Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has swung to a $208.6M global opening. This is extra remarkable as it marks Sony’s biggest animated launch of all time. The international box office debut was $88.1M, ahead of early projections and 2.8x Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in like-for-likes, excluding China.
Reviews and strong word of mouth have helped power the arachnid as a summer must-see. Currently, there are 59 markets open with Japan and Korea to follow later in June. (Very smart to stay out of Korea this weekend where local pic, The Roundup: No Way Out, had an extraordinary opening of $34M).
China led all play at $17.3M amid great scores: 8.9 on Douban (the highest ever for a Marvel title), 9.4 at Maoyan, and 9.4 for Taopiaopiao. Next up was Mexico with $11.6M, followed by the UK at $11.5M.
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