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This is a real turning point.
The road to recovery has been very difficult for movie theaters.
And I dont think this is a flash in the pan.
It just shows if you have the movies, people will come out.
It joinsShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings(No.
2, $224.5 million),Black Widow(No.
4, $183.6 million theatrically), andEternals(No.
6, $163.5 million) on the year-end highest-grossing blockbusters list.
And its promising this big crossover with past Spider-Man movies, the likes of which hasnt really happened before.
No Way Homedistributor Sony spent an eye-watering $202 million to globally market the movie.
But if you wait too long, spoilers are inevitably going to leak out.
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has long reigned as one of fandoms biggest draws.
The hope is that after people have seenSpider-Man, they may choose to see a film likeNightmare Alley.
Savvy audiences have figured all this out and enjoy being part of it.
Theyll laugh; theyll cry.
Every emotion is covered in between.
And theyve built on that.
