What the Success of <em>Spider-Man</em> Means for Hollywood in 2022
<em>Spider-Man: No Way Home</em> bodes well for cinemas. Yet smaller-budget films might get left behind.
Until the return of Spider-Man, every film’s box-office performance during the pandemic had come with an asterisk. Some movies, such as Black Widow and The Suicide, were available to stream the day they opened in cinemas, helping explain somewhat depressed ticket sales. Others, such as and , relied on international revenue to boost domestic takes that were middling by pre-coronavirus standards.
