Almost five years ago, Spider-Man: No Way Home swung into cinemas in the teeth of a Covid-19 surge, drove cooped-up film-goers to cinemas and opened to one of the biggest US debuts on record, pulling in US$260 million in December 2021. This weekend, Peter Parker is back – a little older, more world-weary and facing a far less forgiving market. Annual box office revenue for superhero films in 2026 is expected to be down around US$3.5 billion from the heady pre-pandemic years of 2017 to 2019, on...