Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to soar high into the sky, hitting milestone after milestone. The newest landmark that the film seems to be hitting is that it has passed Christian Bale’s The Dark Knight to become the 12th highest-grossing film of all time.
Christopher Nolan’s 2008 blockbuster The Dark Knight grossed a whopping $534,858,444 in the United States. However, Sony claims that Spidey’s newest film has grossed $536,592,000 million in the United States. That is the third-highest 13-day gross in history.
Some industry insiders anticipate Spider-Man: No Way Home will break the $1 billion domestic box office barrier. The Marvel Studios event has already surpassed that figure on a global scale.
Kevin Feige, the chairman of Marvel Studios, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the continued rise of record-breaking that Spider-Man: No Way Home is making. It’s more than a superhero movie making the big bucks; it’s how the audience must connect with the story being told.
“Making a commercial film that can say something and mean something to a lot of different types of people around the globe is extremely difficult to do and, I think, is dismissed often as easy,” said Feige to THR. “‘Well, you have a superhero in it, and that’s a cheat-code to success.’ It’s not. Putting on a costume is not the secret. The secret is having artists and storytellers, and craftsmen that can bring an audience on a journey. And when critics recognize that and audiences recognize that, it feels like it’s worthy then to talk about the Academy recognizing it. And that, I think, is what we’ll continue to talk about over the next few weeks.”
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