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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ swings to best opening of summer YTD with $120m+ beating ‘Guardians’
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- Anthony D'Alessandro
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- Jun 4 2023
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- 2017 words
Quite the jump from its predecessor which opened in the 30s during the holidays in 2018.
It’s a similar jump from Batman Begins to The Dark Knight. Batman Begins did okay in theaters but blew up on DVD, leading to The Dark Knight absolutely blowing it out of the water. Spider-Verse did okay in theaters but exploded on VOD and Netflix especially, leaving to hype building up for this movie. Beyond the Spider-Verse is definitely hitting a billion next year.
Also, the two biggest opening weekends of the year are from animated movies and neither are from Disney.
Excited to watch it, might catch GOTG a second time after watching it.
It's kind of shocking to see Sony now beating Disney in the superhero game.
People are burnt out of the superhero films I think. I know I am. I think these Spider-Man installments are breathe of fresh air, both in terms of animation (and we're seeing a lot of copy-cats now with this style), and interesting story lines with the whole multi-verse thing.
I know the multiverse idea isn't new in itself, but the way it's done here is well done.
I really appreciate the diversity and representation in the movies as well. GotG isn't bad at this either, but the other Marvel films, when the characters are human, are just so....white? lol
I'd keep watching them if they kept the quality. Ant man 3 is 30 minutes of really great movie wrapped in at least 1:10 of miserable low effort tropes (HE is coming/I don't have time to explain as we cross this MASSIVE vista).
I think the last marvel thing i really liked was Moon Knight, and that was because it felt well paced, creative, and well written. Things don't need to be perfect, but in my eyes marvel vacuumed up all the Transformers share of the box office, and did so by taking action movies and putting a modicum off effort into telling the story well rather than having it as an excuse for set pieces. However that initially happened, it feels like they don't know how to do it anymore.
I just saw the first Spiderverse movie last week and loved it -- and I've heard this one's even better which blows my mind! Can't wait to see it~
Already made a post about what I thought about the movie, twice, but it having an opening weekend on par with it's live action peers, is the animation renaissance that hit tv and streaming making its way into film? It may be that the film structure and spectacle is more appealing to the powers that be than an animated content drip keeping the right people on the right service and not having to deal with animation studio contracts for extended periods of time.
This movie was amazing. Saw it last night. I don't want to give any spoilers but I really enjoyed it, and I can't wait for the next one.
my friend gave it an absolutely glowing review, so there's that. Said it's one of the best movies he's seen in a long time. He's a typical mcu fan who also really enjoyed the first spiderverse, so I'm pretty stoked to go see it myself
This was a wonderful movie. It was visually impressive and creative.
Deserved. The movie is wonderful and the animation is breathtaking.