It has officially ceded the crown to Tom Holland’s latest Spidey adventure, which has surpassed that benchmark with $936.773 million in 47 days. Now the question is whether “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has the endurance to become the first movie in history to generate $1 billion at the domestic box office — although that might be unlikely at this point without a re-release. After seven weekends in theaters, Sony and Marvel’s epic “Brand New Day” has earned a jaw-dropping $2.4 billion at the global box office.
It’s the third-highest grossing movie of all time, trailing just 2009’s “Avatar” ($2.9 billion), “Avengers: Endgame” ($2.7 billion) and ahead of 2022’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” ($2.3 billion) and 1994’s “Titanic” ($2.2 billion). The movie launched to a record-breaking $360 million in North America and a staggering $932 million globally in its opening weekend; it then cleared $1 billion after just six days of release. It reached $2 billion after three weekends, becoming the second-fastest film to reach the threshold following 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” which got there after 11 days.
Directed by “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton, “Brand New Day” picks up after the events of 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” — which ended with the entire world forgetting about Peter Parker. Initial demand was stratospheric because audiences were desperate to find out the ramifications of Spider-Man’s fateful choice. (And they wanted to be among the first to find out who Sadie Sink was playing in the movie. Spoiler alert: It’s Jean Grey.) Yet the movie enjoyed unprecedented staying power because of the euphoric word of mouth.
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