When the last Marvel movie, AVENGERS: ENDGAME, came out in April it immediately started demolishing records at the box office, so it makes sense that the newest movie, SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, would break a few itself. After hitting theaters everywhere yesterday the latest movie from Sony and Marvel (starring Tom Holland as the title web-slinger) got everyone to the theaters at the start of the week to help propel Spidey to officially have the best Tuesday debut ever with $39 million.
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The number tops the previous record-holder for the best Tuesday opener ever, which was another Spider-Man movie in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone) back in 2012, which made $35 million, on to a $137 million six-day frame. This is an excellent start going into what should be a busy Fourth of July week, with analysts putting the most recent estimates at anywhere between $125-150 million for the six-day frame.
Driving audiences to the theaters for this outing is the unique fact that it follows Marvel’s biggest movie ever, ENDGAME, with this one picking up after the death of Peter Parker/Spider-Man’s mentor, Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.). This element has been heavily teased in promotional material, and audiences being eager to see how this movie handles that one’s aftermath is a driving factor for business. On top of that, there’s just the same love for Spider-Man audiences have shown again and again, like when HOMECOMING made $117 million its opening weekend back in 2017, or even the animated INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE making $190 million domestically late 2018-early 2019. What I’m saying is it’s good to be Spider-Man at the box office.
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The other major movie opening up today is A24’s recent horror flick, MIDSOMMAR, from director Ari Aster and starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor and Will Poulter. The movie pulled in $1 million from late shows last night and it’s expected to pull in about $8-10 million today, even if current audience reception is not as glowing as the critic reviews (which is to be expected). Of course, coming out smushed between SPIDER-MAN and the recent hit TOY STORY 4 means it will have to ride off solely its “alternate content” appeal and cinephile interest.
After a few weeks of less-than-stellar box office performances, everything has been looking up with the release of TOY STORY 4 at the end of June, and now going into this week everything should be picking up more as everything gets a holiday boost and another huge movie entering the space. Spidey should look to come out on top once again and should hold that place until a certain band of CGI animals comes over the horizon two weeks from now.
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME and MIDSOMMAR are in theaters now!