If it all your social media feeds right now is fans talking about how awesome Spider-Man: No Way Home was and how much it made, you're not alone. The latest Sony/Disney venture broke and set new pre-pandemic box office records, beating all but 2019's Avengers: Endgame. However, as big as it already was just as the dust settled on its opening weekend at both the local and global box office, it appears that the movie did slightly better than originally thought.
No Way Home sets a high bar for future Spider-Man movies
No Way Home was easily the biggest highlight of 2021 in all of cinema. The promise of the MCU finally exploring the multiverse on the big screen and the return of fan-favorites like Alfred Molina's Otto Octavius and Willem Dafoe's Norman Osborne, among several others, was more than enough to get moviegoers inside theaters, which is exactly what happened.
Just as the theaters closed the past weekend, the earlier reports had No Way Home at third on the all-time opening weekend with $253 million in tow. But, according to Sony (via The Hollywood Reporter), the final numbers are slightly higher than initially believed. Although it's not by much, Sony confirmed that No Way Home earned $260 million at the domestic box office. This means that the final chapter in Tom Holland's initial Peter Parker trilogy now has the third-highest opening weekend of all time, just below Endgame and ahead of 2018's Avengers: Infinity War at $257 million.