The latest instalment of the Spider-Man franchise has become the first pandemic-era movie to make more than $1bn (\u00a3750m) at the global box office.<\/p>\n
Spider-Man: No Way Home also took the title of highest-grossing film of 2021.<\/p>\n
It beat out Chinese-made Korean War epic The Battle of Lake Changjin, which has grossed almost $905m worldwide.<\/p>\n
The last movie to gross more than $1bn was 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, according to media data analytics firm Comscore.<\/p>\n
No other Hollywood production has come near to reaching that box office milestone since the pandemic began two years ago.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, global box office takings for the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film reached $1.05bn.<\/p>\n
The co-production between Sony and Disney hit its milestone just two weeks after its release even as the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has spread rapidly around the world, raising fresh concerns about indoor events.<\/p>\n
The film has not been released in China, which is currently the world’s biggest cinema market.<\/p>\n
Spider-Man: No Way Home sees Tom Holland return as the third iteration of Peter Parker alongside Zendaya’s MJ and Benedict Cumberbatch as the sorcerer Doctor Strange.<\/p>\n
The instalment’s 2019 offering Spider-Man: Far From Home was the first Spider-Man film to break the $1bn mark at the box office and is currently the highest-grossing movie in the franchise with $1.132bn in global ticket sales, according to Comscore.<\/p>\n
The latest film follows on from Far From Home, in which the villainous Mysterio unmasked Parker before dying.<\/p>\n
The series is a collaboration between the Disney’s Marvel Studios and Sony.<\/p>\n
In 2015, Disney, Marvel Studios, and Sony agreed to share the film rights for Spider-Man, which led to a new iteration of the character being introduced and integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n
Before No Way Home, MGM’s latest James Bond movie No Time to Die, which made $774m at the box office globally, was the highest-grossing Hollywood film of both 2021 and the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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