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Box Office: “Spider Man” Crosses $900 Million, But Newer Entries Like “By Any Means” and “Dog Stars” Scratch to Find Customers

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Drum roll, please.

“Spider Man” is now at $903 million. This feat took 37 days, and the end is not in sight. Even when you think it’s slowing down, the 9th Spider Man movie just keeps going.

The rest of the Labor Day weekend box office is is a bit dreary. “By Any Means” opened to $2.6 million. Cracking $10 million will be its goal. The chief selling point is a good original song by Diane Warren. The song will outlive the movie.

Really dead is “The Dog Stars” with just $11 million. It cost $100 million and isn’t going anywhere except to video. Certainly a disappointment for newish star Jacob Elordi as he builds his career.

A24’s “Tony,” which got top reviews, is stalling out now at around $12 million. If the studio wants awards attention they’re going to have to spend many times that number to get there. Is it worth it? I don’t know. They will go hard on “The Invite,” which is running out at $25 million.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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