With tickets going on sale yesterday, Spider-Man: No Way Home is already breaking records by pulling in the most first-day ticket sales since Avengers: Endgame. The third entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's take on Spider-Man is gearing up to be one of the (if not the) biggest films of 2021, and of the overall pandemic era. The film will bring together different iterations of the Spider-Man franchise, as the live-action Spider-verse collides and crosses over numerous characters from previous films. Villains from both the Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield films have already been featured in No Way Home's marketing, and many speculate that the two former Spider-Men will also appear in the film.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is expected to be the highest-grossing film of the year, but box office numbers still aren't nearly back to what they were pre-pandemic. Currently, the biggest film of the year domestically is Marvel Studios' Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, sitting at $224 million with a total gross of $431 million globally. As far as opening weekends go, the Spider-Man-adjacent Venom: Let There Be Carnage boasts the largest in the U.S. with $90 million. Though both films performed well considering the circumstances, they did not make nearly the amount they would've in a world without COVID-19. Spider-Man: No Way Home, however, is teeing up to be the biggest film since 2019.

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In its first two hours of ticket sales alone, Spider-Man: No Way Home became Fandango's highest first-day tickets seller since Avengers: Endgame in May of 2019. Not only did No Way Home exceed the likes of other 2021 competitors such as Black WidowF9, Shang-Chi, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage in day-one presales, but it even surpassed the likes of its own predecessor Spider-Man: Far From Home and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Ticket sites across the internet crashed on Monday when tickets for the film went online. Fans rushed to secure their seats, and some even sold their No Way Home tickets on Ebay for as much as $25,000.

MJ looking scared and Spider-Man in Spider-Man No Way Home

Ticket sales already being this strong serves as a good indicator that Tom Holland's third Spider-Man flick will do bonkers business at the box office. Early tracking indicates that No Way Home could open between $135-185 million. An opening weekend that big would blow Venom's previous pandemic record out of the water and potentially match The Rise of Skywalker's $177M opening in 2019. This would be fantastic news for executives at both Marvel and Sony, as producer Amy Pascal confirmed yesterday that three more Spider-Man films starring Tom Holland and set in the MCU are being developed.

Everyone has been expecting Spider-Man: No Way Home to be a big hit, but now that actual numbers for the film are starting to come out, it's suddenly feeling more real. Hollywood and movie theaters have spent the last nearly two years trying to get the box office back to where it was, and No Way Home's performance so far is a great sign. It bodes well for the 2022 slate of releases, which includes the likes of Sony's next project, Morbius, and a variety of big MCU releases such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessThor: Love and Thunder, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. A good box office showing from Spider-Man: No Way Home wouldn't just be good news for studio executives, though - it'd also be good news for movie fans overall, who have grown tired of films getting delayed for the last two years.

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Source: Fandango

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