‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ records 2nd-highest opening day at $121.5M

(CNN) — Look out, container bureau records. Here comes Spider-Man.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the latest movie successful the Marvel series, notched a massive opening day at the home container bureau Friday by bringing successful $121.5 million, according to its studio, Sony.

That is the second-highest opening time successful container bureau past and besides the highest opening time for the period of December, according to Comscore. And aft a azygous day, the movie already has the the highest grossing opening of immoderate movie during the pandemic.

That full has astir lapped the archetypal projection for the film, which was $130 million. Sony is present saying “No Way Home” could marque $242 cardinal this play domestically.

If “No Way Home” swings to those container bureau heights, it would travel successful close down 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which opened with a $247 cardinal weekend. That would marque “No Way Home,” which stars Tom Holland and Zendaya arsenic Peter Parker and MJ arsenic they conflict villains from crossed the Marvel multiverse, the 4th biggest opening play of each time.

Some manufacture analysts judge the movie could spell adjacent higher arsenic the play progresses.

The projected totals for “No Way Home” truthful acold are singular considering that the movie is opening successful a astir two-year-long pandemic. The movie is racking up pre-pandemic container bureau numbers astatine a clip when the Omicron variant is spreading. In 2020, the movie manufacture experienced one of the worst years ever successful container bureau history.

This twelvemonth has included galore large hits, specified arsenic “A Quiet Place, Part II,” “F9: The Fast Saga” and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” But thing compares to the standard of “No Way Home.”

That’s bully quality for theaters arsenic they effort to find their footing astatine a clip erstwhile bringing successful audiences has been hard to do. It appears that Spider-Man whitethorn person swung successful to prevention theaters conscionable successful time.