It certainly seems like December’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home”If it doesn’t, this film is likely to be the biggest of the year. The biggest.
Advanced tickets for the Columbia Pictures/Marvel Studios sequel went on sale Monday and in just two hours, the film broke the record for Fandango’s best first day of presales in 2021, besting the July Disney/Marvel Studios release “Black Widow.”
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” also scored the biggest first-day advance ticket sales on Fandango since 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,”This film would set the record for the largest opening weekend ever with $357 million.
This number seems impossible to reach. “No Way Home”Hollywood is still reeling from the pandemic, and a new COVID variant emerged. However, all indications point to the Tom Holland-directed sequel securing a strong box office going into the holidays. Domestically, the current record holder for highest grossing film of the year is Disney/Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”With $224 Million
Jon Watts directed the film. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is a follow-up to 2019’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home” and finds Holland’s Peter Parker dealing with the fallout of being outed to the world as Spider-Man. He seeks Doctor Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) help in making the world forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, but when a spell goes wrong, villains from alternate universes begin pouring into Parker’s world.
Holland is now in touch with characters from the past. “Spider-Man” movies like Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock from 2004’s Sam Raimi sequel “Spider-Man 2” and Jamie Foxx’s Electro from 2014’s “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,”The film starred Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, respectively.
Rumours are circulating that the Spider-Men of the past may also be appearing in the multiverse-spanning. “No Way Home,” but fans won’t know for sure until the film hits theaters on Dec. 17. Zendaya and Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei are also included in the cast.