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‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ passes ‘Wonder Woman’ at the box office after huge China opening

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Chris Begley

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on ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ passes ‘Wonder Woman’ at the box office after huge China opening

Wonder Woman was the big blockbuster to beat this summer, and this weekend, Spider-Man: Homecoming did just that. The latest Spider-Man movie opened to $70.8 million in China, pushing its worldwide box office total to $823 million, surpassing Wonder Woman’s $816 million.

At $70.8 million, Spider-Man: Homecoming holds the record for the third-biggest China debut for a superhero movie, behind only Avengers: Age of Ultron ($115.8 million) and Captain America: Civil War ($93.6 million).

With box office numbers like these, I don’t think Sony has any regrets teaming up with Marvel for Spider-Man: Homecoming.

SOURCE: Box Office Mojo, The Hollywood Reporter

Comments

  1. DickyBird Avatar
    DickyBird

    I like that both of these films felt like dramas with people that happened to have powers. Hopefully the studios stay focused on that.

  2. Abkinxoc Avatar
    Abkinxoc

    Cool so both Marvel movies this year made more money then dc’s wonder woman?
    Imagine if Thor 3 ends up making more money the justice league just like captain america 3 made more money then bvs. How embarrassing would that be?

    1. Swamp Thing Avatar
      Swamp Thing

      Cap making more $ than BvS would only be embarrassing if BvS was as good or better. But Cap:CW was a far superior film, so I don’t think it’s embarrassing at all. It’s pretty paint by numbers… bad word of mouth and bad reviews hurt BoxOffice.

      1. Abkinxoc Avatar
        Abkinxoc

        I mean it was the first on screen meeting of batman and superman. dc fans were saying it would make a billion easy and crush the force awakens. If you told you a decade ago that a captain america movie would make more then the first meeting of dc’s trinity would you have believed it? I wouldn’t have and I’m a huge cap fan.

        1. Swamp Thing Avatar
          Swamp Thing

          It’s true that I would never think it possible… but that’s because I would assume they were making a GOOD MOVIE! Lol… BvS was BAD. Bad movies, with bad critical and fanboy reactions hurt BoxOffice.

          Then… Cap:CW was like Avengers 2.5! While it didn’t have Hulk/Thor, it introduced Black Panther and SPIDER-MAN! So if I were told a decade ago that a BAD Trinity movie was going to go up against a GOOD Cap/Avengers movie (in the age of Rottentomatoes)? Then yes… I would have thought It was completely fathomable! Lol

          1. Abkinxoc Avatar
            Abkinxoc

            i agree pretty much
            but if we are going to call civil war avengers 2.5 we have to call bvs justice league 0.5 at least. There were like 5 major story lines going on in there. death of superman. the dark knight returns, new 52 justice league, flash point and god knows how many others up against civil war..

          2. Swamp Thing Avatar
            Swamp Thing

            I’m cool with that. Call them whatever you want… point is, one movie was significantly better than the other. One movie was real good, the other was real bad.

          3. Abkinxoc Avatar
            Abkinxoc

            agreed.

  • Michael Joseph Avatar
    Michael Joseph

    marvel movies only better than DC movies because better marketing and promotion

    1. Swamp Thing Avatar
      Swamp Thing

      Marketing and promotion definitely helps with opening numbers at the BoxOffice, true. But that’s not why Marvel movies are better than DC. Movies (Post TDK). Marvel movies are better because they have a group of people that have a strong love and understanding of the material they’re working on.

      Marvel wouldn’t take a guy like Captain America and make his first movie depressing as hell (ala: Man of Steel)! Marvel then wouldn’t make a sequel to Man of Steel and shove Black Panther in it, and focus the whole thing on how badass Black Panther is while killing off Captain America (Ala: BvS)! Then Marvel wouldn’t make an Avengers movie with the founding member and leader, DEAD (ala: Justice League).

      And then Marvel would’ve never made a monstrous film about C list villains with NO SUPERPOWERS, fighting a GOD.

      Marvel movies are better, because they are made by people who care about the franchises & are enthusiastic about building their universe one story at a time.

      Meanwhile @DC, they’re just trying to pump out as many properties to catch up and make JL already. Burning through source material & destroying these great stories.

      1. Chris Miller Avatar
        Chris Miller

        Captain America’s movie was pretty depressing actually so I don’t see your point. His best friend died and then he “died” while having this heartbreaking conversation with the woman he loved only tonmake up in the future thus allowing the woman he loved

        1. Swamp Thing Avatar
          Swamp Thing

          If you can’t recognize the tonal differences of movies like Cap: First Avenger & MoS, then I expect not understanding my point.

          Like in one movie where a powerful man tried to, but couldn’t save his best friend… & the other where the most powerful man in the world could have saved his father, but didn’t.

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