Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse scored a record-breaking launch in India where itbroke the local all-time opening day record for an animated movie with $610,000 while releasing on a non-traditional Thursday. The opening day gross is higher than the total weekend gross of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and The Little Mermaid. The film also set records in India for an animated movie with the widest release ever (2,000+ screens) and the most languages at 10 – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, and the original English.
In North America, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse made $17,350,000 for Thursday early shows making it the second highest preview gross of all-time for any animated film behind Incredibles 2 and the second highest preview gross for any Spider-Man film behind Spider-Man: No Way Home. The film is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a current 96% critics score and 98% audience score.
About Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man™: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most. Anyone can wear the mask – it’s how you wear it that makes you a hero.
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson. Written by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller & David Callaham. Based on the MARVEL COMICS. Produced by Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Christina Steinberg. Executive Producers Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Aditya Sood and Brian Michael Bendis. The film stars Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Issa Rae, Karan Soni, with Daniel Kaluuya and Oscar Isaac.
