Tom Holland

Before The Batman enters Uncharted territory next week, Spider-Man hung on to the box office top three. And with that, Tom Holland dominated the charts again, three weeks in a row, with two movies.

Uncharted remains the #1 box-office earner in Russia: with just a 30 % drop versus its opening weekend, the first feature produced by Sony PlayStation Productions grossed 231 mln RUB ($3. 1 mln) for a total of 675 mln RUB ($9 mln) since its release last week.

Uncharted easily charted to the top of the box office and gave Tom Holland the number one and three slots with his Spider-Man: No Way Home swinging back to the race. Solidifying his status as a box office star, Holland claimed the box office crown with Uncharted, director Ruben Fleischer’s movie adaptation of Naughty Dog’s video game series of the same name.

Spider-Man: No Way Home swung its way home to a boffo box opening weekend - a record-shattering on several levels. Tom Holland’s third movie outing as the web-slinging hero grabbed $253 million and set the record as the biggest December debut weekend ever, not just of the pandemic era.

Once again, the coronavirus extended its lethal tentacles into the box office in the US and pretty much in every other market. It did it in ways significantly more dramatic than in the past few weeks, as the number of countries in a complete lockdown and where movie theaters were ordered to close their doors has increased: besides China, Italy, and South Korea, Spain, France are also closed for a total of 32 international markets.

Disney and Pixar’s youthful fantasy flick Onward was the top finisher in this weekend’s exciting box office race. It opened wide in the US at 4,310 locations and took in a relatively healthy $40 million from its showings over the three-day Friday through Sunday period.

Major fireworks went off for Spider-Man: Far from Home as Sony's second co-production with Marvel Studios netted a massive $185 million over the Fourth of July holiday. Sony opted to open their latest Spider movie two days ahead of the midweek national holiday in the US.

It’s always interesting to see what stars choose to wear for press conferences. Sometimes they pull an old favorite from their closet, sometimes they have a stylist create a look for them.

The young and the fashion fabulous dominated the red carpet round-up this week. An emerging crop of twentysomethings has taken over the red carpet and showed why they are the new stars.

Spider-Man: Homecoming, Sony’s second reboot of the Marvel franchise starring Stan Lee’s teenage superhero, is the sixth Spidey film in fifteen years and finds Tom Holland following in the footsteps of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.  Following Captain America: Civil War, this iteration, directed by Jon Watts, follows young Spidey’s dealings with Tony Stark as a rookie Avengers prospect.