We round up the box office and other holiday week geek showbiz news.
Spider-Man: No Way Home broke another pandemic-era record over the weekend, passing $1 billion in global box office revenues, the first film to do so in the past two years, according to Variety. Like its opening weekend, the film’s fast pace to $1 billion was behind only two other movies: Avengers: Endgame, and Avengers: Infinity War (see “’Spider-Man: No Way Home ‘ Opens Huge“). The film took in $81 million in North America in its second weekend, bigger than most pandemic-era hits’ first weekend take. The two big geek openings disappointed: The Matrix Resurrections took in only $12 million in its first weekend and $22.5 million since its opening on Wednesday, and The King’s Man even less, at $6.3 million for the weekend and $10 million since Wednesday. Sing 2 was actually the second biggest release, with box office revenues of $23.7 million for the weekend and $41 million since Wednesday.
Marvel has released a teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (trailer below), due out next year. The release date was recently pushed back from March to the first weekend in May (see “Five Marvel Films Pushed Back“). “The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little,” Marvel says of the film.
Lionsgate has pushed back the release of John Wick 4 nearly a year, from May 2022 to March 24, 2023, the studio announced via video (video below). The move takes John Wick out of head-to-head competition with Top Gun: Maverick, which moved to the same May date in September (see “Coronavirus Movie Shuffle“). Production is running behind on the film, another factor in its delay, according to Deadline.
Michael Keaton will play Batman in Batgirl, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Keaton is also expected to play the role in the upcoming Flash and Batman features (see “’The Flash’ Teaser“). Batgirl will be played by In the Heights star Leslie Grace (see “Batgirl Cast“).
Source: ICV2
