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| A scene from the film "Spider-Man: No Way Home" / Courtesy of Sony Pictures |
By Lee Gyu-lee
Marvel's latest superhero flick "Spider-Man: No Way Home" has surpassed 7 million ticket sales, setting a new highest ticket sales record in the local box office since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
The action blockbuster movie, which debuted Dec. 15 last year, has garnered 7.01 million ticket sales grossing about 70.4 billion won ($59.1 million) as of Thursday morning.
The previous ticket sales record since the beginning of the pandemic was the Korean action crime film "Deliver Us from Evil," which sold about 4.36 million tickets, grossing 38.6 billion won ($32.4 million).
Jon Watts, who directed "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (2017) and "Spider-Man: Far From Home" (2019), finishes with the third and last of the Spider-Man trilogy following Peter Parker (Tom Holland) as it is revealed to the public that he is the superhero.
When he seeks to make the world forget his identity with the help of Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), he puts himself in the middle of a multiverse crisis, as he battles supervillains who come to Earth. Faced with a major crisis, he is forced to discover what it truly means to be a superhero.
The film has been a major hit since being released here. Marking the highest opening sales ― about 635,000 tickets ― and grossing 6.26 billion won ($5.25 million), it surpassed 3 million ticket sales within a week. It has been topping the local weekend box office for five consecutive weeks.
