Eat your heart out,Avengers: Endgame; there’s a newinternet-breaking, theater-floodingblockbuster in your cinematic universe.Spider-Man: No Way Homesaw Fandango ticket presales start on Monday and in just two hours, it broke the record for most first-day presales of 2021 previously held byBlack Widow. Moreover,No Way Home’s presales were the site’s biggest sinceEndgamein 2019, a film that saw the largest domestic opening by a film in U.S. history at $357 million
Fears that the ongoing pandemic would kill the blockbuster can be put to rest for now, asNo Way Homeis handily beating previous pre-pandemic films likeAvengers: Infinity Warand the latest slew ofStar Warsfilms. The film will open exclusively in theaters on December 17 and, via a Fandango poll of 2,000 customers, it was obviously rated the most anticipated film of the winter. It’s not entirely a shock that the film is getting this much attention in advance sales, but it’s still an impressive feat given current challenges.
“Spider-Man: No Way Homepromises to wrap a bow around 20 years of live-action Spider-Man movies, and anticipation is through the roof with fans anxious to see howTom Holland’sHomecomingtrilogy concludes,” said Fandango Managing EditorErik Davisin a statement regarding the film’s overwhelming popularity. “The most anticipated film of the season promises to deliver surprises on every level and December 17th can’t come soon enough.” Spider-Man’s previous outing,Far From Home, grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide and it seems entirely possible now thatNo Way Homecould approach that number.
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No Way Homepicks up right whereFar From Homeleft off in the Holland Spider-Man universe. After Spider-Man’s true identity is revealed to the world, Peter Parker’s balancing act between the life of a teenage boy and that of an Avenger is thrown out of whack. He goes to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) for help, but the spell he conjures backfires, bringing villains fromSpider-Manfranchises past to Peter’s world. Doc Ock (Alfred Molina), Electro (Jamie Foxx), and the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) all return in a climactic battle to restore Spider-Man’s reality and save the multiverse. The film also sees the return ofZendayaas MJ along withJacob Batalon,Jon Favreau, andMarisa Tomei.
Even with the insane presales, it’s hard to see a world whereNo Way Homebreaks the $357 million opening mark set byEndgame, but it is likely we’ll see a new high for a pandemic release. If sales keep at this pace, it’s possible we could see the first pandemic-era film reaching the $200 million mark for its domestic opening. Anything is possible when dealing with the MCU and especially Spider-Man.Spider-Man: No Way Homecomes to theaters on December 17.
