No Way Home’s opening weekend swinging toward massive $190-$250M

Spider-Man No Way Home is swinging toward a massive opening weekend at the box office. According to Box Office Pro, Spider-Man: No Way Home is expected to earn between $190-250 million domestically in its opening weekend. To begin, pre-sales for the film have been outstanding. Well, that’s if you ignore people selling their tickets on eBay or fighting each other at theaters just to see the movie during its opening weekend. Be that as it may, tickets for Spider-Man: No Way Home are selling like Aunt May’s wheat cakes, setting up one of the biggest box office returns of the pandemic era.

While films like F9, No Time to Die, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings have all fared well against Covid restrictions, Spider-Man: No Way Home is inspiring people to flock to the theater because it stands to change the Marvel Cinematic Universe forever. For real this time. You see, Spider-Man: No Way Home comes packed with a multiverse storyline that includes characters from previous Spider-Man film series. Given that Marvel has already started the multiverse madness with What If…? and Loki on Disney+, it’s only a matter of time before cross-pollination comes to both sides of the fence.

To put things in perspective, advanced ticket sales for Spider-Man: No Way Home are outpacing those for Avengers: Endgame. You recall how big of a deal that movie was, right? Now imagine Spider-Man being bigger than that. Maybe now we can fully grasp why Sony has kept an iron grip on the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler instead of selling him to the House of Mouse.

Even at $190 million in box office receipts, Spider-Man: No Way Home would still be the biggest opening for a Spider-Man movie ever. That’s way more money than Spider-Man 3, which banked $151.1M in 2007. Also, when compared to the latest Spider-Man trilogy, we find Spider-Man: Homecoming opening with $117M, and Spider-Man: Far From Home grossing $92.5 million.

In looking at the overall numbers for the year, no film has earned $100 million domestically during its opening weekend. Venom: Let There Be Carnage came close with $90 million, but it’s about $10 million short of what we’re looking for. I think a major reason as to why tickets for Spider-Man: Far From Home are going faster than Sonic the Hedgehog after five shots of espresso are because the movie welcomes back several characters from previous films like Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock, Jamie Foxx’s Electro, and Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin. Plus, rumors of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield swinging back into action are running rampant. Some would say this movie is too ambitious, and it will be a miracle if Sony and Marvel can pull it off. We’ll certainly be there when it drops to make our own opinions, and I’m sure you will too.