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Marvel’s Spider-Man reboot sets record $360m opening weekend
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the latest instalment in Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures' Spider-Man franchise, has broken the record for the biggest opening weekend in North American box office history, taking $360 million (about £284 million). This surpassed the previous record of $357.1 million set by Avengers: Endgame in 2019, underscoring the enduring commercial pull of the Spider-Man character and Marvel's continued dominance at the box office.
The film, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker alongside Sadie Sink, went on to gross $932 million (roughly £735 million) worldwide. It has also drawn praise from critics for its handling of a storyline drawing on the original X-Men films, an element of the plot that had attracted criticism ahead of release.
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In short
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaks record with $360m opening weekend
- Beats Avengers: Endgame's previous $357.1m record from 2019
- Film has grossed $932m globally, praised by critics
How this story developed
- 3 months ago Coverage settled into a fuller recap of the record-breaking $360 million opening and $932 million worldwide total, noting that further details on the film's reception and box-office run were still to come.
- 3 months ago Reporting broadened to confirm the film's $932 million global haul and to explain that its praised storyline follows on from Spider-Man: No Way Home's memory-erasing ending, fuelling discussion about where Peter Parker's arc goes next.
- 3 months ago Spider-Man: Brand New Day set a new North American opening-weekend record of $360 million, overtaking Avengers: Endgame's $357.1 million mark from 2019, while also earning critical praise for its handling of a previously divisive X-Men-inspired plot thread.
Explained simply
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the latest Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures film in the long-running Spider-Man series, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Tom Holland returns as Peter Parker, joined by Sadie Sink, continuing a franchise that has become one of the most commercially reliable in modern cinema.
Box office takings in the opening weekend are widely used as an early measure of a film's popularity and financial success, with major releases often compared against past record-holders such as Avengers: Endgame. These figures matter to studios, cinema chains and investors because they signal how well a film is likely to perform over its full run and can influence decisions about future sequels or spin-offs.
The film also draws on a storyline connected to the earlier X-Men film series, an older Marvel-related franchise made by a different studio, which had previously been a point of criticism among fans and critics. How a new film handles such material is often watched closely as a marker of quality within franchise film-making more broadly.