'Spider-Mondays' Initiated For Spider-Man’s Part In Columbia Pictures 100th Anniversary Celebration
'Spider-Mondays' Initiated For Spider-Man’s Part In Columbia Pictures 100th Anniversary Celebration
All eight live-action Spider-Man movies will have single-night engagements from April to June
With great power comes great responsibility to celebrate longevity. As part of Columbia Pictures’ 100th Anniversary celebration, all eight live-action Spider-Man films, spanning the 20 years from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man in 2002 to Jon Watts’s Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021, are heading back to theaters every Monday starting April 15, for single-day engagements being called Spider-Mondays.
According to the official website, there’s no chain exclusivity but it’s not going to be in every theater. Not only are these one day only, but these are largely single showings at 6, 6:30, or 7 PM local time. My local results for Spider-Man were mostly 7 PM showings, and only one location had a second showing at a later time (it was 10 PM, for those curious). The successive weeks go in chronological order, meaning the Raimi trilogy starring Tobey Maguire closes out April, with Spider-Man 2 on April 22 and Spider-Man 3 on April 29. From there, Marc Webb’s Andrew Garfield-starring Amazing films step in, with The Amazing Spider-Man on May 6 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on May 13. The first trilogy of Sacred Timeline-set films, directed by Watts and starring Tom Holland, finish out the run with Spider-Man: Homecoming on May 20, Spider-Man: Far From Home on May 27, and Spider-Man: No Way Home closing it out on June 3.
The original Raimi trilogy was known for kicking off the summer movie season in that first weekend in May slot, doing bangers at the box office, and making such a viable weekend for the superhero genre. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 would be the only non-Marvel Studios Marvel film to open in that position in the 8 years from The Avengers to Avengers: Endgame. Captain America: The Winter Soldier opened 4 weeks earlier in 2014 and Endgame and the preceding film Infinity War had the earned confidence to open on the last week in April instead and still dominate on those first weeks in May that became the films’ second weeks out.
One probably notices that the Spider-Man Universe’s Venom films, Morbius, and Madame Web are absent. To put it lightly, that’s probably for the best. In addition, the animated Spider-Verse films are missing too, which might be disappointing, but Across the Spider-Verse already had a rerelease in January. Whether that was more for awards campaigning might be the case, but it already has a rerelease during the anniversary celebration year may just have been enough. It's also far less time than it has been since No Way Home: The More Fun Stuff Version. Seven of the eight films of this event are streaming on Disney+, with No Way Home still awaiting arrival. A trailer has been released that can be watched below.
Source: SpideyMovies.com