To think that a year at this time, exhibition was on its knees and a franchise film like Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman 1984 couldn’t even open because several markets were down, including box office capitals NYC and LA (not to mention the day-and-date HBO Max of it all). Wherever Spider-Man: No Way Home lands, it’s already the gift that keeps on giving. By 4:30PM, there was only one seat left at the new AMC Porter Ranch’s Dolby auditorium for a 7:30PM show, however, three seats surfaced at the Regal Valencia Imax, which had its 7:50PM show filled to the brim. Earlier today, when I was booking tickets for a prime evening show (in either Imax, Dolby or PLF), it appeared unlikely as Fandango kept timing out. Among all Sundays, Spider-Man: No Way Home looks to rank third behind Avengers: Endgame ($90.3M) and Avengers: Infinity War ($69.2M), and ahead of Star Wars: Force Awakens ($60.55M).Īnecdotally speaking, I went to see Spider-Man: No Way Home tonight at a multiplex 28 miles north of Hollywood. On the lower end, that keeps Spider-Man: No Way Home as the 3rd highest domestic opening of all-time, but with roughly $58K cash less than Infinity War‘s debut. While Sony reported this morning that the Jon Watts-directed movie would be down 22% today from Saturday’s $73.8M with $57.35M, we’re hearing from industry sources that No Way Home is off between -12% to -16% today from Saturday, which would mean a range of $61.99M to $64.94M. Regal Cinemas Imax in Valencia, CA tonight at the ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ 7:50pm show. We’ll wait for Sony to officially call the new record in the morning, but it looks very promising. Infinity War opened in the final weekend of April 2018 to $257.698M. SUNDAY LATE PM UPDATE: Given the Sunday night estimates we’re hearing for Spider-Man: No Way Home, it looks as though the Sony/Marvel movie is on the verge of overtaking Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War as the second best domestic box office opening of all-time with $257.64M-$260.6M. AMC theatre inĪt the time of the update of this report (8:16AM) AMC shares were at $28.50, -2.1%. “We commend our friends at Sony Pictures and Marvel on their wonderfully successful movie, which millions of people have already watched at a U.S. “Historically, December is one of the biggest months of the year for major blockbuster releases, so to see Spider-Man: No Way Home set a new all-time opening weekend box office record this month is significant not just for AMC, but for the entire theatrical industry,” beamed Adam Aron, AMC Chairman and CEO. AMC Prime was dominant this weekend and it was the second biggest ever for Dolby Cinema at AMC and the fourth biggest weekend for IMAX at AMC. Sunday’s domestic attendance finished at 1M+, repping the first time that AMC has sold at least 1M tickets each day Thursday through Sunday since December 2019 when Rise of Skywalker opened. More than 2M people watched a movie at an AMC location around the world on Saturday, which is the most tickets sold in a single day since Christmas day, 2019 for the chain. over the last four days for the movie, 7M for its global locations throughout Europe and the Middle East. The Sony/Marvel sequel is easily the biggest December opening of all time for the circuit and set a new post-reopening domestic attendance records on Thursday, then broke that record on Friday, and then broke that record again on Saturday. 1 theater chain AMC says this morning that 5M tickets were sold in the U.S. While box office analytics firm EntTelligence counted 20M people who watched No Way Home stateside over the weekend, the No. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ snaps away ‘Infinity War’ to become 2nd biggest opening of all-time at domestic box office. This just gives you an idea of how much money Spider-Man: No Way Home stands to make. Still, there’s a ton of cash to be made here by Spider-Man: No Way Home. Between the Monday after its opening weekend and the end of their given years, 2015’s Force Awakens made $404M over the holidays, 2016’s Star Wars: Rogue One made $253.2M, 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi grossed $297.2M while 2019’s Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker did $213.4M. However, that was a sequel to a long-awaited movie, an anomaly, and Force Awakens had a quite a long tail at the box office, a 3.8x multiple off its $247.96M opening. We excitedly comped Spider-Man: No Way Home to Star Wars: Force Awakens earlier in our coverage. No doubt, Spider-Man: No Way Home will be robust over the holidays. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Soars To $114M Overseas In Two Days: International Box Office SonyĬomscore reports that 65% K-12 and 83% colleges are off today, numbers that will grow to 100% off for both starting on Friday, Christmas Eve and through the rest of the year.
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