Spider-Man: No Way Home Becomes 3rd Movie Ever To Earn Over $800M in US
Spider-Man: No Way Home is now the third film in cinema history to have passed the $800 million mark in the domestic box office. The film, which hit theaters on December 21, 2021 and is still playing in theaters, is the third entry in the MCU's Spider-Man trilogy following the introduction of Tom Holland's iteration of the character in 2016's Captain America: Civil War. It follows Peter Parker asking Doctor Strange to cast a spell that makes people forget his secret identity, accidentally causing a rift in the multiverse that forces him to combat villains from previous Spider-Man universes, including Lizard and Electro from Andrew Garfield's Amazing Spider-Man films plus Sandman, Doc Ock, and Green Goblin from Tobey Maguire's 2002 Spider-Mantrilogy.
The mega-hit blockbuster has been breaking box office records, even compared to big pre-pandemic releases, since its opening day. In addition to becoming the first film in the pandemic era to cross $1 billion, it has topped 6 weekends since its release and remained in the top 3 for most of the weeks that a new release claimed the top spot, in addition to steadily climbing the charts of the highest-grossing domestic films of all time. It recently passed James Cameron's 2010 blockbuster Avatar to hit #3 on that list.
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Per The Wrap, Spider-Man: No Way Home just crossed yet another milestone. This weekend, which also included the 100th day the film has been in theaters, No Way Home's box office total crept up by $1.7 million, bringing it past the $800 million mark domestically. It is now the third film to have ever crossed that threshold, and that gargantuan number is less than half of its overall worldwide gross,
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