NEW YORK CITY: "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" opened in North American theaters with a massive $120.5 million, more than tripling the debut of the 2018 animated original and showing the kind of movie-to-movie box-office growth that would be the envy of even the mightiest of Hollywood franchises.

Sony Pictures' "Across the Spider-Verse," the multiverse-spanning animated Spider-Man spinoff, sailed way past expectations, according to studio estimates on Sunday, riding terrific reviews (95 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and strong buzz for the hotly anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-winning "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse."

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