Spider-Man: No Way Home electrified cinemas over the holidays. Since its December 17 debut, fans across the globe have spent $US1.4 billion ($2 billion) on tickets to watch the latest sequel in the Marvel franchise, surpassing the likes of 2018’s Black Panther in all-time box office sales.
This happened even during the rapid rise of omicron which might have been expected to make people more reluctant to spend hours inside a room with other humans. In the US, it might have been the first time a big pandemic-era film has performed more or less as it would have before the pandemic.
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