Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider - Man : Homecomingjust edge past the firstIron Manat the domestic box office . Sony and Marvel Studios ' re - imagining of Spidey as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been aglobal success , get in over $ 737 million worldwide and running not too far behindGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2domestically . Iron Mangot the MCU started back in 2008 and was a massive success in its own right ; its gradual tumble down the list of most successful MCU flick shows just how well the mega - franchise has performed in the years since .
It may be a slow summertime season overall at the picture show , butHomecomingcan be counted as one of its bigwinners . The movie drewcritical acclaim , due in no small part to the carrying into action of Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider - Man and Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man . Homecoming’sdomestic total alone far outpace its $ 175 million budget - and the flick can now say that it was a bigger achiever in North America thanIron Manever was .
As it presently reads onBox Office Mojo , Sunday ’s domestic loge office numbers pool leaveHomecomingat the $ 318.8 million mark , which officially pushes it pastIron Man’sdomestic total of $ 318.4 million . Its $ 737 million worldwide aggregate had already bestedIron Man’s$585 million . Homecomingwill likely finish its theatrical run as the seventh - highest - gross MCU picture in the U.S. , just behindGuardians of the Galaxy’s$333 million .
Homecomingis unlikely to catch any of Sony ’s first threeSpider - Manmovies at the domestic box office . But it has already far outpaced bothAmazing Spider - Manmovies , which domestically grossed $ 262 million and $ 202 million , respectively . Since there are no current plans to makeIron Man 4- and that Tony Stark could even possibly die in next year’sAvengers : Infinity War- the firstIron Manwill proceed to be the standard to which futureHomecomingsequels are compared .
Robert Downey Jr. will , of course of instruction , keep to portray Tony Stark / Iron Man inInfinity Warand potentially theHomecomingsequel planned for 2019 . Though he could be compose out of the MCU inInfinity War , Downey Jr. ’s chemistry with Holland as Peter Parker would be hard to go along up in the sequel and impossible to duplicate with a unlike character . If the nextHomecomingmovie go about the quality of the first , it has a prospect to once again outpaceIron Manat the box power .
The biggest factor in Downey Jr. ’s future in the MCU as Tony Stark is , of course , Downey Jr. himself . Though the A - middlebreaker has tell before that he feels like hecould do one moreIron Manmovie , he also recently said he want toretire from the MCU"before it ’s embarrassing . “So Downey Jr. ’s theatrical role in the MCU afterInfinity Warremains hard up in the air - butSpider - Man : Homecomingnonetheless remains a major succeeder thanks in part to his talents .
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