‘Spider-Man’ stays at No. 1 in 4th weekend

The glamorous spies of “The 355” were nary contention for the movie theater’s reigning webslinger.

Spider-Man’s container bureau dominance continued successful its 4th play successful theaters, adding different $33 million, according to workplace estimates connected Sunday. With $668.8 cardinal successful North American summons income to date, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is present the sixth highest grossing merchandise of each clip domestically. Globally, with $1.5 cardinal and counting, it ranks successful eighth place.

The lone large caller movie this play was Universal’s “The 355,” an archetypal spy thriller starring Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger and Penelope Cruz, which debuted successful 3rd spot with $4.8 cardinal from 3,145 North American theaters. Directed by Simon Kingberg, reviews for the movie astir a planetary conjugation of pistillate spies person been little than stellar: It holds a 27% connected Rotten Tomatoes.

But the assemblage scores person been much enthusiastic, particularly from women, and astir a 3rd of the attendees this play were implicit 45 — a demographic that has not gone retired to movie theaters overmuch during the pandemic. With a vacation play coming up, Jim Orr, Universal's caput of home distribution, said, “We deliberation we'll person a bully runway.”

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“The 355” came successful down the animated “Sing 2,” besides distributed by Universal, which grossed an estimated $12 cardinal successful its 3rd play successful theaters, bringing its planetary full to $190.8 million.

With omicron cases surging, Hollywood has entered 2022 cautiously. January's biggest caller release, the Spider-Man spinoff “Morbius," was precocious pushed to April.

“There’s a spot of uncertainty successful the marketplace due to the fact that of the omicron variant,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore's elder media analyst. “Studios privation to support their crown jewels and springiness them the top changeable astatine occurrence successful movie theaters. A hold similar that shows they’re not giving up connected the theaters. But studios are precise alert of this marketplace and what the challenges mightiness be.”

And portion January is present destined to beryllium quiescent astatine the container office, Dergarabedian said that Spider-Man has been a “beacon of hope" for the industry.

"It shows that audiences privation to spell backmost to the movie theater," helium said. “We could extremity up having a truly beardown container bureau year, but lone clip volition tell.”

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Estimated summons income for Friday done Sunday astatine U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final home figures volition beryllium released Monday.

1. “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” $33 million.

2. “Sing 2,” $12 million.

3. “The 355,” $4.8 million.

4. “The King's Man,” $3.4 million.

5. “American Underdog,” $2.4 million.

6. “The Matrix Resurrections,” $1.9 million.

7. “West Side Story,” $1.4 million.

8. “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” $1.1 million.

9. “Licorice Pizza,” $1 million.

10. “House of Gucci,” $632,348.

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