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Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Remains No. 1 in Sixth Weekend, Nears ‘Avengers: Endgame’ All-Time Domestic Record
"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" topped the North American box office for a sixth consecutive weekend, taking $18 million and pushing its domestic total to $923 million. This unusually long run at No. 1 — the longest since "Avatar: The Way of Water" in 2022 — highlights both the film's staying power and a thin field of competing releases, and puts it on course to overtake "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" as the highest-grossing domestic release of all time.
The Tom Holland-led film has now earned $2.4 billion worldwide, making it the third-biggest release ever behind "Avatar" and "Avengers: Endgame". Its dominance capped the strongest cinema summer since the pandemic, with domestic ticket sales reaching $4.73 billion between May and early September, the second-highest total on record. However, the Labor Day weekend itself was notably weak, with new releases "By Any Means" ($7.4 million), "Fall 2: Deadpoint" ($2.3 million) and "Onslaught" all underperforming.
In short
- "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" leads US box office for sixth straight weekend
- Film nearing all-time domestic record with $923 million earned so far
- Best cinema summer since 2020, but Labor Day new releases flopped
Explained simply
The domestic box office measures ticket sales in the United States and Canada, while the worldwide total includes cinemas across the globe. A film’s position in the weekly rankings reflects how much it earns compared with other films that weekend; a long run at number one can reflect both strong audience interest and a lack of competing releases.
Spider-Man is a Marvel superhero, and Tom Holland plays him in a series of films connected to the wider Marvel universe. The domestic record is a measure of ticket revenue, not the number of tickets sold, and films released in different years can also face different ticket prices and cinema markets.
Box office results offer one way to gauge cinema audiences and the health of cinemas, though they do not show how much a film makes after production, marketing and cinema costs. Summer is a particularly important period for film releases, so its overall ticket sales are often compared with previous summers.
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