Ant-Man 3, Shazam 2 and The Flash all flopped hard this year, making it easy enough for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to blast right past them on its way up the year's box office charts. Now it has, coming four weeks after Guardians of the Galaxy, managed to nose ahead of it, with $357,648,000 in the till as against Guardians' $357,577,000.
Expect Spider-Man, which pulled in $8 million this past weekend (as against Guardians of the Galaxy 3's $1 million), to continue extending its lead, perhaps by a considerable margin. Where Guardians of the Galaxy 3, after displaying impressive staying power, especially in later weeks, seems bound to sputter out just a little north of $360 million, Spider-Man seems a safe bet for the vicinity of $380 million even in the event of week-to-week drops in the range of 50 percent--and should the drops be more like those of last week's 30.5 percent, get up near $400 million before finishing out.
Especially given the shaky prospects of Captain Marvel 2 and Aquaman 2 later this year it seems to me the movie has a pretty good chance of still holding the #1 crown at the end of the year in the domestic market (though in the international market, where Guardians of the Galaxy 3 has taken in almost 70 percent more than Spider-Man, Star-Lord and friends will still have that title).
* As of this past weekend Guardians of the Galaxy 3 had grossed $482 million internationally, as against Spider-Man's $284 million--interest in that movie not quite catching internationally the way it did domestically (even if the gross there, too, is still an improvement over that of the first animated Spider-Man movie).
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