The latest installment in the Spider-Man saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, has risen to the top of the North American box office for its first week, according to estimates from specialist firm Exhibitor on Sunday. Relationships. The hero, propelled into a world made of parallel dimensions (multiverse) which Hollywood now loves, collected 120 million dollars in box office receipts in Canada and the United States, a particularly successful start, doing better than the last opus.
We find Miles Morales, the new face of Spider-Man who appeared in the comics in 2011. Cool teenager from Brooklyn, son of a Latino nurse and an African-American policeman, he was, like the original hero of the saga Peter Parker, bitten by a radioactive spider and swings between the skyscrapers of Manhattan to fight crime.
This new version, by mixing the timeless pencil stroke of comics with the latest computer-assisted animation techniques, spawns with auteur cinema – a visibly popular recipe.
In second place is, with $40.6 million, the live-action version of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, leading last week for its first days in theaters. The 1989 cartoon remake is still set in the 1830s Caribbean, on the edge of a fictional island. In the sea lives 18-year-old mermaid Ariel (Halle Bailey), the youngest of the seven daughters of King Triton (Javier Bardem) who rules the oceans from her underwater kingdom.
At the bottom of the podium is Le Croque-mitaine, a horror film based on a short story by American writer Stephen King, which collected $12.3 million in revenue.
The Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 comes in 4th place with $10.2 million in revenue. The third part of the saga, which features a team of intergalactic mercenaries, this time plunges viewers into a race against time to save the raccoon Rocket.
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Here’s the rest of the top 10:
6. Super Mario Bros. the Movie ($3.4 million)
7. My dad and me (2.1 million)
8. The Machine (1,8 million)
9. You Hurt My Feelings (770.000)
10. Kandahar (765,000)
