Box Office: December 17-20, 2021: SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME, ENCANTO, WEST SIDE STORY, & More

Box Office: December 17-20, 2021

The theatrical movie box office results for December 17, 2021 through December 20, 2021 have been released.

Spider-Man: No Way Home premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office with $235 Million. That is the third best weekend opening of all time and it makes Spider-Man: No Way Home the highest grossing film of 2021. World-wide, the film has made $587.2 Million.

Encanto was Second for the second week in a row at the box office with $6.5 Million.

West Side Story was Third at the United States box office with $3.4 Million.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife was Fourth with $3.4 Million for $117.2 Million so far. World-wide, the film has made $173.6 Million.

Nightmare Alley was Fifth at the box office with $2.9 Million.

These films: House of Gucci, Eternals, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, and Venom: Let There be Carnage rounded out the Top Ten respectively.

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Spider-Man: No Way Home is a 2021 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and is the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Jon Watts and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire. In the film, Parker asks Dr. Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch) to make his identity as Spider-Man a secret again with magic following its public revelation in Far From Home, but this breaks open the multiverse, allowing supervillains from alternate realities who have fought versions of Parker to enter his universe.

Nightmare Alley is a 2021 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro from a screenplay by del Toro and Kim Morgan, based on the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham. The film features an ensemble cast including Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn. It is the second feature film adaptation of Gresham’s novel, following the 1947 version. The film focuses on Stan Carlisle (Cooper), an ambitious carny, who hooks up with a corrupt psychiatrist, Dr. Lilith Ritter (Blanchett), who proves to be as dangerous as he is.

Next week sees the release of: The King’s Man, The Matrix Resurrections, Sing 2, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Spider-Man: No Way Home will be Number One at the box office for the second week in a row.

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