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New Spider-Man Film Breaks Box Office Records in Historic Moment for Box Office Recovery

The film's success comes as the rapidly spreading omicron variant causes lockdowns and closures in Europe and the U.S.

Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home is celebrating a record-breaking box office debut with the third highest grossing domestic box office opening of all time. The film earned $253 million from 4,336 theaters in the U.S during its debut. Overseas, the film grossed $334.2 million. The film’s global total sits at $587.2 million, the No. 3 global opening ever – all amid rising concerns and closures from the rapidly spreading omicron variant.

No Way Home marks a historic moment for Hollywood and box office recovery, as the first film to gross more than $100 million in its domestic launch since the onset of the pandemic. The film has also grossed more than any pandemic-era release, easily beating out Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings at $224.5 million.

Marvel latest smash hit theaters on the same weekend that Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, aimed at adults racked up a disappointing $3 million opening weekend despite its A-list cast, and as sales for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story fell by 67 percent on its second weekend in theaters.