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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Comes Close to Passing Avengers: Endgame With Second Biggest Box Office Debut of All Time at $927 Million Globally
Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the latest instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, achieved an estimated $927 million at the global box office over its opening weekend, making it the second-biggest opening in box office history. It narrowly missed overtaking Avengers: Endgame's 2019 record, though it did secure the biggest-ever opening for a Sony or Spider-Man film and helped drive the highest collective domestic box office weekend on record.
Domestically, the film starring Tom Holland and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton took an estimated $355 million across 4,487 theatres, with a further $572 million from international markets. This falls just short of Endgame's $357.1 million domestic and $1.2 billion global opening, though the domestic gap is close enough that final Sunday figures could still shift the ranking. The film did set records for the biggest preview and opening-day sales of all time, and contributed the bulk of a record $430 million domestic weekend total, ahead of releases including The Odyssey, Toy Story 5, Minions & Monsters and Moana.
In short
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens to $927 million globally, second-biggest ever
- Falls just short of Avengers: Endgame's 2019 opening weekend record
- Sets all-time records for preview and opening-day ticket sales
Explained simply
Spider-Man is a Marvel superhero whose films are made by Sony, while this latest film is also part of the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe, a series of connected superhero stories. Tom Holland plays Spider-Man, and the character’s films have become some of Sony’s biggest releases.
Avengers: Endgame brought together many Marvel heroes and set a major opening-weekend box-office record in 2019. Opening figures measure ticket sales over a film’s first few days, and are often estimates before cinemas report final totals.
These records matter to film studios because a strong opening can shape expectations for a film’s overall success and future releases. The weekend total also reflects audiences’ interest across several films released at the same time.
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