'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Tops Box Office And Nears $850 Million Worldwide - Forbes

'Spider-Man: Far From Home'

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Spider-Man: Far From Home earned a solid $45.3 million in its second weekend of domestic release, dropping a reasonable 51% from its $92.6 million Fri-Sun frame. Now that is actually a bigger fall than similar “big” Wednesday or Tuesday openers like Amazing Spider-Man (-44%), Batman Begins (-45%), Transformers (-47%) and Spider-Man 2 (-48%). That said, it was a better hold, relatively speaking, than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (-62%), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (-52%) and Transformers: The Last Knight (-61%). And we’re still talking about a movie that has earned $274.529 million in ten days of domestic release.

So even while I may have hoped for/expected slightly sturdier legs, this is still a solid performance. The big question going forward, to the extent that it matters for a movie that has already earned $847 million worldwide (more on that in a moment), is whether it gets pounced by The Lion King, pounced again by Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and then again by Hobbs & Shaw. It’s possible that The Lion King hurts Far From Home as badly in its third weekend (-68%) as did The Dark Knight Rises did to Amazing Spider-Man in 2012.

This isn’t quite an apples-to-apples comparison. It’s just as likely that these four very different biggies, a superhero sequel, a mega-bucks animated remake, an R-rated event movie with movie stars and marquee directors and a star-driven franchise spin-off action movie, will thrive concurrently between now and Labor Day. Nonetheless, Spider-Man: Far From Home could be just over/under $300 million domestic by the time The Lion King even opens, so the only thing at stake is pride and whether or not the $160 million Sony flick can top Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’s $404 million domestic total.

 If that happens, it’ll be Sony’s biggest, sans inflation, domestic grosser ever. And with $572.5 million overseas, it is the biggest Spider-Man movie ever in unadjusted foreign box office, passing Spider-Man 3's $555 million overseas cume. It will soon pass Spider-Man: Homecoming ($881 million in 2017) and Spider-Man 3 ($890 million in 2007 sans 3-D) to become the biggest Spidey flick ever. At this point, $1 billion is a near-foregone conclusion and passing the $1.108 billion cume of Skyfall (in 2012, sans 3-D) seems probable as well. If that happens, it’ll be Sony’s biggest global grosser of all time.

The superhero sequel, which is as much a teen comedy as an action flick, could thrive as a consensus pick or second choice among large groups of moviegoers who want to see a “big” movie but aren’t in the mood for a Fast & Furious flick, a Tarantino joint or an animated flick. Most of the May and June biggies are mostly played out, leaving only Spider-Man, the next three weeks of biggies and counter-programming like Yesterday and Annabelle Comes Home as viable competition. So, yeah, whatever the opposite of “Peter Parker luck” is, Far From Home’s got it thus far.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/07/14/spider-man-far-from-home-avengers-marvel-lion-king-hobbs-shaw-tarantino-holland-zendaya-gyllenhaal-box-office/

2019-07-14 15:02:10Z
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