Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day made a spectacular entrance at the weekend box office, opening to an estimated $355 million from 4,487 theaters. The latest web-slinging adventure easily claimed the No. 1 spot, delivering one of the year's biggest openings and proving audiences are still eager for Marvel's friendly neighborhood hero.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day built momentum well before its official opening weekend with a staggering $72 million in Thursday preview screenings, setting a new all-time preview record. The film surpassed the previous benchmark of $60 million set by Avengers: Endgame, signaling that Marvel and Sony had another cultural phenomenon on their hands. It followed that historic preview performance with a record-breaking $168 million opening day, helping propel the film to the second-largest domestic opening weekend in history at an estimated $355 million—just shy of Endgame's $357 million record.
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Meanwhile, The Odyssey continued its remarkable run in second place. Despite a 43.3% drop in its third weekend, Christopher Nolan's epic earned another $51 million, pushing its domestic total to an impressive $395.5 million. With strong word-of-mouth and continued premium-format demand, the film remains on pace to become one of the year's biggest theatrical successes.
Brand New Day also marks another milestone for Hollywood power couple Tom Holland and Zendaya. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey dominating the box office at the same time, the real-life couple have become the first romantic pair to headline separate No. 1 and No. 2 films simultaneously, adding yet another record to an already historic summer at the movies.
Disney's Toy Story 5 held strong in third with $6.3 million, lifting its domestic haul to $461.7 million, while Universal's Minions & Monsters added $5.8 million for a five-week total of $168.4 million.
Rounding out the top five, Disney's Moana brought in $5.3 million, crossing $114.8 million domestically after four weeks in theaters.
With Spider-Man: Brand New Day delivering a blockbuster debut and The Odyssey showing exceptional staying power, theaters are enjoying one of the strongest late-summer box office periods in recent memory.
Source: Box Office Mojo
