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Box Office Weekend: Spider-Man: Homecoming Tops the Bill

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Spider-Man: Homecoming brought the web slinger back to the big screen in a big way with a near-$120 million opening weekend ($117 million to be exact). This is the second largest opening for a Spider-Man feature, just narrowly pushing past the 2002 original directed by Sam Raimi.

This gives Spider-Man: Homecoming the second largest opening of the year (so far), between Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($146.5 million) and Wonder Woman ($103.2 million).

The Minions and Despicable Me 3 laid a firm claim on second place with $34 million; almost triple that of third-place finisher Baby Driver at its $12.8 million haul. Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman continues to do well at the box office, finishing in fourth place, bringing in another $10.1 million as the film inches closer to the $400 million mark. Transformers: The Last Knight managed to land an additional $6.3 million to raise its three-week total to $118.9 million, which some may say is a far cry from the pace of its predecessors.

The third film in the Cars saga, the aptly named Cars 3, picked up enough passengers to earn $5.6 million and raise its four-week total to $133.7 million. Meanwhile, the, ahem, comedy, The House added another $4.8 million, bringing its overall gross to $18.6 million. The indie comedy The Big Sick continues to do decent business with $3.7 million as it prepares to expand next week.

The shark-infested 47 Meters Down rose its domestic total to $38.5 million adding $2.8 million over the weekend. Finally, Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, starring Nicole Kidman, received an expanded release, earning an additional $2.1 million. One of these movies is sure to fall out of the top ten next week as the apes return to dominate the box office with War for the Planet of the Apes.

Weekend Box Office (July 7th – July 9th)
  1. Spider-Man: Homecoming…$117 Million
  2. Despicable Me 3…$34 Million
  3. Baby Driver…$12.8 Million
  4. Wonder Woman…$10.1 Million
  5. Transformers: The Last Knight…$6.3 Million
  6. Cars 3…$5.6 Million
  7. The House…$4.8 Million
  8. The Big Sick…$3.7 Million
  9. 47 Meters Down…$2.8 Million
  10. The Beguiled…$2.1 Million

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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