Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is not only a success with critics, but it’s doing big business at the box office as well.
The movie opened this past weekend, and it made $35.4 million over its first three days in the United States. That sets a new all-time record for any animated movie released in December. Into the Spider-Verse was the No. 1 movie of the weekend with Clint Eastwood’s The Mule ($17.2 million) trailing in second place for the three-day period.
Into the Spider-Verse holds an incredible A+ CinemaScore rating from movie-goers, which suggests the movie will perform well into its second weekend and potentially beyond. With its international box office figures added in, Into the Spider-Verse has now made $56.4 million after just one weekend. The film had a reported budget of $90 million.
Into the Spider-Verse is just the latest Spider-Man film from Sony, which licenses the character Spider-Man and others from Marvel. Sony’s previous Spider-Man movie, the spinoff Venom, was a massive success at the box office, taking in more than $850 million.
