Spider-man No Way Home, all the records and the background of the film

Spider-Man No Way Homethe record-breaking film

Co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios and distributed by Sony Pictures, the film landed in Italy last December 15 (in the US on December 17), after several postponements due to Covid. And he literally made a “bang”.

With such high takings – let’s talk about over one billion and nine hundred million global dollars (over 20 million euros in Italy alone) – to take it to the top of several rankings.

This is the highest worldwide gross of 2021 And of the third highest-grossing superhero film ever (after Avengers: Endgame with nearly two billion and eight hundred million dollars and Avengers: Infinity War with over two billion and forty-eight million dollars).

Among the films Sony is the one that has grossed the most of all. And it is the sixth highest grossing in the history of cinema (first there are Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens And Avengers: Infinity War).

But it was also what made him soar in the record rankings the progression of revenue growth: in the first 5 days it turned out the third best film ever (always after Avengers: Infinity War And Avengers: Endgame), in twelve days it reached a global gross of one billion dollars, placing itself as the second film of Spider-Man and the first and only between 2020 and 2021 to reach this milestone.

Spider-Man No Way Homethe film that shouldn’t have been made

The beauty is that all of this risked not to exist. Spider-Man No Way Home it is in fact the third film in a trilogy that includes Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019).

The initial agreement provided that Marvel would be entitled to 5% of the profits, but the Disney (owner of Marvel), for Spider-Man No Way Home demanded an increase in the percentage. The tug-of-war was ending with a stalemate, in practice it seemed that the two giants did not reach an agreement. It was the protagonist of the film, Tom Holland, the Peter Parker who turns Spider-Manwith its pathos, to put the two giants in agreement.

The final agreement provided that the Disney would get 25% of the profits in exchange for 25% of the co-financing. Since, opposite the record collection of over one billion and nine hundred million dollars, the production costs were only two hundred million, at a guess, Disney must have made a lot of money.

Plot and protagonists

Everything revolves around the fact that everything the world now knows that Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is Spider-Man. The high school boy therefore can no longer separate the private life from the heroic one. For this he asks for help from the Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to have a spell able to make everyone forget his superhero identity.

In the cast he returns Zendaya playing Michelle Jones, Mj, the superhero’s girlfriend. In addition, there is also in the film the meeting between the current Spider-Man, Tom Holland precisely, with the actors who played the previous editions of Spider-Man: Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.

Spider-Man No Way Home: the “full” version in September

The release of The More Fun Stuff Version, “full” version of the film, with unpublished scenes, turn, but cut. It seems to be in total of about fifteen unpublished minutes. Fans have high expectations, but some are disappointed because they were hoping for a larger unreleased piece. The broadcast, for now, is scheduled only in the US and Canada. Nothing excludes that it can arrive elsewhere (even in Italy).

Spider-Man 4 it will do. Perhaps it is already being done

But the big news that electrifies the fans is the release of the sequel. Announced unofficially already last year, then retracted but only in part, again hinted at, the Spider-Man sequel fits in the wake of the dispute between Disney and Sony that risked blowing up Spider-Man No Way Home.

After a thousand indiscretions Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studiosrecently clarified: “Yes, we are actively beginning to develop the direction of the next story.”

It should be a new trilogy always on Spider-Man, always with Tom Holland in the role of the protagonist. But industry experts, putting together a number of clues, believe that this trilogy (or at least the first film) do not land in theaters before 2024.

In any case the news should be relevant, starting from history. The point is, seeing that Spider-Man No Way Homewas a “giant”, replicating such a success becomes complicated.

This is probably why a weight producer like Amy Pascal he said: “You can’t think of surpassing yourself in terms of a great show. Our goal with the next film will be to try to overcome it on an emotional level. Spider-Man 4 it will be more exciting, in continuing the story of Peter ». Less action, more sentimentality?

Sky for Spider-Man fans

Meanwhile, for fans or for those who want to recover previous films, Sky, until July 24, offers a program dedicated to Spider-Man. On the platform they are also available Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home and the early 2000s trilogy directed by Sam Raimi with Spider-Man played by Tobey Maguire.

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