The good news just keeps coming for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”.
The film’s domestic debut weekend estimate has jumped up to $120.5 million – making it the second biggest opening weekend of the year behind only “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” at $146.3 million, and beating out Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” at $118.4 million.
Among all animated domestic openings, the Spider-Verse sequel comes in sixth behind “Incredibles 2” ($182.6M), Mario, “Finding Dory” ($135M), “Frozen 2” ($130.2M) and “Toy Story 4” ($120.9M).
EntTelligence adds over 9 million patrons in the U.S. will see the film this weekend – making it the most attended three-day period for a film since last summer, aside from ‘Mario’.
Worldwide the film has snagged a haul of $208.6 million for its opening weekend – charting well above the $150 million projections of last week. The film’s also doing well in China with a $17.3 million start.
On IMAX, the movie is going very well and again is the second-biggest opening of the year behind ‘Mario’ with a global opening weekend haul of $20 million. That’s the 3rd Highest IMAX Global opening ever for Sony and the 2nd highest Global animation opening ever for IMAX.
The first “Spider-Verse” came in at a total of $384.3 million worldwide, with this sequel now easily on track to surpass it.
Outside of Spidey, “The Little Mermaid” is still doing strong domestically with a 57% second-weekend drop to a three-day haul of $40.6 million. Overseas it earned a further $42 million, bringing its worldwide total to $326 million.
“The Boogeyman” is coming in third with $12.3 million domestically and a further $7.7 million overseas for a $20 million worldwide total.
“Fast X” made $9.2 million domestically and $41.4 million internationally in its third weekend – drops of 60% and 52% respectively – which has brought its worldwide total to $603 million thus far. The title is expected to hit U.S. PVOD platforms on Friday.
In speciality release, Celine Song’s “Past Lives” snagged over $58,000 per screen across four screens – the second-biggest limited opening of the year so far, behind only “Beau Is Afraid” at $80,000. Both are A24 releases.
Source: Deadline
