North American box office | The latest Spider-Man rises to the top

(Washington) The latest installment in the Spider-Man saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseflew for its first week at the top of the North American box office, according to estimates on Sunday by the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations.

The hero, propelled into a world made of parallel dimensions (multiverse) which Hollywood now loves, collected $ 120 million in box office receipts in Canada and the United States, a particularly successful start, doing better than the last opus.

We find Miles Morales, the new face of Spider-Man who appeared in the comics in 2011. A popular teenager from Brooklyn, the son of a Latino nurse and an African-American policeman, he was, like the original hero of the saga Peter Parker, 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 The little Mermaid from Disney, leading last week for its first days in theaters.

The new version of the 1989 cartoon is still set in the Caribbean of the 1830s, on the edge of a fictional island. In the sea lives 18-year-old mermaid Ariel (Halle Bailey), the youngest of the seven daughters of King Triton (Javier Bardem), who rules the oceans from her underwater kingdom.

At the bottom of the podium figure The Boogeymana horror film based on a short story by American writer Stephen King, which grossed $12.3 million.

The Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 arrives in 4^e position with $10.2 million in revenue. The third part of the saga, which features a team of intergalactic mercenaries, this time plunges viewers into a race against time to save the raccoon Rocket.

Fast Xthe latest installment in the action movie franchise Fast and dangeroustake 5^e place with $9.2 million in revenue.