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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Takes Down ‘Avatar’ to Become Third-Biggest Movie Ever at Domestic Box Office ↗

By Rebecca Rubin at Variety:

After weeks of speculation over whether or not Peter Parker had the legs to bump the people of Pandora from bronze, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” collected the remaining $1 million on Monday to push “Avatar” — and its mighty $760.5 million at the North American box office — to fourth place in the record books.

It would be difficult to overstate how impressive this feat is. Not only has Spider-Man: No Way Home knocked Avatar off its third-place perch, it’s done so amid a worldwide pandemic.

Can you imagine how much more of a behemoth this film would be if so many people weren’t feeling hesitant about spending extended time in crowds? Perhaps it could have unseated one of the top five highest-grossing films of all time! As it is, that seems unlikely—No Way Home would have to earn another $200 million, and soon, to have a chance of replacing Avengers: Infinity War. That’s a tall order, suggesting Avatar’s monumental lead in this particular metric is safe.¹

This is still a neat day, though, and an impressive accomplishment. It couldn’t have happened to a better film.