Spider-Man: Homecoming Climbs To $117 Million At Opening Weekend Box Office

Spider-Man just moved to the top of his class at the box office.

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Spider-Man: Homecoming is projected to earn $117 million from 4,348 locations in North America in its opening weekend. That’s well above the studio estimates of $80-90 million for the film, which carries a $175 million production budget.

These numbers make Spider-Man: Homecoming the second-largest domestic opening for a Sony Pictures film ever behind Spider-Man 3‘s $151 million in 2007.

Spider-Man: Homecoming earned $15.4 million from early screenings on Thursday night, which is the third-highest Thursday night preview gross of 2017 behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($17 million) and Beauty and the Beast ($16.3 million). The film is estimated to have earned $51.5 million by the end of Friday.

With Spider-Man: Homecoming being the only major debut this weekend, last week’s chart-topper Despicable Me 3 holds onto the number two spot. Despicable Me 3 earned about $11.4 million on Friday and is set to earn $37.3 million in its second weekend, propelling its box office total to $152.4 million.

Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver continues to perform well. The film slides from number two to number three this week, earning $3.9 million on Friday and an estimated $13 million over the weekend for a box office total of $57.1 million.

DC Film’s latest, Wonder Woman, maintains its place in the top five. Wonder Woman is clinging to the fourth place spot with $2.9 million on Friday and an estimated $9.9 million for the weekend, bringing the DC Extended Universe’s highest domestic grossing film to $368.6 million in total.

Transformers: The Last Knight managed to keep within the top five, dropping from third place to fifth with a $1.8 million Friday total and $6 million for the weekend.

Cars 3 slips into the sixth place spot. Pixar’s latest earned $1.7 million on Friday and is set for $5.6 million over the weekend.

Keep reading to see how the top five films stack up at the box office this weekend.

1. Spider-Man: Homecoming

Opening Weekend
Friday: $51.5 million
Weekend: $117 million

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, young Peter Parker returns home to live with his Aunt May. Under the watchful eye of mentor Tony Stark, Parker starts to embrace his newfound identity as Spider-Man. He also tries to return to his normal daily routine — distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just a friendly neighborhood superhero. Peter must soon put his powers to the test when the evil Vulture emerges to threaten everything that he holds dear.

Spider-Man: Homecoming is directed by Jon Watts, from a screenplay by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Watts and Christopher Ford, and Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Spider-Man: Homecoming stars Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Donald Glover, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, and Robert Downey Jr.

2. Despicable Me 3

Week Two
Last Week: No. 1Friday: $11.4 million
Weekend: $37.3 million
Total: $152.4 million

The mischievous Minions hope that Gru will return to a life of crime after the new boss of the Anti-Villain League fires him. Instead, Gru decides to remain retired and travel to Freedonia to meet his long-lost twin brother for the first time. The reunited siblings soon find themselves in an uneasy alliance to take down the elusive Balthazar Bratt, a former 1980s child star who seeks revenge against the world.

Despicable Me 3 is directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, co-directed by Eric Guillon, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. The film stars the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig and Trey Parker.

3. Baby Driver

Week Two
Last Week: No. 2Friday: $3.9 million
Weekend: $13 million
Total: $57.1 million

Talented getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. After meeting the woman (Lily James) of his dreams, he sees a chance to ditch his shady lifestyle and make a clean break. Coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), Baby must face the music as a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.

Baby Driver is written and directed by Edgar Wright, and stars Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Bernthal, Eiza González, Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx.

4. Wonder Woman

Week Six
Last Week: No. 4Friday: $3.1 million
Weekend: $9.9 million
Total: $368.6 million

Gal Gadot returns as the title character in the epic action-adventure from director Patty Jenkins. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.

Wonder Woman is directed by Patty Jenkins and is written by Allan Heinberg, Geoff Johns, and Zack Snyder. The film stars Gal Gadot (Diana Prince/Wonder Woman), Chris Pine (Steve Trevor), Robin Wright (General Antiope), Connie Nielsen (Queen Hippolyta), David Thewlis, Elena Anaya, Lucy Davis (Etta Candy), Danny Huston, Ewen Bremmer, Doutzen Kroes, Samantha Jo (Euboea), Florence Kasumba (Senator Acantha), Said Taghmaoui, Eleanor Matsuura (Epione), Emily Carey (Young Diana), and Lisa Loven Kongsli (Menalippe).

5. Transformers: The Last Knight

Week Three
Last Week: No. 3Friday: $1.8 MillionWeekend: $6 Million
Total:$118.6 million

Transformers: The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock).

There comes a moment in everyone’s life when we are called upon to make a difference. In Transformers: The Last Knight, the hunted will become heroes. Heroes will become villains. Only one world will survive: theirs, or ours.

Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci will reprise their roles from Transformers: Age of Extinction. Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and John Turturro reprise their roles for the first three Transformers movies. The film also stars Isabela Moner, Laura Haddock, Anthony Hopkins, Santiago Cabrera, Liam Garrigan, Jerrod Carmichael, and Mitch Pileggi.

Transformers: The Last Knight’s voice cast includes Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, John Goodman as Hound, and John DiMaggio as Crosshairs. Other transformers appearing the film include Bumblebee, Drift, Hot Rod, Cogman, Canopy, Sqweeks, Grimlock, Megatron, Barricade, Onslaught, Hooligan, and Mohawk.