‘Spider-Man’ Complicates Movie Theater Recovery Plot
Sony’s latest blockbuster gives a last-minute boost to theaters, but full recovery still far from certain
It is too bad Sony can’t make a new Spider-Man movie every weekend.
The webslinger’s latest outing — Spider-Man: No Way Home — has now grossed more than $467 million domestically and topped $1 billion worldwide at the box office since its Dec 17 release.
That makes it the biggest hit of the pandemic period by far, with the movie selling more than twice as many tickets as the next runner-up, Disney’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten…