Spider-Man: Brand New Day swings past $2 billion, becoming the second-fastest film to hit the mark
Sony and Marvel's Spider-Man: Brand New Day has crossed $2 billion in global ticket sales after three weekends in cinemas, making it one of only eight films in history to reach that threshold. Tom Holland's fourth solo outing as Peter Parker grossed $785 million in North America and $1.23 billion overseas for a worldwide total of $2.022 billion, according to Variety.
Only 2019's Avengers: Endgame got there faster, hitting $2 billion in eleven days. Brand New Day took the long way around — three weekends — but the trajectory was extraordinary at every step. The film opened to a record $355 million in North America and $932 million worldwide on its first weekend, then cleared $1 billion globally after just six days in theatres.
By the end of its second week, Brand New Day had become the fastest film ever to surpass $700 million at the domestic box office — domestic meaning the United States and Canada — per Variety. It also overtook its own predecessor as Sony's biggest release in international markets, with $1.108 billion overseas edging past the $1.106 billion earned by 2021's No Way Home, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That earlier figure has since been updated: the newer Variety tally puts the overseas gross at $1.23 billion and climbing.
The $2 billion club is small and almost exclusively occupied by Disney-distributed titles — Endgame, Avatar, Titanic, and a handful of sequels among them. Brand New Day is the eighth-biggest worldwide release of all time, and the first Sony Pictures film to enter the two-billion tier.
What makes the milestone particularly notable is the gap it closes for the franchise. No Way Home finished its run at $1.9 billion worldwide and narrowly missed the $2 billion mark because it never secured a theatrical release in China — the world's second-largest film market. Brand New Day secured that release, and the difference shows up in the overseas numbers.
For Sony, the result crowns a franchise that has been the studio's most reliable box-office engine across four Holland-led films. For Marvel, it adds another record-holder to a slate that already includes several of the top ten global releases of all time. And for the theatrical business, a $932 million opening weekend — the kind of number that would have sounded implausible a decade ago — is now the bar a Spider-Man film has set on its first Friday through Sunday.
Whether Brand New Day can climb further up the all-time list depends on how it holds in the coming weeks. At $2.022 billion after three weekends, it sits roughly $400 million behind Avengers: Endgame's $2.799 billion final gross — with late-summer screens still to itself in several major markets.
