Guillermo del Toro faces Spider-Man

The new of “Spider-Man” and the return of Guillermo del Toro with “Nightmare Alley “They will try to enliven the US box office a week before Christmas and in one of the worst months of December in memory.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” opens in cinemas around the world under enormous expectation and with record numbers of advance sales that point to the third adventure of Tom Holland as Peter Parker could be the highest grossing premiere in recent years.

“ We are the first to be nervous about seeing the movie “, assured the Holland himself alongside his co-stars, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon , during an encounter with Efe.

Among the fans, the race to be one of the first to see “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has s gone dizzying: in the US, more than three million tickets were sold in 24 hours and in Mexico there were fights at the box office of some cinemas after the internet sales collapsed.

The two previous installments, “Spider-Man: Homecoming ”(2017) and“ Spider-Man: Far From Home ”(2019) grossed more than $ 2 billion in theaters together.

For your part, and after winning the Oscar for best film, Guillermo del Toro once again displays his universe on the big screen with “Nightmare Alley”, a return to “film noir” that fascinated Hollywood in the years 40 Y 50.

“ It is a visually spectacular film genre. It is, on the one hand, related to horror cinema by German expressionism but, on the other hand, it requires luxurious surfaces and a very delicate and detailed setting “, commented the filmmaker in a talk with Efe.

Del Toro’s status in the film industry has allowed him to achieve the impossible in a Hollywood dominated by franchises; having a “sufficient (but nothing extraordinary)” budget and a stellar cast (headed by Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett ) to shoot a very particular story with an impeccable invoice.

The film adapts the homonymous novel published in 1946 by William Lindsay Greshan, in which its protagonist learns in a circus on the outskirts of the city, full of characters on the social margins, until he decides to go to the capital, where he surrounds himself with a luxury that encloses another type of brutality.

Both Films will share the limelight with the remake of “West Side Story” which premiered last week to a disappointing gross of 10 million dollars in his first weekend.