Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Swinging In As Sony’s Second Best Domestic Opening Ever

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Spider-Man: Homecoming is poised to become the second-highest domestic opening ever for Sony with a three-day gross that’s between $125 million-$127 million per industry estimates as of this morning at 4,348 theaters. That’s easily the second-best stateside start for the webslinger superhero in his six-title canon.
The film, starring Tom Holland as the titular wall-crawler, webbed $50.5 million as of yesterday — that includes the $15.4 million tally from Thursday night previews. Earlier predictions from the studio gauged the cumulative weekend gross around $80 million. If this new trajectory holds steady, it will out gross most of the other Spider-Man movies.
Homecoming will rank under Spider-Man 3‘s $151.1M opening and above the original 2002 title which solidified the first weekend of May as the start of summer with a FSS of $114.8M. Given how young the movie skews (CinemaScore showed 31% under 18 last night), it will be interesting to see whether Homecoming gets a huge boost from Saturday matinees. Typically, older-skewing male superhero movies are front-loaded, with Saturday taking a dip because Friday is padded with Thursday night preview figures.
Should Homecoming miss these projections today and wind up being the third-best domestic start for both Sony and Spider-Man, it’s still nothing to complain about. This is a phenomenal comeback for Sony and a long time coming, especially in the wake of the 2014 hack. Currently, Sony sees Homecoming coming in at $120M.

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