Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits $2 billion in just three weekends
Spider-Man is chasing Star Wars’ all-time domestic record
Spider-Man: Brand New Day became the eighth film ever to gross $2 billion worldwide, and it did it in three weekends. The domestic box office is tracking to break a record Star Wars has held for a decade.
The Sony and Marvel Studios film crossed $2 billion worldwide after three weekends in theaters, making it the eighth movie in history to reach that number.
It managed it on the back of a $360 million domestic and $927 million global opening at the end of July, then held with a $70 million third weekend domestically.
Two billion is the headline. The domestic number is the more interesting one.
It’s chasing a record Star Wars has held since 2016
Brand New Day sits at roughly $785 million domestically after three weekends, running 5.6 percent ahead of the pace Star Wars: The Force Awakens set in 2015 and 2016.
That film’s $936 million domestic total has stood as the all-time North American record for a decade. Nothing has come close since.
Brand New Day is on track to finish around $960 million, which would take the record.
It’s important to note that The Force Awakens ran through the holidays, when a lot of people were off work. Brand New Day is a summer release, and its midweek totals are running behind, likely due to that reason.
The record it probably won’t get
No film has ever grossed $1 billion from domestic ticket sales alone.
For a stretch it looked like this one might. That’s now unlikely, with the film falling off the pace needed to get there.
Third to $2.5 billion is still in play
Worldwide, the film is on course to pass Avatar: The Way of Water and Ne Zha 2.
Doing so would make it the third movie ever to reach $2.5 billion without adjusting for inflation, joining Avatar and Avengers: Endgame.
Three weekends in, Spider-Man has two billion dollars, and a shot at a record Star Wars has held for almost 10 years. Not bad for a guy Sony keeps rebooting.
Article compiled with the help of the Pirates & Princesses newsroom.
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Hat Tips:
TheWrap (August 16, 2026), Jeremy Fuster’s box office report on the $2 billion milestone, the domestic pace against The Force Awakens, the $960 million projection, the $2.5 billion outlook, and the full weekend chart
Box Office Mojo (retrieved August 16, 2026), The Force Awakens’ $936 million domestic record and the all-time worldwide rankings