Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to the biggest weekend in the history of movies, and three weekends later it is still on the board chasing Avengers: Endgame for second place all time.
It hits its fourth weekend today against a new Insidious sequel, and the number it is hunting has stood since 2019.
The Opening Broke the Record
360.1 million dollars domestic in three days, beating the 357.1 million that Avengers: Endgame posted in 2019. It made 168 million on its first day alone.
Records like this get broken by inches and this one was broken by three million dollars, which in box office terms is a rounding error and in headline terms is everything. Endgame held the mark for seven years.
It crossed a billion dollars worldwide in six days and became the second fastest film ever to two billion.
Where It Sits Now
Roughly 803.9 million domestic and 2.04 billion worldwide, with 1.24 billion of that from international markets.
The third weekend brought in 71 million, the second best third frame in history. The weekly declines have been 60 percent and then 51 percent, which for a film that opened this enormous is unusually gentle. Movies that open on hype fall off a cliff. Movies that open on hype and hold have word of mouth doing the work.
The Reviews Explain the Legs
90 percent from critics and 98 percent from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. That audience number is the one that matters for a fourth weekend.
A 98 means people are recommending it to other people rather than just showing up on opening night because they always do. The MCU has spent several years releasing films that opened strong and evaporated, and the difference here is entirely in the second and third weekends.
Who Is In It
Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon return. Destin Daniel Cretton directed. The supporting cast includes Jon Bernthal as the Punisher, Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Sadie Sink, Michael Mando as Scorpion and Tramell Tillman.
It is the 38th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it cost 225 million dollars to make, which against two billion in receipts is the kind of ratio that ends arguments inside a studio.
What It Is Up Against This Weekend
Insidious: Out of the Further opens today from Sony, directed by Jacob Chase and starring Amelia Eve, tracking for 23 to 28 million.
Jason Statham’s Mutiny opens from Lionsgate tracking 6 to 11 million. Neither is a threat to the top spot. Horror sequels and Statham action films have reliable floors and low ceilings, and both are counterprogramming rather than competition.
The Other Record Falling This Weekend
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is in its sixth weekend at Universal and is projected to pass The Dark Knight to become the highest grossing film of his career.
That is a quieter milestone and arguably a more impressive one. The Dark Knight has stood as Nolan’s peak since 2008 through Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk and Oppenheimer. Getting past it took an adaptation of a three thousand year old poem.
Can It Actually Catch Endgame
Endgame finished at 2.799 billion worldwide. Brand New Day is at 2.04 billion in three weekends with declines flattening out.
The remaining 760 million is a real gap and the film is past the phase where it earns 70 million a weekend. It will need a long tail, strong international holds and probably a re-release to get there. Second place all time is genuinely in play. First place, currently held by Avatar at 2.9 billion, is not. For related coverage of how casting news travels faster than accuracy, see our piece on the Sebastian Stan mistranslation.
What This Says About Theatrical
The story of the last five years has been that theatrical moviegoing is structurally diminished and that only a handful of titles can still summon a mass audience.
Both halves of that remain true. Brand New Day is not evidence that the business recovered. It is evidence that when the right film arrives, the audience is still there, in numbers that exceed anything the industry managed before streaming existed. Those are different claims and the second one is the one studios are actually betting on.
The comparison to Endgame deserves a little context, because the two films are chasing the record under very different conditions. Ticket prices have risen substantially since 2019, which inflates raw dollar totals relative to the number of tickets actually sold. A film can pass an older gross while selling meaningfully fewer admissions, and box office coverage often glosses over that distinction.
Premium format screens complicate the math further. A larger share of the modern opening weekend comes from higher priced formats, which lifts the average ticket price for a blockbuster well above the market average. The result is that the gross record and the attendance record have drifted apart from each other, and only one of them is the one everybody quotes.
None of that diminishes the achievement. Getting a very large number of people into theaters in a single weekend is harder now than it was in 2019, with more competing options at home and a shorter window before a title becomes available there. Doing it anyway is the part that matters to the studios watching this result.
The longer test is the second and third weekend hold. Opening weekend measures marketing and anticipation. What happens seven days later measures whether audiences told their friends, and that number is the one that determines whether a run ends near the record or well short of it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much has Spider-Man: Brand New Day made?
About 803.9 million domestic and 2.04 billion worldwide as of its fourth weekend.
Did it break the opening weekend record?
Yes. It opened to 360.1 million domestic, beating Avengers: Endgame’s 357.1 million from 2019.
When did it come out?
July 31, 2026. It is the 38th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Who directed it?
Destin Daniel Cretton, with Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon returning.
What else opens this weekend?
Insidious: Out of the Further from Sony and Jason Statham’s Mutiny from Lionsgate.
Can it pass Endgame?
For second place all time it would need to reach 2.799 billion. It is at 2.04 billion with slowing weekends, so it is possible but not assured.
