There’s a certain amount of irony to Spider-Man: Homecoming displacing Wonder Woman as the top-grossing superhero movie on the current box-office chart.
The very thing that kept Wonder Woman out of theaters for so long is the exact same thing that is keeping it in theaters for so long, even in a marketplace swamped with superheroes.
As it turns out, Wonder Woman’s continuing success in theaters means that it has achieved something that no movie since the original Spider-Man has accomplished: A total domestic gross that is nearly four times its opening weekend numbers.
People are still going to see Wonder Woman, or they’re going back to see it again and again.