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Marvel’s Spider-Man sequel breaks all-time US opening weekend record
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Marvel and Sony's *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* has taken $360 million (US) at the North American box office in its opening weekend, setting a new all-time domestic opening record and overtaking the previous benchmark set by *Avengers: Endgame*. The result marks a significant milestone for the Spider-Man franchise and underscores the continued box-office pull of Marvel films even as the wider superhero genre has faced mixed fortunes in recent years.
The film opened across 4,487 North American screens, taking in around $5 million more than had been projected by Sunday, and surpassed the $357.1 million *Avengers: Endgame* earned from 4,662 screens back in April 2019. Globally, *Brand New Day* has already grossed $927 million, ahead of the $911.4 million *The Odyssey* had made after three weeks in cinemas, though *Endgame* remains the faster film to reach $2 billion overall, achieving that in just 11 days on its way to a final total of $2.799 billion.
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In short
- *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* set a new US opening weekend record with $360m.
- It overtook *Avengers: Endgame*'s previous $357.1m record from 2019.
- The film has already made $927m globally within its opening weekend.
How this story developed
- 3 months ago Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to a record-breaking $360 million domestically across 4,487 North American cinemas, overtaking Avengers: Endgame's previous $357.1 million debut and pushing its global tally to $927 million ahead of The Odyssey's three-week haul, though still trailing Endgame's eventual $2.799 billion total.
Explained simply
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the latest big-screen outing for Marvel's Spider-Man, made jointly by Sony Pictures, which owns the film rights to the character, and Marvel Studios, which oversees the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe. It arrives in cinemas as one of the most closely watched releases of the year, given the character's long history as one of Hollywood's most reliable box-office draws.
The film's early takings are being measured against the "opening weekend" record, a standard industry benchmark that tracks how much a film earns in North American cinemas in its first three days of release. That record was previously held by Avengers: Endgame, the 2019 finale to a long-running series of Marvel superhero films that became one of the highest-grossing movies ever made.
Box-office records like this matter to the film industry because they are seen as a gauge of a franchise's popularity and of the broader health of the cinema business, particularly for the superhero genre, which some had suggested was losing its pulling power after a run of weaker results in recent years.
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Originally published by Consequence as “Spider-Man: Brand New Day Swings Past Avengers: Endgame with Record-Setting $360M Opening Weekend”.