From Spider-Man to A Very British Scandal: a complete guide to your Christmas entertainment

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: The first weekend of 2022 for all movies is looking at $100.6M, an amount that’s 700% ahead of New Year’s weekend 2021 when most theaters where closed due to Covid, but behind 29% two years ago in 2020 when Covid didn’t seem to be a threat stateside.

**Spoilers for ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ are incoming…** **You’ve been warned.** Say what you will about “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the film definitely doesn’t underdeliver on the number of twists, turns, and surprising cameos. But believe it or not, if the studio went with the early drafts of the script, there could have been a lot more familiar faces showing up in the record-breaking sequel.

It’s official— “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has done what no other pandemic-era film has done so far, earning more than $1 billion worldwide. And the film did it in only 12 days.

Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus celebrated Christmas int heir own, small way.

Spider-Man: No Way Home’s” box office prowess has no bounds.The latest entry in the Tom Holland-led trilogy will become the biggest movie of the year worldwide on Friday, Christmas Eve. It’s set to cross the $1 billion mark on Christmas Day.

Spider-Man: No Way Home” shows that movie theaters can still be a major power at a time when streaming services have seemingly taken over the world.The instant box office smash also launches Tom Holland, the 25-year-old British actor whose peppy, quippy and youthful take on the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man gives the comic-book epic its zip and heart, into the top ranks of Hollywood stars. His central performance was a key ingredient in the film’s outsized success, reaping $260 million

Two-and-a-half starsIt’s no secret that little kids love talking animals. But is it too much to ask that there be a stated reason why a koala, elephant, porcupine and pig live happily in the same urban city and all have a passion for music?That’s the crux of the so-so “Sing” movie series — tales of a showbiz zoo in which someone’s status as a turtle is hardly ever mentioned.

It’s going to be a really rich Christmas for exhibition, Sony and Marvel as Spider-Man: No Way Home barrels toward potentially the third best 2nd weekend ever with around $143M over the long Christmas period of Dec. 24-27.

Do you and your dog have matching Santa hats? Or maybe your pup is the star of the show with a reindeer onesie. Our sister site TeamDogs is celebrating Santa’s Little Helpers week ahead of Christmas, and is asking you to send in your most joyful pictures of your pets dressed up.

The star of the new Spider-Man film has revealed he is a huge Gerry Cinnamon fan in a Hollywood interview.

, Miles Morales says, 'Anyone can wear the mask.' His proclamation speaks to Morales and Peter Parker's average nature that, along with radioactive arachnoid genetics, has been embedded in the character's DNA since Stan Lee created the superhero in 1962.Even before the, the MCU,  and the upside-down kiss, Spider-Man was already held up as one of Marvel’s biggest success stories.

Zendaya has melted hearts with an emotional tribute shared on Instagram to boyfriend and Spider-Man: No Way Home star Tom Holland.MORE: Tom Holland fully resembles Spider-Man in incredible gymnastic displayTom stars as the web slinger in Marvel's Cinematic Universe with the third film hitting cinemas on Thursday, and to celebrate Zendaya shared a picture of Tom suspended from a harness during filming, and a second of the British star as a child dressed as Spidey.

Tom Holland has some advice for the youth out there.

Even Spider-Man can’t stop a fart from coming out. Tom Holland, who plays Peter Parker/the web-slinging superhero on the big screen, confessed in a Dec. 10 interview with SiriusXM that he accidentally passed gas while performing a wire stunt on the set of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which arrives in theaters on December 17. As for the person that Tom, 25, farted on? That would be Zendaya, his on-screen sweetheart and real-life girlfriend.