Spider-Man: Brand New Day keeps swinging to new box office heights.
Sony Pictures‘ superhero blockbuster has now soared to become the No. 2 highest-grossing film ever domestically with $858.4 million, surpassing the $858.3 million for 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. The title to beat on the all-time North American chart remains 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, standing strong at $936.6 million. This follows the news last week that Brand New Day had become the fastest movie to hit $800 million domestically, doing so in 19 days.
Over the weekend, the Tom Holland-led film that hails from Marvel Studios had surpassed 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home to briefly occupy the No. 3 spot on the all-time domestic box office chart. This also placed Brand New Day as Sony’s highest-grossing domestic film after it set the record over the previous weekend for the top global release in the studio’s history.
As of Sunday, Brand New Day claimed the No. 6 spot on the all-time worldwide box office rankings with $2.22 billion, moving past The Force Awakens with $2.07 billion. Any day now, the latest Spidey movie is expected to overtake Titanic, which currently holds No. 5 with $2.26 billion globally, while Chinese animated fantasy feature Ne Zha 2 looms nearby at No. 4 with $2.27 billion.
Zendaya, Sadie Sink and Jon Bernthal also star in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton’s movie approaching its fifth weekend of release after launching in theaters July 31. Its record-breaking run has included surpassing Endgame for the biggest domestic opening weekend ever with $360 million. It went on to earn the highest-grossing first week in domestic box office history and become the second-fastest film (after Endgame) to reach $1 billion globally.
Among the new offerings hitting theaters this weekend are Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars, starring Jacob Elordi; the resurrected Coyote vs. Acme; and the horror-comedy flick Buddy.
Brand New Day has helped 2026’s box office standing overall. As of Sunday, the 2026 domestic box office has crossed the $7 billion mark, according to Rentrak, putting the year 20.4 percent above 2025’s returns. Additionally, this summer’s titles combine for an estimated $4.444 billion domestically as of Sunday to come in 25.5 percent above last year’s tally to that point, with the all-time summer mark remaining 2013’s $4.75 billion.
When asked about the film succeeding amid apparent superhero fatigue for other recent titles, given that this summer’s Supergirl was among those to have underperformed, Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman told The Hollywood Reporter that he didn’t see this as a concern.
“The press talks a lot about that, but right now, on anything, the theatrical audience demands greatness,” Rothman said. “If it’s only OK, they can stay home and see ‘only OK’ all day long on television. If we’re going to ask them make a trip out of it, it’s got to be great. The answer is as simple as that.”
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