{"id":1157716,"date":"2021-12-26T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1157716"},"modified":"2021-12-26T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T19:04:19","slug":"christmas-box-office-spider-man-nears-half-a-billion-in-north-america-matrix-4-bombs-in-3rd-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christmas-box-office-spider-man-nears-half-a-billion-in-north-america-matrix-4-bombs-in-3rd-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Box Office: &#039;Spider-Man&#039; Nears Half a Billion in North America, &#039;Matrix 4&#039; Bombs in 3rd Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchristmas-box-office-spider-man-nears-half-a-billion-in-north-america-matrix-4-bombs-in-3rd-place%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1157716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/spidey-matrix-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>(AP) Peter Parker\u2019s good fortune continued over the holiday weekend. Even with some mighty competition from new Matrix and Sing movies, and rising concerns over the omicron variant, \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d stayed in the No. 1 spot and netted a few more milestones too including crossing the $1 billion mark globally.<\/p>\n<p>According to studio estimates Sunday \u201cSpider-Man\u201d added $81.5 million over the three-day weekend, down 69% <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-business-arts-and-entertainment-north-america-tom-holland-953137fda1d00571aacda9a3175a3fcb\">from its first weekend<\/a>. The Sony and Marvel film has now grossed $467 million from North American theaters, more than doubling the domestic grosses of 2021\u2032s previous No. 1 film, \u201cShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>With $587.1 million from 61 overseas markets, \u201cSpider-Man\u201d has grossed $1.05 billion globally, making it the highest earner of the pandemic. It\u2019s the first film of the pandemic to cross $1 billion and the second-fastest film ever to do so \u2014 and this without the benefit of China release.<\/p>\n<p>Universal\u2019s \u201cSing 2\u201d came in second place with an estimated $23.8 million, while Warner Bros.\u2019 \u201cThe Matrix Resurrections\u201d grossed $12 million to take third place.<\/p>\n<p>The animated musical \u201cSing 2\u201d features high-profile celebrity talent including Matthew McConaughey, Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon and Bono, as well as a jukebox soundtrack full of well-known hits. Since its release Wednesday, it\u2019s made $41 million ($1.6 million of that came from Thanksgiving weekend showings) from North America and $65 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re extraordinarily pleased,\u201d said Jim Orr, Universal\u2019s president of domestic distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Orr said the stellar CinemaScore (A+) and audience scores suggest that the film will continue to perform well in the next few weeks, when many kids are still out of school for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth Matrix also opened on Wednesday and has earned an estimated $22.5 million in its first five days in North America. The film, directed by Lana Wachowski and starring Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, is currently streaming on HBO Max as well. Globally, it\u2019s grossed $69.8 million to date.<\/p>\n<p>And in fourth is Disney and 20th Century\u2019s \u201cThe King\u2019s Man,\u201d a prequel to the action-comedy Kingsman series starring Ralph Fiennes. It came in slightly under expectations with $10 million from its first five days. The audience skewed heavily male (65%).<\/p>\n<p>The Kurt Warner biopic \u201cAmerican Underdog\u201d opened on Christmas Day and has made an estimated $6.2 million in its two days in release. Zachary Levi stars as Warner, the quarterback who went from undrafted free agent to Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cLicorice Pizza\u201d expanded nationwide on Christmas, after playing in limited release for a month, and added $2.3 million bringing its total to $3.7 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) Peter Parker\u2019s good fortune continued over the holiday weekend. Even with some mighty competition from new Matrix and Sing movies, and rising concerns over the omicron variant, \u201cSpider-Man: No &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}