Spider-Man: No Way Home Digital Release Sets Record With $42M in First Week
Spider-Man: No Way Home has set itself another record, this time smashing home digital sales records within the first week of release. Easily one of Marvel's most ambitious films since Avengers: Endgame, the joint Sony and Marvel Studios project is already the highest-grossing film of 2021 and the sixth highest-grossing film of all time. It is also expected to break a coveted $800 million domestic US box office record, making it only the third such film to do so after both Endgame and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Featuring Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange, much of No Way Home's success is due, in no small part, to the return of characters from previous iterations of the Spider-Man franchise. Not only did former villains like Jamie Foxx's Electro, Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin, Alfred Molina's Doc Ock, and Rhys Ifans' Lizard find themselves drawn into Tom Holland's universe, but the film also featured the highly anticipated return of both Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire as their respective Spider-Man variants. The film also worked a special cameo appearance of Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock (aka Daredevil) in for good measure.
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An exercise in pure, unabashed fan service, Marvel and Sony's plans for their third collaborative Spider-Man film certainly paid off big. Not only has the film grossed $1.886 billion worldwide, but now Deadline is reporting that the film's recent digital release has resulted in it selling over 2.1 million units in the US within its first week alone. This suggests an approximate US revenue of $42 million within the first seven days of the film being available for purchase.
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