Holiday Box Office Update- Spider-Man: No Way Home huge, The Matrix Resurrections underperforming

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According to a recent report by Deadline, Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to break records at the holiday box office, with its domestic gross now standing at $536 million, overtaking Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($532.1 million) and The Dark Knight ($534.8 million), which stands as Warner Bros’ top-grossing domestic title ever. As the holidays continue, expect the box office milestones to keep being set, with No Way Home almost certainly bound to rank as one of the top-grossing films ever by the time the year is out.

Elsewhere at the holiday box office, Universal’s Sing 2 is doing surprisingly well in North America, despite the shadow of the Omicron variant and the fact that theatres are closed in one of Canada’s biggest markets, Quebec. Sing 2 has grossed an estimated $62.3 million domestically. Family movies have tended to do well throughout the pandemic, so Sing 2′s success shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. Sadly, the box office outlook isn’t nearly as rosy for some other big movies, with The Matrix Resurrections‘ domestic total a mere $25.8 million, while The King’s Man (which isn’t currently streaming) is faring even worse with only $13.6 million.

Meanwhile, Lionsgate’s American Underdog, which many thought would be a potential faith-based crossover hit, has flatlined at the box office, with a domestic gross that stands at $9.6 million. That’s still better than Denzel Washington’s star-studded A Journal for Jordan, which is struggling to find an audience (the box office gross is somewhere in the neighbourhood of $3 million). All that said, it seems like unless you’re a big superhero movie (that’s not also streaming) or a family film with tons of crossover appeal, the North American box office is still wildly inconsistent, despite some late fall hits like Ghostbusters: Afterlife, House of Gucci and Disney’s Encanto.

Have you gone to see anything else over the holidays besides Spider-Man: No Way Home? Let us know in the comments.

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Chris Bumbray began his career with JoBlo as the resident film critic (and James Bond expert) way back in 2007, and he has stuck around ever since, being named editor-in-chief in 2021. A voting member of the CCA and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, you can also catch Chris discussing pop culture regularly on CTV News Channel.