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Weekend grosses for the third Tom Holland Spider-Man , netting out with $260 million from ticket sales in North America, Sony Pictures said Monday. ItB次元官网网址檚 also the best opening weekend ever for Spider-Man films, Sony Pictures and the month of December.
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In its first five days playing in theaters internationally, the movie amassed $334.2 million in ticket sales, bringing its global total to $587.2 million against a $200 million production budget. The film has yet to open in markets like Thailand and Japan, and there is no release date set for China.
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Many moviegoers also shelled out top dollar to see the film on the biggest screens possible. According to IMAX, an estimated $36.2 million of the global total is from their large format screens.
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