<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," Sony's newest chapter in the webslinger series, soared to North American box office domination in its weekend debut, Sunday estimates showed, cementing the resilience of one of Hollywood's biggest superhero juggernauts.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The animated offering featuring the voices of Shameik Moore, Haille Steinfeld and Issa Rae netted a cool $120 million domestically for the Friday-through-Sunday period, and another $88 million internationally, according to industry watcher Exhibitor Relations.</div><div><br></div><div>"This is an exceptionally good opening for an animation follow-up sequel," said analyst David A. Gross, adding the sequel has an "entirely fresh" look and is an example of "inspired commercial filmmaking."</div><div><br></div><div>The film picks up the story of half-Black, half-Latino Miles Morales, using an eye-popping blend of decades-old 2D comic book drawing techniques with the latest computer-generated visual effects.</div><div><br></div><div>Spidey dethroned Disney's live-action version of "The Little Mermaid," which raked in a similar amount in its debut the previous weekend and followed up with $40.6 million.</div><div><br></div><div>The remake of the 1989 animated tale of an underwater princess who gives up her voice in pursuit of true love on land stars pop singer Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, and Melissa McCarthy as the villainous Ursula.</div><div><br></div><div>"The Boogeyman" debuted in third with $12.3 million. The 20th Century Studios horror/mystery feature is the latest in a long line of films adapted from a Stephen King book, and one of its producers shepherded the hit show "Stranger Things" onto the small screen.</div><div><br></div><div>Slipping one spot to fourth was Disney's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" which added $10 million to its cumulative worldwide total of some $780 million.</div><div><br></div><div>Universal's action film "Fast X," part of the "Fast &amp; Furious" franchise, held fifth spot, earning $9.2 million.</div><div>Rounding out the top 10 were:</div><div><br></div><div>"The Super Mario Bros Movie" ($3.3 million)</div><div><br></div><div>"About My Father" ($2.1 million)</div><div><br></div><div>"The Machine" ($1.7 million)</div><div><br></div><div>"You Hurt My Feelings" ($770,000)</div><div><br></div><div>"Kandahar" ($765,000) ‍Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>