'Spider=Man: No Way Home - The More Fun Stuff' includes new, never-before-seen footage and deleted scenes. Sony's reissued blockbuster topped the Labor Day weekend box office.
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Reissued Spider-Man: No Way Home comes swinging back with a vengeance to reclaim Labor Day weekend
Your friendly neighborhood web-slinger found his way home to the top of the box office.
By
Lester Fabian BrathwaiteSeptember 04, 2022 at 05:40 PM EDT
You can't keep a good Peter Parker down — from any multiverse.
Sony's reissued
Spider-Man No Way Home proved it's still got legs, all eight of 'em, by topping the Labor Day weekend box office, some nine months after its original release.
A reissued 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' with deleted scenes and new footage topped the Labor Day weekend box office.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home – The More Fun Stuff,
as it's been billed, includes new, never-before-seen footage and deleted scenes as part of the celebration of 60 years of the Spider-Man comic book character and 20 years of Spider-Man films.
Spidey earned a projected $7.6 million over the holiday weekend, for a cumulative total of $812 million. The film, already the sixth-highest grossing movie of all time worldwide with lifetime earnings of $1.9 billion, added $2.6 million to its already impressive haul.
Ticket sales were, no doubt, helped by
National Cinema Day on Saturday with $3 tickets nationwide like it's 1982 in these streets. But the '80s were going strong all weekend, with
Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the 1986 blockbuster that has since become
Tom Cruise's highest grossing film, taking in a projected $7 million through Monday — in its 15th week, no less — bringing its total to just over $700 million.
Internationally,
Maverick came in third, behind
Bullet Train ($9.8 million) and
Minions: The Rise of Gru ($8.9 million), with $5.8 million, for a whopping $1.4 billion in global grosses. Notably,
Spider-Man: No Way Home, the highest-grossing movie of 2021, and
Top Gun: Maverick, the highest-grossing movie of 2022, are the first and second films, respectively, to surpass $1 billion since the start of COVID.
Domestically,
DC League of Super Pets ($6.8 million),
Bullet Train ($6.8 million), and
The Invitation ($5.8 million) rounded out the top 5 at the box office. Meanwhile,
Spider-Man wasn't the only reissued movie making waves. Universal re-released its 1976 ode to summer terror
Jaws, which chomped up a projected $2.7 million over the holiday weekend.