Spider-Man swings onto box office records

Zendaya (left) and Tom Holland in Spider-Man: No Way Home
Tom Holland and Zendaya - a couple on and off the screen - star in Spider-Man: No Way Home. -AP

The jury is still out on whether Spider-Man: No Way Home is a Christmas movie, but it certainly dominated the Christmas box office - becoming the first film of the COVID-19 pandemic to cross $US 1 billion ($A1.4 billion) in ticket sales, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.

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