Actor Tom Holland-starrer Spider-Man: No Way Home topped New Year's Eve box office charts earning $15.4 million on Friday to send its domestic haul to a mighty $572.6 million.
Its performance caps a strong year for its distributor, Sony Pictures, which also scored commercially with the likes of Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Venom: Let There Be Carnage. The film's runaway success is welcome news to the exhibition industry, which is still struggling to come back after COVID upended the theatrical landscape.
Omicron, the highly contagious variant that is leading to record cases of the virus in the US, may prove to be another setback for the business, but so far it hasn't diminished interest in Spidey's adventures in the meta-verse.
Look for Spider-Man: No Way Home to add another $48 million to its bounty this weekend. That should push the film's stateside gross to over $615 million and enable it to supplant Incredibles 2 to become the 10th highest-grossing domestic release in history. Universal and Illumination's Sing 2 continued to do reasonably well over the holidays, picking up $6.4 million to push its total to a respectable (for a pandemic) $76.4 million. The family film should generate $19.5 million over the weekend.
Disney and 20th Century Studios West Side Story continued to struggle at the box office, earning $700,000 to push its domestic gross to $28.2 million. That's a terrible result given that the film has earned rave reviews and cost $100 million to produce. IANS
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