Spider-Man: No Way Home Passes Avatar to Become Third Highest-Grossing Domestic Film

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Spider-Man: No Way Home Passes Avatar to Become Third Highest-Grossing Domestic Film

Spider-Man: No Way Home has been a massive success, and it has now officially taken down the sci-fi epic Avatar as the third-highest-grossing film in United States history.

The move came over the weekend, with No Way Home reaching the milestone of $760.9 million at the North American box office, good enough to just edge itself past James Cameron’s film, which stood at $760.5 million. While it seems like Spider-Man‘s momentum may not be enough to carry it all the way over Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936 million) or Avengers: Endgame ($858 million) for the first or second mark, respectively, being the third highest-grossing film in domestic history is still a huge mark for the film.

“Though Spider-Man: No Way Home benefits from a much higher average ticket price than Avatar, this does not detract from the enormity of this achievement coming during a pandemic-impacted marketplace,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with Comscore (via Variety). “It would have been unimaginable just a few months ago to think that the latest Spider-Man film would even have a shot a leapfrogging over Avatar, which has been a mainstay on box office Mt. Olympus for over a decade.”

Spider-Man: No Way Home currently holds a worldwide gross of over $1.8 billion, and has become Sony’s highest-grossing film of all time. According to Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures are already actively beginning to develop their next Spider-Man film together.

The film sees the return of Tom Holland as the beloved titular wall-crawler, along with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange. It was directed by Jon Watts from a screenplay written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers.