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'Spider-Man' continues lifting an anemic N.America box office

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Spiderman" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/entertainment/11/17/spider-man-no-way-home-2.jpg"/></figure></div><p>LOS ANGELES - After rescuing Hollywood from otherwise paltry year-end numbers, &quot;Spider-Man: No Way Home&quot; continued to soar this weekend, leading the North American box office with an estimated take of $33 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.</p><p>Sony&#x27;s superhero sequel has now accumulated worldwide ticket sales of $1.42 billion in four weeks out, helping brighten a mostly pallid picture for the Covid-slammed industry. Its domestic gross of $669 million places it sixth all-time, surpassing &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;Jurassic World.&quot;</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/12/27/21/spider-man-no-way-home-earns-1-billion-globally">&#x27;Spider-Man: No Way Home&#x27; earns $1 billion globally</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/01/09/22/review-spider-man-no-way-home-fulfills-fans-fantasies">Movie review: &#x27;Spider-Man: No Way Home&#x27; fulfills fans&#x27; fantasies</a></li></ul><p>The domestic box office in November and December was down 32 percent from the 2019 period, said David Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. He described the industry&#x27;s overall picture as &quot;mostly wreckage&quot; -- except for &quot;Spider-Man,&quot; whose earnings accounted for 46 percent of the total.</p><p>With Covid-19 surging, older moviegoers and families remain hesitant to return to theaters.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Spider-man" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/entertainment/12/14/snh_intl_1sht_tsr_posed.jpg"/></figure></div><p>So even the results of Universal&#x27;s animated musical &quot;Sing 2&quot; -- second for the weekend at $12 million -- were considered disappointing. Its worldwide take is down 68 percent from &quot;Sing 1,&quot; Gross said, whereas such second-episode animation sequels generally drop just 8 percent.</p><p>Also seen as disappointing were the results for Universal&#x27;s new &quot;The 355,&quot; which placed third but took in just $4.8 million for the Friday-to-Sunday period.</p><p>Analysts said the female-led spy thriller -- starring Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz and Lupita Nyong&#x27;o -- suffered from weak reviews and continuing hesitation by older female moviegoers.</p><p>Fourth spot went to 20th Century&#x27;s &quot;The King&#x27;s Man,&quot; at $3.3 million. The &quot;Kingsman&quot; prequel stars Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans and Matthew Goode.</p><p>In fifth was &quot;American Underdog&quot; from Lionsgate, at $2.4 million. Zachary Levi stars in the crowd-pleasing true story of Kurt Warner, the onetime grocery store worker who became a National Football League MVP.</p><p>Rounding out the top 10 were:</p><p>&quot;The Matrix: Resurrections&quot; ($1.9 million)</p><p>&quot;West Side Story&quot; ($1.4 million)</p><p>&quot;Ghostbusters: Afterlife&quot; ($1.1 million)</p><p>&quot;Licorice Pizza&quot; ($1 million)</p><p>&quot;House of Gucci&quot; ($632,000)</p><p>bbk/mlm</p><p>© Agence France-Presse</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1888740" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><div class="iwantbar"> </div>

'Spider-Man: No Way Home' continued to soar this weekend, leading the North American box office with an estimated take of $33 million.