Spidey shines bright

Spider-Man: No Way Home crosses $600 million in North America

Hollywood star Tom Holland’s Spider-Man: No Way Home towered over domestic box-office charts for the third weekend in a row.

No Way Home minted $52.7 million over the New Year’s holiday frame, boosting its domestic tally to $609 million.

It extends an epic streak for the latest Spidey adventure as the lone blockbuster to deliver the kind of ticket sales it would have been expected to make in pre-pandemic times.

It now ranks as the 10th-highest grossing domestic release in history, supplanting Disney’s Incredibles 2 ($608 million).

Spider-Man: No Way Home currently has its sights on spots eight and nine, Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($620 million) and The Avengers ($623 million).

Globally, Spider-Man: No Way Home has grossed $1.37 billion, passing 2018’s Black Panther ($1.34 billion) to become the 12th biggest film in history. International ticket sales have accounted for a bulk of that haul, with overseas revenues at $759 million. —IANS