Spider man 2023

Sony’s ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ far exceeded projections in the $80-million range. ‘You never want to underestimate Spider-Man,’ says one analyst. Rounding out the top three movies in the United States and Canada this weekend was Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid,” which earned $22.8 million in its third weekend for a North American cumulative of $228.8 million, Comscore reported. “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” slightly exceeded Don’t worry, it was a short drop. Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback are trapped in the seventh installment of the franchise, a lurching, sputtering vehicle spewing profoundly silly Autobot-lore. Directed by Steven Caple Jr., “Rise of the Beasts” introduces the fan-favorite Autobots to a new league of Transformers called the Maximals. Set in the 1990s, the period film stars Anthony Ramos of “In the Heights” and Dominique Fishback of “Swarm.” The latest “Transformers” movie received a mediocre 53% rotten rating on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes and an A-minus grade from audiences polled by CinemaScore. “It took five screenwriters to come up with this utter nonsense that has all the dramatic intrigue and emotional depth of a ‘Transformers’ Saturday morning cartoon,” writes film critic Katie Walsh for Tribune News Service. “‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ feels like a film that is at war with itself as Caple Jr. tries to balance character work with the profoundly silly Autobot lore ... Unable to rise abo...