‘Spider-Man’ soars with $185.1M
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By Jake Coyle
NEW YORK (AP) — It pays to have
one of the biggest lead-ins ever.
“Spider-Man: Far From Home,” the
first Marvel movie after “Avengers:
Endgame,” swung past any franchise
fatigue to dominate the July Fourth
holiday weekend, raking in an estimated
$185.1 million since opening Tuesday
and earning $93.6 million from Friday
to Sunday in North American theaters.
The opening gave Sony Pictures one
of its best weeks ever. “Far From Home,”
which opened overseas before landing
in the U.S., has grossed $580 million
worldwide in 10 days of release.
It also came with an assist from
Disney’s Marvel Studios, which has
partnered with Sony on this and its
last two “Spider-Man” releases: 2017’s
“Spider-Man: Homecoming” and last
year’s animated spinoff “Spider-Man:
Into the Spider-Verse.”
Though “Far From Home” fell short
of the $117 million Friday to Sunday
domestic opening of “Homecoming,” its
unconventional Tuesday opening paid
off. The film’s $39.3 million opening
day set a record for any movie on a
Tuesday.
To help whet the appetites of Marvel
fans — and to approach the record
$2.79 billion gross of “Avatar” — Disney
re-released `”Endgame’’ in theaters the
weekend ahead of “Far From Home.”
Part of the draw of the film, starring
Tom Holland as Spider-Man and Jake
Gyllenhaal as Mysterio, was seeing the
first installment in a new chapter of the
Marvel Cinematic Universe. (“Endgame’’
still narrowly trails “Avatar,’’ unadjusted
for inflation, with $2.77 billion.)
The strong performance of “Far
From Home,” which cost approximately
$160 million to produce, along with
the sustained interest in holdovers like
“Toy Story 4,’’ “Yesterday,’’ “Annabelle
Comes Home’’ and “Aladdin,’’ helped
the industry knock down the deficit
compared with this time last year about
a percentage point.
Due in part to a number of
underperforming sequels including
“Godzilla: King of Monsters’’ and ``Men
in Black International,’’ the year is
running 8.4 percent behind last year.
But Marvel has been immune to the
ups and downs of sequel making _
it’s behind the year’s top two films:
“Endgame” and “Captain Marvel.’’
Paul Dergarabedian, senior media
analyst for Comscore, thinks “Far From
Home’’ may have turned the tide.
“This movie was exactly the shot in the
arm the summer needed, emotionally
and spiritually if not financially,’’ said
Dergarabedian, who noted the weekend
overall was roughly equal to the same
timeframe last year. “The whole notion
of franchise fatigue, while true in some
cases, is not in all. When movies aren’t
great, that’s when people get fatigued.’’
Perhaps just as cheering for the
industry is how well a number of films
are holding.
After two weeks atop the box office,
“Toy Story 4” slid a modest 43 percent
to second place, with $34.3 million. It
has now taken in $650 million globally.
Universal Pictures’ Beatles-themed
romantic comedy “Yesterday’’ dropped
only 37 percent in its second weekend,
with $10.8 million.
The Warner Bros. “Conjuring”
spinoff sequel “Annabelle Comes Home’’
snagged $10.8 million in its second
weekend. And Disney’s “Aladdin,’’ with
$7.6 million in its seventh week of
release, has accumulated $921.7 million
worldwide.
Jake Gyllenhaal, left, and Tom Holland in a scene from “Spider-Man: Far
From Home.” Jay Maidment / Columbia Pictures / Sony via Associated Press
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