The hero, propelled into a world made of parallel dimensions (multiverse) that Hollywood now loves, has collected $ 120 million in theaters in Canada and the United States, a particularly successful debut, doing better than the last opus.
We find Miles Morales, new face of Spider-Man appeared in 2011 in the comics. A cool teenager from Brooklyn, the son of a Latino nurse and an African-American police officer, he was, like the original hero of the Peter Parker saga, bitten by a radioactive spider and swings between the skyscrapers of Manhattan to fight crime.
This new version, by mixing the timeless pencil stroke of comics with the latest computer-assisted animation techniques, spawns with auteur cinema - a visibly popular recipe.
In second place is, with $ 40.6 million, the live-action version of Disney's "The Little Mermaid", in the lead last week for its first days in theaters.
The remake of the 1989 cartoon is still set in the 1830s Caribbean, on the edge of a fictional island. In the sea lives Ariel (Halle Bailey), an 18-year-old mermaid, the youngest of the seven daughters of King Triton (Javier Bardem) who rules the oceans from his underwater kingdom.
At the bottom of the podium is "The Bogeyman", a horror film based on a short story by American writer Stephen King, which collects $ 12.3 million in revenue.
The Marvel movie "Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3" comes in 4th place with $ 10.2 million in revenue. The third part of the saga, which features a team of intergalactic mercenaries, this time plunges spectators into a race against time to save the raccoon Rocket.
"Fast X", the latest installment in the action movie franchise, "Fast & Furious", takes 5th place with $9.2 million in revenue.
Here are the rest of the top 10:
6. "Super Mario Bros. the Movie" ($3.4 million)
7. "My Father and I" (2.1 million)
8. "The Machine" (1.8 million)
9. "You Hurt My Feelings" (770,000)
10. "Kandahar" (765,000)
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