Spider-Man: Brand New Day makes debut to $927m box office to land second biggest opening weekend in history
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Prefer the Guardian on Google Spider-Man: Brand New Day brought in a smash hit $927m in worldwide ticket sales to deliver the second most lucrative opening weekend of all time both domestically and globally.
Adding to this, The movie, which marks star Tom Holland’s fourth outing as the web-slinging superhero, depicts Peter Parker fighting crime in a world that has forgotten he is Spider-Man. Zendaya, who is married to Holland, co-stars as MJ, the love of Parker’s life. The movie explores Parker’s struggles with loneliness and his pursuit of human connection.
Meanwhile, Read more Spider-Man: Brand New Day made $355m in the United States and Canada in its opening weekend, making it second-biggest debut in domestic ticket-window history after 2019’s Avengers: Endgame with $357m, not adjusted for inflation.
Notably, Internationally, Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossed $572m, with China leading international markets with $121m in ticket sales, bringing the movie’s global opening total to $927m. In Australia it had the biggest opening weekend of 2026, making $30.4m.
As per the latest buzz, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige called it “a truly phenomenal opening”.
In further updates, Marvel Studios now boasts the four largest openings of all time at the global ticket-window (not adjusted for inflation): Avengers: Endgame ($1.22bn), Spider-Man: Brand New Day ($927m), Avengers: Infinity War ($640m) and Spider-Man: No Way Home ($600m).
On top of that, Tom Rothman, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group, described Spider-Man: Brand New Day as “fundamentally a movie about friendship, about the balm of connection in all our lives, and that is resonant to audiences of all ages and all around the world.”
Spider-Man is one of the most popular of Marvel’s comic book characters, with a cinematic appeal that endures even as audiences have shown signs of fatigue with the superhero genre. The latest instalment has been well-received, scoring a 90% rating from critics and 98% approval from movie-goers on Rotten Tomatoes.
Source: The Guardian