'Spider-Man: No Way Home' smashes records with Thursday preview night

"Spider-Man: No Way Home" swung and hit big with $50 million at the Thursday night preview box office, according to Deadline, and $100 million is "likely" for Friday.

"It easily buries the previous high we’ve seen during the pandemic, that being for Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow at $13.2M," Deadline's Anthony D'Alessandro relayed. "It also blows away Sony’s previous Thursday preview high, which was for Spider-Man: Homecoming—the first Tom Holland MCU Spider-Man—which minted $15.4M in 2017.

"Among the all-time Thursday preview records—and granted that Spider-Man screenings started at 3 p.m.—the pic ranks behind 2019’s Avengers: Endgame ($60M, off 6 p.m. showtime starts) and 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($57M)," D'Alessandro continued.

"No Way Home" is the third installment is director Jon Watts' Spider-Man trilogy for Sony, starring Holland as the titular superhero. The film picks up after 2019's "Spider-Man: Far from Home," where Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) unmasked Spider-Man's identity. 

Now, Peter Parker has to seek help from Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to reverse it. Instead, the spell goes awry and opens the multiverse for villains from Spider-Man past to reappear.

Watch the trailer below.