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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Topping Box Office for Sixth Weekend in a Row
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"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" is set to top the North American box office for a sixth consecutive weekend, earning around $22 million over the four-day Labor Day frame. The Marvel and Sony film, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, has crossed $900 million domestically, making it only the second film ever to do so after "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," and is expected to soon overtake that film's all-time domestic record. It also matters as a rare box-office bright spot in an otherwise quiet post-summer weekend, with new releases performing modestly by comparison.
Globally, "Brand New Day" has now taken more than $2.33 billion, ranking third of all time behind "Avatar" and "Avengers: Endgame". Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," also starring Tom Holland, is expected to place second with roughly $16.4 million, bringing its domestic total to about $588.1 million. Among newcomers, Paramount's crime drama "By Any Means," starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Mark Wahlberg, is projected to earn around $7 million, while A24's "Onslaught," starring Adria Arjona, is expected to bring in about $2 million, a marked drop from last year's Labor Day leader, "Weapons," which took $48.7 million.
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In short
- "Brand New Day" leads box office for sixth straight weekend, nearing $900m milestone.
- Film could soon break "The Force Awakens'" all-time domestic record.
- New releases "By Any Means" and "Onslaught" open modestly this weekend.
How this story developed
- 2 months ago Sony and Marvel's "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" is set to top the North American box office for a sixth consecutive weekend over the Labor Day frame, earning roughly $22 million over four days.
- 2 months ago Sony and Marvel's "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" is set to top the North American box office for a sixth consecutive weekend, earning roughly $22 million over the four-day Labor Day frame.
- 2 months ago "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" is set to top the North American box office for a sixth consecutive weekend, earning around $22 million over the four-day Labor Day frame.
Full account
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has held on to the top spot at the North American box office for a sixth consecutive weekend, with the Sony and Marvel release on course to add roughly $22 million (£17.4 million) over the four-day Labor Day holiday. The Destin Daniel Cretton-directed film, starring Tom Holland, has now pushed past $900 million domestically, a threshold only previously reached by 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which remains the biggest domestic earner of all time on $936 million. With that record now within reach, attention is turning to whether Brand New Day can claim the all-time domestic crown outright in the coming weeks. Reports diverge slightly on how the milestone is framed: one outlet emphasises the speed of the achievement, noting the film reached $900 million in just 36 days, comfortably faster than the 50 days it took The Force Awakens, while another stresses the rarity of the feat itself, pointing out it is only the second picture ever to get there. Worldwide, the film's tally has climbed past $2.33 billion, putting it third on the all-time global chart behind Avatar and Avengers: Endgame, having overtaken Avatar: The Way of Water along the way.
Behind Spider-Man, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey continues its strong run in an eighth weekend of release, expected to add around $16.4 million over the four days and lift its domestic total to roughly $588 million. The Universal release also stars Holland, giving the actor a hand in both of the weekend's top two films. Further down the chart, other holdovers are said to be faring unevenly: the animated comedy Coyote vs. Acme is reportedly enjoying a solid second weekend push, while the dystopian drama The Dog Stars is said to be struggling to build on a weak opening.
Two new wide releases arrived without troubling the top of the chart. By Any Means, a period crime drama from director Elegance Bratton, casts Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an FBI agent despatched to 1960s Mississippi to investigate the murders of civil rights activists, forced into an uneasy partnership with a mob enforcer played by Mark Wahlberg. Distributed by Paramount and produced by Hammerstone, the film is projected to take somewhere between $7 million and $8.5 million across the long weekend, with accounts differing modestly on the exact figure; the wider cast is said to include Nicole Beharie, Josh Lucas, LisaGay Hamilton and LaChanze, with a script credited to Sascha Penn.
A24's Onslaught, from director Adam Wingard, fared considerably softer, opening to takings reported at either $770,000 or $782,000 on its first day and tracking towards a four-day total in the region of $2 million to $2.3 million. The film stars Adria Arjona as a former soldier trying to shield her daughter from a squad of genetically engineered super-soldiers, with a supporting cast said to include Dan Stevens, Eric Wareheim, Reginald VelJohnson and Michael Biehn. It has been noted as sitting at roughly 54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Coverage draws a pointed contrast with the same holiday weekend a year earlier, when Zach Cregger's horror hit Weapons dominated Labor Day takings and went on to earn Amy Madigan an Academy Award nomination for supporting actress, with a prequel now reportedly in development, underlining how much quieter this year's new releases have proven by comparison.
Where outlets differ
From the full account, which is AI-written from the sources:
One outlet frames the $900m milestone as a speed record (36 days, faster than The Force Awakens' 50-day pace), while the other emphasises rarity, noting Brand New Day is only the second film ever to cross $900m domestically and is closing in on The Force Awakens' $936m all-time record.
Only one source reports the film's global total ($2.33bn) and its position as the third-highest-grossing film worldwide, having overtaken Avatar: The Way of Water — the other source does not mention global figures at all.
The two reports give slightly different Friday and projected weekend figures for the new releases: Onslaught's opening day is put at $770,000 by one outlet and $782,000 by the other, with weekend estimates of $2m versus $2.3m; By Any Means is projected at around $7m by one outlet and $8.5m by the other.
Only one outlet covers the wider chart in detail, including the performance of second-weekend holdovers Coyote vs. Acme and The Dog Stars, and notes By Any Means finished fourth on opening day behind Spider-Man, The Odyssey and Coyote vs. Acme.
Only one outlet draws the comparison to last year's Labor Day performance of Weapons and mentions Amy Madigan's Oscar win and an in-development prequel; the other omits this context entirely but instead lists a fuller supporting cast and crew for both new releases (e.g. Onslaught screenwriter Simon Barrett, By Any Means screenwriter Sascha Penn).
Explained simply
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the latest Marvel superhero film from Sony, starring Tom Holland as the web-slinging hero. It arrived in cinemas over the summer and has been drawing large audiences ever since, making it one of the year's biggest cinematic releases.
Box office takings are a standard way the film industry measures how popular and profitable a film is, tracked weekend by weekend at cinemas across North America and worldwide. Films that stay at the top spot for many weeks in a row, or cross major earnings milestones, are seen as unusually successful and often draw comparisons with past record-holders such as Star Wars and Avatar films.
This matters because it reflects broader trends in cinema, including how few new films are managing to compete against an established blockbuster and how a relatively quiet late-summer release period is affecting other new titles reaching cinemas.
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