AMC Posts Its Biggest Day of Ticket Sales in Nearly 2 Years
AMC Theatres rode the “opening weekend strength” of Spider-Man: No Way Home to sell more than 7 million tickets globally Thursday-Sunday, including 5 million in the U.S., said the theater chain Monday. More than 2 million people watched a movie…
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at an AMC location around the world on Saturday, the most tickets it sold in a single day since Christmas Day 2019, it said. Imax reported separately Monday that it took in $36.2 million in Spider-Man revenue on 834 screens across 77 markets globally, including $22 million in North America. It was its sixth biggest global opening weekend ever, it said. Spider-Man overall took in $334.2 million in its debut weekend, smashing expectations of $160 million-$170 million, Colliers analyst Steven Frankel wrote investors Monday. Despite the "raging coronavirus," the U.K. was the film's strongest market with a $41.4 million box office, making it the fourth highest opening of all time, Frankel said.