Brand New Day won its fourth straight weekend with $39 million and has passed $854.9 million in North America. Endgame’s second-place domestic record is now days away from falling.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has spent a month at number one, and it is about to take something bigger.
The film won its fourth consecutive weekend with $39 million from 4,006 North American theaters, per studio estimates.
That pushes its domestic total past $854.9 million, close enough to Avengers: Endgame that Sony will likely be announcing a new record within days.
What record Spider-Man is about to break
Endgame currently holds the second-highest domestic gross in history. Star Wars: The Force Awakens holds the top spot and is not realistically in reach this run.
Taking second would put Brand New Day ahead of a film that has anchored the record books since 2019, and it would do it in roughly a month of release.
It already took Endgame‘s opening weekend record in July, beating $357.1 million with a $360 million debut.
What Spider-Man beat this weekend
The fourth-weekend win came against a genuinely crowded slate of new releases.
Newcomers included a comedy, a Jason Statham action film, a family picture, and Insidious: Out of the Further, the latest entry in that horror franchise.
None of them dislodged it. Holding number one against four openers in a fourth weekend is unusual, and it says more about the film’s legs than the opening record did.
Why Brand New Day has held on this long
The audience response has been the driver rather than the marketing.
The film carries 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and an A grade on CinemaScore exit polls, which is the combination that produces repeat viewing rather than a front-loaded run.
There is also five years of unresolved story behind it. Spider-Man: No Way Home ended with Peter Parker erasing his own identity from the world, and audiences have been waiting since 2021 to find out what happened next.
Tom Holland and Zendaya star, alongside a cast Sony kept largely under wraps before release.
How Spider-Man compares to No Way Home
The prior film is the benchmark everyone is measuring against.
No Way Home built its enormous run on a crossover event, bringing Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield onto the screen alongside Holland. It also did that without a China release.
Brand New Day is outperforming it without the multi-Spider-Man hook, which suggests the character’s baseline audience has grown rather than the novelty carrying it.
What this means for Disney and Marvel
Worth understanding, since the ownership question confuses people every year.
Sony distributes the Spider-Man films. Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige produce them. Disney owns Marvel, and the character operates inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe while the release itself belongs to Sony.
Which is why Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro spent part of the company’s earnings call congratulating a competitor, calling the result evidence that audiences will still turn out for a theatrical event.
He has reason to hope so. Avengers: Doomsday arrives December 18, and it is Disney’s biggest theatrical bet of the year.
Where Spider-Man goes from here
The film is still playing in more than 4,000 locations, which is unusual retention for a fourth weekend.
Worldwide it crossed $2 billion earlier this month, becoming Sony’s highest-grossing release ever and the eighth film in history to reach that mark.
Whether it can reach $1 billion domestically, a figure no film has ever hit in North America alone, is the remaining question. It would need roughly another $145 million, which is achievable on current legs but not guaranteed as September competition arrives.
Marvel revealed its full X-Men cast at D23 this month, with Sadie Sink playing Jean Grey after being introduced in Brand New Day. That introduction is now the highest-profile character debut in years.
Article compiled with the help of the Pirates & Princesses newsroom.
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Hat Tips:
Associated Press, via Washington Times and Washington Post (August 23, 2026), the fourth-weekend figures, the theater count, the $854.9 million domestic total, and the Endgame comparison
Variety (August 2026), the Rotten Tomatoes and CinemaScore figures and the No Way Home context
The Walt Disney Company (August 5, 2026), D’Amaro’s earnings-call remarks