‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ preview offers new look at Willem Defoe’s return as Green Goblin

Adding $30 million on Thursday from 4,336 locations, “No Way Home” has a domestic box office total of $386 million and $876 million worldwide, passing the $821 million total of the Chinese film “Hi, Mom” for second place on the global charts for the year.

“Spider-Man” star Jacob Batalon is talking about his weight loss transformation.

That means that Spidey has webbed up the record for the biggest December opening in box office history and now sits third on the all-time opening list. If the film continues to beat industry estimates on Sunday, it will pass the $257 million opening of “Avengers: Infinity War” for the No.

Coming into the weekend, everyone knew “Spider-Man: No Way Home” would break pandemic-era box office records. Previously, the biggest debut was with “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” which earned $90 million over its first three days back in October.

Kevin Feige is looking ahead to the future.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is “actively” in the works, Marvel boss Kevin Fiege has confirmed.Fiege made the comments alongside studio partners Sony, whose boss Amy Pascal also spoke about efforts being made to get a follow-up off the ground.“Amy and I and Disney and Sony are talking about – yes, we’re actively beginning to develop where the story heads next, which I only say outright because I don’t want fans to go through any separation trauma like what happened after Far From Home,” Feige told

Major Spoilers for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ahead.If you’ve seen “Spider-Man: No Way Home” or just watched the trailers, then you already know the film is bringing back some iconic characters from past iterations of the franchise into the fold.The story picks up immediately where 2019’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home” left off, with Tom Holland’s Peter Parker now outed to the world as Spider-Man.

NEW YORK -- For the first time since the pandemic began, the box office is booming. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” grossed $50 million in Thursday previews alone, a stunning start for a movie set to break pandemic records.Sony Pictures' “No Way Home" scored the third-largest preview total ever, trailing only those for “Avengers: Endgame” ($60 million) and “The Force Awakens" ($57 million).

Who says people love to stay home and stream movies? Proving that theatrical is still king, Sony/Disney/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home rang up a massive $50M, the third highest preview night ever, and the most money Sony has ever seen for a Thursday preview night that easily buries the previous high we’ve seen during the pandemic, that being for Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow at $13.2M.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” opens this weekend, and everyone is very excited about the return of some fan-favorite villains to the franchise (including Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus and Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin). Just as exciting, though, are the characters from this cycle of “Spider-Man” movies like Tom Holland, Zendaya and, of course, Marisa Tomei as Aunt May.

In Spider-Man’s last film installment, and replayed at the top of high-spirited sequel Spider-Man: No Way Home (★★★★☆), the teen superhero’s ally-turned-enemy Mysterio (Jack Gyllenhaal) took to social media to let the biggest spoiler in the MCU out of the bag. As his last villainous act before dying, Mercurio revealed Spidey’s secret identity as New York City high schooler Peter Parker (Tom Holland).Instantly, and thanks to online troll J.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterLike so many, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers grew up loving Spider-Man — from the animated TV series to the action figures to, as they became adults, Sam Raimi’s live-action movies starring Tobey Maguire.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterMarvel’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is swinging to the rescue.Tom Holland’s newest web-slinging adventure “Spider-Man: No Way Home” hits theaters on Friday and is poised to generate $150 million in its box office debut — a heroic feat even by pre-COVID standards. The film’s distributor Sony Pictures modestly predicts a three-day tally closer to $130 million, which would still rank as a huge win.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” releases this week, and there is already a heap of reviews out in the wild (read ours here). While we’ll be holding off on significant spoilers here, it’s certainly interesting to learn that things didn’t go as planned concerning the returning villains being part of the sequel’s marketing materials.

Kevin Feige’s Marvel Cinematic Universe has, for the most part, given The Blip.And newfound dramatic weight isn’t the only element from the older films at play in “No Way Home.” (Don’t worry, spoiler paranoiacs, I’m not going to reveal anything in this review that’s not clearly visible from readily available movie trailers that you’ve watched two million times.)Watts likes to aggressively shake up his films’ circumstances, so at the start, the vanquished Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) has revealed

*This review will not discuss the spoilers of ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home.’ It will, however, mention characters that are seen in the trailers.* “Be careful what you wish for,” is a line spoken in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” And ironically, this cautionary proverb applies to the movie itself, a film that gives you all you wanted and more—the epic fantasy wish list dream scenario—but isn’t necessarily better off for it in the end.

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