Spider-Man: No Way Home is expected to be the biggest hit of the last two years, and while that is not difficult considering the circumstances, even without a global pandemic crippling the industry for a large portion of that time it is likely the movie would still have been on track to post record-breaking stats. As tickets went on advance sale for the December release, numerous websites including AMC, Regal and Fandango were al taken offline due to the surge in demand which crashed their servers, and as others followed many of the sites struggled with the continuous flow of visitors in the hours after. AMC introduced a queuing system on their site to allow people to be able to get through and book in an orderly fashion, which seemed to alleviate the situation a little although demand for Spider-Man: No Way Home continued to be high.

While the Disney/Marvel Studios marketing machine went into overdrive with new TV spots announcing the presale and featuring new footage to that seen in previous trailers, the phenomenal demand for tickets has proven once again that Spider-Man continues to be one of Marvel’s biggest and most reliable assets. With Spider-Man: No Way Home expected to signal a conclusion to the MCU’s Spider-Man trilogy, there is a lot of focus and attention on the movie, the likes of which were last seen in Avengers: Endgame.

We all know by now that the movie will feature villains from all previous Spider-Man universes, from Green Goblin to The Lizard, and even though both actors have denied it, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield are fully expected to reprise their Spider-Man roles from their own movies, and with many fans threatening to abandon Marvel if it isn’t so, there is a lot riding on them making a meaningful appearance in a sizable chunk of the story.

Of course, Spider-Man: No Way Home has more than just its own story riding on its outcome, as the film will lead directly into next year’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and is already being cited as the most ambitious superhero movie ever made by Holland and director Jon Watts, who also helmed Holland’s previous Spider-Man outings of Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, and has described the new movie as “Spider-Man: Endgame.” Where this all leaves Tom Holland’s iteration of Spider-Man will have to wait until December to be revealed, while the outcome for Doctor Strange and the rest of the MCU will continue in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Marvel have already been playing with fans, altering footage in the trailers released so far, changing certain scenes between their appearance in the full trailers and the subsequent TV spots, which has frustrated some fans, but is also one of Marvel’s signatures when it comes to their biggest releases. Just like with most MCU releases, Marvel Studios want fans to head into theaters with the ability to be surprised by a movie, no matter how many trailers and clips they put out as part of the regular promotion schedule. How much of what we have seen in the trailers transpires in the final cut of the movie, is something we can’t wait to discover, in the cinema, when the movie is released later in December. This news comes to us from ComicBook.com