Spider-Man: No Way Home Global Box Office Set To Hit $1 Billion Tomorrow

Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s box office will officially pass $1 billion worldwide tomorrow. The highly-anticipated Phase 4 entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe finally hit theaters last weekend to great acclaim. Spider-Man: No Way Home is a celebration of 20 years of the web-slinger’s big-screen stories, as Tom Holland’s Peter Parker fought villains from past Spider-Man movies. Despite some hesitation that the sequel could be too crowded, Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s glowing reviews and many secrets propelled the film to a massive opening.

Box office experts long predicted that the MCU movie could dominate theaters around the world once it finally arrived, and they were right. Spider-Man: No Way Home posted the second-biggest opening weekend of all time, passing Avengers: Infinity War. The movie hasn’t slowed down since then, as it quickly climbed up box office charts for all 2021 releases. It surpassed the totals of Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Eternals within days. The incredible performance put the $1 billion mark squarely within reach for Spider-Man: No Way Home, which hasn’t been done since before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Sony officially announced new box office totals for Spider-Man: No Way Home after a full week in theaters around the world. The movie earned another $29.3 million on Thursday domestically, bringing its seven-day gross to $385.8 million, and another $32.2 million internationally, bringing its overseas cume to $490.2 million. With a total box office haul of $876.0 million heading into Christmas Eve, Sony reports that Spider-Man: No Way Home will pass the $1 billion milestone on Christmas Day. The movie becomes the second-fastest film to make $1 billion at 11 days, putting it only behind Avengers: Endgame (five days).

The box office performance of Spider-Man: No Way Home is incredibly impressive considering the state of movie theaters otherwise. It is the first blockbuster to truly perform as well as pre-pandemic titles, and it should dwarf all other major Hollywood releases when its theatrical run is over. Spider-Man: No Way Home is projected to become the highest-grossing movie of 2021 worldwide, a title that currently belongs to the Chinese film The Battle at Lake Changjin ($902 million), by the end of Christmas Eve. Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s performance is all the more impressive considering it is dominating without a Chinese release.

When Spider-Man: No Way Home earns $1 billion, it will become the 49th movie of all time and the 10th MCU movie to do it. It should have no trouble becoming the highest-grossing Spider-Man movie ever at this rate too, as Spider-Man: Far From Home‘s record $1.13 billion is well within reach. The film will also be the first movie to make more than $1B since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in December 2019. With Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s success already assured, all that is left to see is what projects Sony announces as a result and how high the movie climbs on the all-time charts.