Box Office: 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Zoom Past $1 Billion
Mumbai, December 26 - "Spider-Man: No Way Home" is keeping its eye on history after zooming past a coveted $1 billion mark at the global box office over the Christmas weekend, becoming the first to reach the milestone since 2019's "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" ($1.073 billion in December 2019).## Till Friday, "No Way Home" scored around $920 million globally and will spend Christmas Day swinging past the $1 billion mark. It becomes the 49th film to go past $1 billion worldwide grosses and the biggest grosser of 2021, going past China's "The Battle at Lake Changjin" ($904M). The Spider-Man film is doing it without getting released in China, which is the biggest movie market in the world at the moment. ## "No Way Home" is only the fifth film to achieve the $1 billion global box office without China. In the past, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" ($1.06B in 2006), "The Dark Knight" ($1B in 2008), "Alice in Wonderland" ($1.02B in 2010), and "Joker" ($1.07B in 2019) were able to score these rare feet. ## The finale of Tom Holland's first Spider-Man trilogy has already become the top-grossing domestic title of Sony Pictures, passing the $402 million unadjusted domestic cume of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. There are a few more box office records that are looking inevitable the way "No Way Home" is performing.## The next target for "No Way Home" will be to become the biggest box office grosser since "Frozen 2" ($1.074 billion in November 2019). It will be the biggest Spider-Man movie ever and Sony's biggest grosser ever once it passes $1.131 billion. And once it passes Black Panther's $1.347 billion total, it will be the biggest solo superhero movie of all time.## Stay tuned...
