Holiday weekends, like our current Labor Day celebration, always lead to interesting results with the final tally. The box office fight on the first weekend of September this year involved the Before the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick and the return of the theatrical pleasure of Spider-Man: No homecoming. It’s a matchup that has led to some confusion as to which movie did better, even if the outcome was weaker than anyone would have expected.
What Term keeping track of where these two would-be titans were over the weekend, the results seemed close. There was even talk of the “fun version” of Spiderman the latest solo effort that grossed $ 7.6 million for the weekend, thanks to Sunday morning estimates. This morning’s projections brought everything back to reality, why Top Gun: Maverick he was estimated to be leading, with $ 7.9 million in four days. Spider-Man: No homecomingon the other hand, it fell to third place behind High speed trainwith an estimated $ 6.5 million to be dropped for the Marvel / Sony effort.
To be honest, even Paramount wasn’t sure they were the winner of the weekend, because Dissident he is estimated to have grossed just $ 7 million yesterday morning. Either way, what probably helped keep things interesting was the fact that Saturday was National Cinema Day. , which offered $ 3 tickets for any film / format at participating locations. According to the aforementioned report, this was still not enough to pull Labor Day weekend out of the crisis that called it the worst-grossing weekend of summer 2022.
It’s a result that looks more traditional than last year. ticket opening for Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings . As such, the practice of saving old movies to take another bite of the apple is just as convenient. However, there are two big differences when it comes to this year’s Labor Day contest that reaffirm what we’ve seen as a result.
First, Top Gun: Maverick it is not a traditional throwback per se. As the film has dominated the summer cinematic landscape since its first release over Memorial Day weekend, the sequel to Tom Cruise’s legacy has never really gone away. With curiosity, Dissident It may seem Shan Chi Memorial Day, like Cruise’s best staff opener conquered another notorious depression we’ve seen at the box office in modern times.
Which brings us to the actual return of Labor Day 2022: Spider-Man: No homecomingwhich created a cut that was announced by Andrew Garfield on social media . This doesn’t seem to have been enough to convince all Marvel fans to give the web another twist. Third place still isn’t a bad performance considering director Jon Watts’ closing trilogy film hit theaters in December 2021 and has been available for home entertainment since last April.
The Labor Day box office totals didn’t set the world on fire, that’s for sure. However, there were enough fights in Tom Cruise and Tom Holland that they both made for a great show. Maybe it’s a sign Kevin Feige might want to keep doing Past rumors of Cruise’s involvement in the MCU like a multiversal Tony Stark in a reality. In the meantime, you can prepare yourself Top Gun: Maverick possible release in streaming, since you registered to be at Paramount + subscriber it will give you access to its 1986 predecessor and this platform will be the future home of the next chapter of Maverick.
Source: Cinemablend
