‘Spider-Man’ Surpasses Avatar’s Original Box Office Total

Seven weeks after its release, Spider-Man: No Coming Home continues to hover near the top of the box office charts – and continues to topple box office records. Last weekend it came in third place, behind new images like Fooled forever and moon fallbut before recent versions like Scream, American Underdogand The 355. It grossed $9.6 million, bringing its domestic box office total to $748.9 million.
This means that within a day or two at its current rate, it will exceed the total that James Cameron has Avatar reported when it first aired in theaters. If you look Avatar on Box Office Mojo’s all-time domestic box office chart it sits at $760.5 million – but that includes the money the film earned from subsequent re-releases. When it first opened theatrically in 2009, its final box office total before heading to home video was $749.8 million. And even during the week Spider-Man: No Coming Home usually brings in between $750,000 and $1 million. So by the time you read this it should be over Avatarit’s total, even if Spider Man is still technically number four on the chart, behind Avatar, Adventurers: Endgameand the national number one hit of all time, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
While No coming home has a chance to pass Avatar squarely on the all-time list at the box office, it will almost certainly never pass on the international all-time chart. The, Avatar is the all-time record holder with $2.8 billion worldwide. Spider ManThe $1.7 billion is impressive, but at this point it would take a Spider-Men-like miracle of multiple universes converging on our world for the movie to bring in another billion dollars.
Spider-Man: No Coming Home still plays exclusively in theaters. Avatar will soon have a chance to regain its place at the box office; Avatar 2 is currently scheduled to open in theaters on December 16, 2022.
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