Why Across The Spider-Verse’s Box Office Is So Much Bigger Than The First Film’s

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a huge hit and is already earning more at the box office than the original Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. While Spider-Man movies are no stranger to box office success, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was the lowest-grossing Spider-Man movie at the box office, and it's rare for sequels to make more than their predecessors, making Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's box office success especially notable.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's $375.5 million global box office haul was considered a modest success, and its critical acclaim and Best Animated Feature Oscar only helped its popularity, but it was still the lowest-grossing Spider-Man movie by a significant margin. While it featured a number of different versions of Spider-Man, including multiple Peter Parkers, it served as the first big-screen appearance of Miles Morales, who isn't as well-known character for general audiences. Even so, after the massive success of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, it's clear Miles Morales Spider-Man has just as much box office pull as Peter Parker.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's Opening Weekend Box Office is Way Bigger Than Into The Spider-Verse's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse made $120.7 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, more than tripling Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's $35.4 million opening weekend from 2018. With an additional $88.1 million earned internationally, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's global total is already at $208.6 million, meaning it could pass the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's $384.3 million global run in no time. It's not uncommon for movie franchises to see a dip in box office in their second installments, so for Across the Spider-Verse to not only pass Into the Spider-Verse at the box office, but to do it by such an extreme margin is especially notable.
Despite its low $35.4 million opening weekend, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse had especially strong legs. Its $190.2 million domestic box office total is a 5.38 multiplier from its $35.4 million opening, the strongest multiplier of any Spider-Man movie. It's highly doubtful Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will have a multiplier that high since its opening weekend was so much bigger, but if it does, it'll drive it to $648 million domestically, more than any Spider-Man movie other than Spider-Man: No Way Home's $804.8 domestic total. Maintaining its current 57-43 percent domestic-to-international split would drive it to $1.22 billion globally.
How Across the Spider-Verse's Opening Weekend Box Office Compares to Live-Action Spider-Man Movies Spider-Man is one of the most reliable superheroes at the box office. While only two live-action Spider-Man movies have earned more than $1 billion worldwide (Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home), the character's reliability is clear. Even the biggest "bomb" in the franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 still earned a whopping $709 million worldwide. With a live-action opening weekend average of $122.2 million, it's clear Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's opening weekend box office is more comparable to live-action Spider-Man movies, scoring a bigger opening weekend than every live-action Spider-Man movie other than Spider-Man: No Way Home and Spider-Man 3.
The live-action Spider-Man movies have an average box office multiplier of 3.55. If Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse performs similarly at the domestic box office, its $120.5 million would grow to $427.8 million, more than any live-action Spider-Man movie's box office other than Spider-Man: No Way Home. If it maintains its current 57-43 percent domestic-to-international split, it could earn $750.5 million worldwide compared to the $987.1 million Spider-Man average (not adjusting for inflation). A $750 million worldwide total is also double Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse's $375 million global total; although, the only live-action Spider-Man movie box office it'd beat is The Amazing Spider-Man 2's $709 million.
Why Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Earned So Much More Than Into the Spider-Verse It's not uncommon for the second movie in a franchise to open lower than its predecessor. This sophomore slump is observable as far back as Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, but it's also seen with Spider-Man 2, IT Chapter 2, Paddington 2, Avatar: The Way of Water, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and more. While it's a common occurrence for a sequel to make less than the original, it's also far from a rule. For example, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy grew in box office with each installment, The Dark Knight earned more than Batman Begins, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and now, obviously, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse may have also outperformed Into the Spider-Verse because Into the Spider-Verse underperformed at the box office. Granted, it introduced a new version of Spider-Man, and it was the first animated theatrical Spider-Man movie, so it didn't fully capitalize on previous live-action Spider-Man movie box office success. After it earned glowing reviews and an Oscar for Best Animated Film, the anticipation and eagerness for a sequel was much higher. Often when big blockbuster sequels fail to surpass the original it's because the original was a huge box office hit, but Into the Spider-Verse set a much lower bar for Across the Spider-Verse.
One last thing that may have impacted Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's box office success is the popularity of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which earned $1.9 billion at the global box office and is now the seventh-highest-grossing movie of all time. No Way Home's biggest selling point was the introduction of the multiverse and multiple Spider-Men. Granted, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse had already done this in a much bigger way in 2018, but since it didn't even make 20 percent of No Way Home's box office, it didn't get nearly as much audience exposure. With a full-blown Spider-Verse introduced in the MCU, the implications for the animated Spider-Verse are much greater.
There are a variety of reasons why Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's opening weekend box office, but at the end of the day the positive reception of both movies plays a huge part. While Across the Spider-Verse's Rotten Tomatoes score is slightly less than the original, both movies are among the best-reviewed comic book movies ever released, including high praise from audiences. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's huge opening weekend sets it up for a big box office run, almost certainly beating Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and possibly even out-earning other live-action Spider-Man movies at the box office.


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