'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Just Dethroned 'Avatar' at the Box Office

Disney doesn’t really have a hard time dominating the box office.

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With properties like Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and more, many of the most successful movies at the box office have been Disney movies. Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home has been doing incredibly well at the box office, and the movie just broke a major record that was previously held by another Disney property.

Spider-Man: No Way Home has officially unseated James Cameron’s 2009 movie Avatar to become the 3rd-highest grossing domestic box office release in history, according to Variety.

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The Marvel movie has collected a total of $760.988 million so far (according to Deadline), bumping down Avatar and its $760.5 million to 4th place at the North American box office.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home has been enjoying an incredible run since premiering in December of 2021. Its domestic box office ticket sales are 3 times more than the next highest-grossing movie of the pandemic era, which is Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings with $224 million, according to Variety.

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So, can Spidey catch up to the top 2 highest grossing movies on the domestic box office list? Well, it would take a lot. No Way Home would have to make an additional $100 million in ticket sales to catch up to the number 2 spot, which is Avengers: Endgame with $858 million. And, in the number 1 spot is Star Wars: The Force Awakens with $936 million, so it’s unlikely Spider-Man will get up to those numbers, especially in the middle of a global pandemic when not as many people are going to the theaters.

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“Though Spider-Man: No Way Home benefits from a much higher average ticket price than Avatar, this does not detract from the enormity of this achievement coming during a pandemic-impacted marketplace…It would have been unimaginable just a few months ago to think that the latest Spider-Man film would even have a shot a leapfrogging over Avatar, which has been a mainstay on box office Mt. Olympus for over a decade,” saysPaul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with Comscore, according to Variety.

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Globally, Spider-Man: No Way Home is the 6th-highest grossing movie of all time with $1.8 billion. The top 5 spots belong to Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avatar, and Titanic, which have each made over $2 billion in worldwide box office sales. No Way Home doesn’t have a release date in China, and without the country’s ticket sales, it might be unrealistic for Spidey to cross the $2 billion mark, according to Variety.

But, Spider-Man: No Way Home still has plenty of accomplishments to be proud of, like the 2nd-biggest domestic debut in history with $260 million in ticket sales, as well as the 3rd-largest global debut with $600 million, both in the opening weekend alone.