Tonight on TV: over 1 billion at the box office, this film is one of Marvel’s biggest successes

Tonight on TV: over 1 billion at the box office, this film is one of Marvel’s biggest successes



Spider-Man far from home : one of Marvel’s last great successes

Before the Covid pandemic, 2019 had been a very profitable year for Marvel Studios. Three films were released during these 12 months, each of which was a success at the global box office. First with Captain Marvel (March 6, 2019), which he had collected more than a billion dollars in revenue. Then, less than two months later, Avengers: Endgame (April 24, 2019) began its theatrical release and would become the biggest hit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with $2.7 billion in revenue. The study could have stopped there. Except that the summer was also prolific Spider-Man: Far From Home (July 3, 2019).

Spider-Man: Far From Home ©Marvel Studios
Spider-Man: Far From Home ©Marvel Studios

Peter Parker’s second adventure as Tom Holland he had done a little better than Captain Marvel, surpassing it by about $500,000 in revenue. An impressive score that, at the time, he had made the greatest success of the Spider-Man license. A status that he maintained for two years, until Spider-Man: No Way Home almost $2 billion at the global box office. Furthermore, to this day, these two films are the last of the MCU to have exceeded one billion.

Peter Parker tackles Mysterio’s storyline

Spider-Man: Far From Home so it delighted fans when it was released. In particular because, in this work, Peter Parker and MJ they were much closer than in the first. Above all, the opportunity to see more Zendaya, who plays the heroine in the MCU. While going on a school trip to Europe, the two find themselves facing a new danger and Peter can’t hide the fact that he’s Spider-Man from MJ for long. The fault of Mysteryembodied for the occasion by Jake Gyllenhaalwho throughout the film proves to be very cunning in manipulating the superhero.

As he wrote Crazy movies in his review, through this antagonist, the Marvel film offered “a fascinating reflection on the spread of the conspiracy and the death of truth“. A theme included in effective entertainment which had been praised by much of the American press. This is demonstrated by his excellent average of 91% favorable reviews ON Rotten tomatoes. In France, reviews were more mixed. The proof with this average of 3.2/5 on Allociné based on 29 newspapers. A detail for Marvel Studios, undoubtedly very happy to have seen France accumulate over 3.2 million entries For Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Source: Cine Serie

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