“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has broken the record for the biggest opening weekend in North American box office history, taking $360 million from cinemas in the United States and Canada, Sony Pictures said on Monday.
The figure passes the $357 million that “Avengers: Endgame” collected on its debut in 2019 — a record that had stood for seven years.
Sony had projected on Sunday that the film would finish its first weekend on about $355 million from 4,487 theatres, narrowly short of the Endgame mark. A stronger-than-expected Sunday, worth $88.7 million against a forecast $84 million, carried it past.
The fourth Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland opened with record Thursday previews, took $169.3 million on Friday including presales, and $101.5 million on Saturday, according to the Daily Mirror’s account.
”Records are made to be broken”
“Records are made to be broken, but we will take great pride in this one, for as long as we hold it,” said Tom Rothman, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group.
The weekend is the biggest opening in Sony Pictures history and the largest debut for the Spider-Man franchise.
Before “Endgame”, no film had opened above $300 million domestically. The previous record holders were “Avengers: Infinity War” with $257 million in 2018 and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” with $247 million in 2015. Holland’s third outing, “No Way Home”, debuted to $260 million in December 2021 during the pandemic and went on to earn $1.9 billion worldwide.
Globally, “Brand New Day” has taken $932 million, still short of the $1.2 billion global opening record that “Endgame” retains.
A record weekend for cinemas
The film achieved the opening despite being shut out of Imax screens, which had been booked for Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”, released by Universal. Rival premium formats benefited instead, with Dolby Cinema, ScreenX and 4DX all reporting record ticket sales over the weekend.
The two films share three cast members — Holland, Zendaya and Jon Bernthal — and together produced the strongest overall weekend on record for cinemas in the United States and Canada.
The domestic box office is now running more than 15% ahead of last year, with over $6.2 billion in ticket sales so far in 2026, according to Rentrak.
“Brand New Day” is on course to become the fourth billion-dollar film of the year, joining Pixar’s “Toy Story 5”, Lionsgate’s “Michael” and Universal and Illumination’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie”.
