Marvel’s Spider-Man reboot sets record $360m opening weekend
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Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures' Spider-Man: Brand New Day has broken box office records with a $360 million (about £284 million) opening weekend in North America, edging out Avengers: Endgame's previous record of $357.1 million from 2019. The film has also amassed $932 million (roughly £735 million) globally, underlining the enduring commercial power of the Spider-Man franchise and Marvel's box-office dominance more broadly.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker alongside Sadie Sink, the film has also won praise from critics for its handling of a storyline drawn from the original X-Men films, which had previously attracted criticism. Further details of the film's reception and box-office trajectory are still emerging as coverage continues to develop.
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaks record with $360m US opening
- Global earnings reach $932m, surpassing Avengers: Endgame's 2019 record
- Stars Tom Holland and Sadie Sink; praised for X-Men storyline handling
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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.
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