Box Office: 'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Is the Second Largest 4th of July Movie Ever

Happy 4th of July to Spidey: "Spider-Man: Far From Home" delivered $185 million debut from 4,636 venues in North America during its first six days in theaters.

The film, the second solo movie with Transformers: Dark of the Moon," which took in $97.8 million in 2011.

"Far From Home" also set a number of other records this week, including biggest Tuesday ticket sales of all time ($38 million), best Wednesday grosses for a Marvel movie ($27 million) and Sony’s biggest six-day opening weekend ever. (Sony and Marvel teamed up on this one. Ownership of Spider-Man has been complicated.)

Also opening this weekend was folk horror film "Ari Aster. The R-rated movie took in $6 million over the weekend and $10.9 million during its first five days of release.

The film stars The Ritual," we are rethinking any plans to travel to Sweden soon, thanks very much.)

"Midsommar" received mostly positive reviews, but audiences gave it a  C+ CinemaScore. That's better than the "D+" handed out to "Hereditary," but it also indicates some people might have been scared off from any more Aster films after "Hereditary," an equally dark film about grief and messed-up family dynamics.

"Midsommar" took in roughly half of the $13 million “Hereditary” made in its inaugural weekend. “Hereditary" is  still A24’s highest-grossing movie to date with $44 million in North America and $79 million globally.

Meanwhile, Disney-Marvel’s "Avatar." This weekend, it earned  $3.1 million at the domestic box office and another $1.4 million overseas for a global tally of $2.77 billion. It’s now roughly $15 million behind "Avatar," which still holds the record as the biggest movie of all time with $2.78 billion in ticket sales.

[Via Variety]