The public around the world is caught in its web.
Spider-Man: No Way Home
,
the third installment in Marvel's New York superhero cinematic adventures, put on a monstrous performance, pocketing nearly $ 253 million in revenue in the United States and Canada.
That is a total of 587.2 million internationally, during its opening weekend, Sony announced in a statement on Sunday.
Figures that propel the new feature film Spider-Man to the rank of third best start in the history of cinema.
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Behind
Avengers: Endgame
and
Avengers: Infinity War
,
the new
Spider-Man
film
thus delights the place held until then by
The Force Awakens,
the first
Star Wars
directed by JJ Abrams and released in 2015. Such figures also make up
Spider-Man: No Way Home is
the most thunderous startup in Sony Pictures history.
A phenomenal success, while the current wave of the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 could raise fears of an underperformance of the film.
And while the film has not yet been released in China, where its possible release still hangs by a thread.
Witchcraft and
"multiverse"
"The historic results that come from this first weekend of
Spider-Man: No Way Home
broadcast
to the four corners of the world, despite the current context, confirm the cultural strike force that films released exclusively can still have. in theaters, ”
said Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman on Sunday.
A sign of the extraordinary expectation that surrounded the film for several months, the first images of the feature film had already broken audience records this summer, becoming in the space of 24 hours the most viewed trailer in the world.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
: a superhero in all his forms
The latest installment in the adventures of the juvenile Avenger played by Tom Holland,
Spider-Man: No Way Home
pits the young hero against the backlash of sudden celebrity. Harassed on all sides since his secret identity was uncovered, and eager to spend a quiet romance with his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya), Peter Parker asks the wizard Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to make the world forget that he is Spiderman. A spell failed later, Spider-Man is faced with unsuspected dangers from parallel Marvel universes - the
"Multiverse
.
"
Figures incidentally already known from the old
Spider-Man
films
, to the delight of nostalgic spectators.
Since its release this week, the film directed by Jon Watts - already at the helm of the two previous sections - has garnered rather favorable reviews, both internationally and in France.
In his review for
Le Figaro
, Olivier Delcroix thus hailed a
“smart blockbuster”: “We are pleased to find this touch of impertinence that blew in the first
Spider-Man
signed
Sam Raimi
.
Something to charm all audiences as Christmas approaches. ”
Given the resounding success of this December blockbuster, the end of the year holidays are probably coming a little early for Sony Pictures.
