‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Aims to Make Box Office History as It Targets High-Flying Opening
Spider-Man: Brand New Day looks to close out the month with a big swing, as Sony Pictures‘ latest superhero feature with Tom Holland and Zendaya eyes an...
Key points
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day looks to close out the month with a big swing, as Sony Pictures‘ latest superhero feature with Tom Holland and Zendaya eyes an astronomical opening weekend at the box office.
- Related Stories This would top last month’s launch for Disney‘s Toy Story 5, which opened to $159.6 million domestically, to make Spider-Man: Brand New Day the biggest debut of 2026.
- Sony projects Spider-Man: Brand New Day to add $270 million from international markets for a global start of $465 million, including a strong showing in China.
- This would give it the studio’s second-best launch behind Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s heroic opening of $600.5 million in 2021, and it would best Spider-Man 3′s $381.6 million start from 2007.
What happened
Spider-Man: Brand New Day looks to close out the month with a big swing, as Sony Pictures‘ latest superhero feature with Tom Holland and Zendaya eyes an astronomical opening weekend at the box office. Related Stories This would top last month’s launch for Disney‘s Toy Story 5, which opened to $159.6 million domestically, to make Spider-Man: Brand New Day the biggest debut of 2026. Sony projects Spider-Man: Brand New Day to add $270 million from international markets for a global start of $465 million, including a strong showing in China. This would give it the studio’s second-best launch behind Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s heroic opening of $600.5 million in 2021, and it would best Spider-Man 3′s $381.6 million start from 2007. Hailing from Sony and Marvel Studios, Brand New Day accounts for 49 percent of this weekend’s showtimes as of Wednesday, according to the Boxoffice Company, as opposed to the 22 percent that The Odyssey held when it opened two weekends ago to $124.5 million domestically for the third-biggest 2026 launch to date. In his review for The Hollywood Reporter, chief film critic David Rooney writes that Brand New Day “foregrounds the humanity that has always been...
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