This Spider’s got legs! Easily swinging past the milestone $500 million worldwide mark after Tuesday’s global ticket sales were accounted for, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is showing resilience as it keeps crawling along in theaters both domestic and international.
Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s sequel to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has now accumulated $506.3M through yesterday. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, Across the Spider-Verse pulled in $290.4 million as of June 20 with a foreign box office total of $215.9 million.
But this cinematic arachnid is far from done as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse just bowed in Korea today to wrap up its last important marketplace. Korea’s new figures were not included in this most recent Hollywood tabulation, but so far they have amounted to $596K.
The global numbers are even more remarkable considering the fact that the highly-acclaimed global hit was pulled from the release schedule in UAE, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East, because it failed to meet the regions’s censorship requirements. Some sources believe that a scene showing a transgender flag in Gwen Stacy’s bedroom with the slogan reading “Protect Trans Lives” might have been the reason for this censorship.
Produced by Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Christina Steinberg, the hit fantasy adventure film scurried to a $209M global for its debut weekend in early June to deliver Sony its most impressive start for an animated feature ever. Part of the success story lies in its unanimously good critical reviews, repeat viewings, and enthusiastic fan recommendations.
Sony’s successful blockbuster currently showing up with a 96% critics score and 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
With a reported budget of $100 million and marketing costs just north of another $100 million, Across The Spider-Verse needed to push past the $500 million mark to enter that promised land of profitability.
Breaking down the animated sequel’s international box office triumphs, we see China in the top slot with $42.5M, followed by the UK’s haul of $26.1M, Mexico representing with $24.2M, Australia lagging a bit behind at $15M and finally Brazil with $10.4M. Japan, traditionally a country of comic book-loving fare, racked up $2.8M for the film’s premiere weekend last week, leapfrogging the results of 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by a whopping 82%.
Sources: Variety, Deadline, Boxofficemojo
