LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) — Without any new main releases, Sony’s rerelease of Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios’ superhero movie “Spider-Man: No Way Home” reclaimed the highest spot at North American field workplace with an estimated three-day complete of 6 million U.S. {dollars}, based on studio figures launched by measurement agency Comscore on Sunday.
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” as soon as dominated North American field workplace on its debut weekend with over 253 million {dollars} in December 2021. The movie has grossed 810.79 million {dollars} in North America so far.
Based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, the movie within the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the sequel to 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and 2019’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home.”
Directed by Jon Watts, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is the third Tom Holland-led Spider-Man movie. The prolonged model of the movie was launched this weekend to theaters with 11 minutes of latest footage.
Disney may also rerelease James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi epic “Avatar” in theaters later this month.
“Rereleases are nothing new in the industry, especially when it comes to major anniversary milestones for popular and iconic features,” commented CNBC in a current report, noting that the timing of Disney and Sony’s rereleases comes because the North American field workplace ticket gross sales are down 30 p.c from 2019, and there have been 30 p.c fewer motion pictures launched in theaters.
“Movie theaters and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad end-of-summer continues at the box office,” mentioned Variety, a high Hollywood commerce publication, including that Sony has well taken benefit of the desolate moviegoing panorama with the rerelease.