‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Is Another Black Box Office Hit, Scoring Second-Highest Opening This Year
by Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton

June 6, 2023

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Is Another Black Box Office Hit, Scoring Second-Highest Opening This Year

The sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has scored the second-highest opening for the year thus far.

According to Box Office Pro, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel to the 2018 original, tallied $120.5 million across theaters in the country over the weekend. This makes the sequel second only to this year’s biggest opening weekend behind another animated film, The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

The total intake was more than three times the opening weekend total of the first movie in the series, which took in $35.3 million in its debut weekend.

The movie also placed in the top 10 opening animated weekends of all time, coming in eighth place for a debut weekend.

  1. 2019’s The Lion King ($191.7M)
  2. 2018’s Incredibles 2 ($182.6M)
  3. 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($146.3M)
  4. 2016’s Finding Dory ($135.0M)
  5. 2019’s Frozen II ($130.2M)
  6. 2007’s Shrek the Third ($121.6M)
  7. 2019’s Toy Story 4 ($120.9M)
  8. 2023’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($120.5M)

The movie also became the biggest animated opening of all time for Sony Pictures, with a total of $88.1 million overseas, adding up to a global amount of $208.5 million.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) and Gwen Stacy (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) join together for an epic journey across the multiverse. They meet a new team of Spider-People known as the Spider Society, led by Spider-Man 2099 (voiced by Oscar Isaac), as they face a new threat to fight against.

Moore told Entertainment Weekly, “Miles is in a place where he just wants to impress her. He will jump through a portal across dimensions to be with her. And quite frankly, I don’t know if I know anybody I’m willing to jump through a portal for.”

“I’ll tell you something: I don’t!” Steinfeld added.

Disney’s remake of The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey, comes in behind Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, hauling in $40.6 million, bringing the total of the past two weeks to $186.2 million ($326.7 million globally).


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