Sony Holds Top Two as Insidious Six Eyes $23–27 Million Debut Beneath Spider-Man's Fourth Weekend
Sony Pictures is poised to occupy the top two slots at the North American box office this weekend, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day expected to hold No. 1 in its fourth frame and Insidious: Out of the Further targeting a second-place opening of $23–27 million, per Variety. Spider-Man's estimated $35–40 million fourth weekend would extend a run that has already grossed $804 million domestically — the United States and Canada — and $2.078 billion worldwide, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film in history and the fastest ever to cross $800 million domestically, hitting that mark in 19 days.
Insidious: Out of the Further arrives as the sixth entry in a horror franchise that began in 2010 and has grossed roughly $750 million globally across five previous films, according to Deadline. The new film cost approximately $18 million to produce. That figure matters: a $23 million opening would already exceed the production budget, and horror films tend to hold well in subsequent weeks. The franchise's biggest opening remains Insidious: Chapter 2, which launched to $40 million in 2013, while the most recent predecessor, Insidious: The Red Door, is the series' highest-grossing entry at $189 million worldwide, per Variety.
Written and directed by Jacob Chase, Out of the Further follows a new family rather than the Lamberts, played by Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne in earlier instalments. Amelia Eve stars as Gemma, a dental hygienist raising her daughter Kaya — played by Island Austin — in the house she grew up in, where she discovers she can enter the Further, the purgatorial realm of tortured spirits that gives the series its name. Sam Spruell plays Cyrus, a dead villain seeking to return to life. Lin Shaye reprises her role as Elise Rainer, the medium killed off in the first film who returns as a ghostly guide, per Deadline.
The wider weekend tells a story of a summer running hot. The 2026 summer box office reached $4.24 billion domestically from May 1 through August 16, surpassing $4 billion for only the second time since COVID, running 23% ahead of the same period in 2025 and nearly 6% ahead of 2019, per Variety. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the second-biggest film of the year with $504 million in North America and $1.29 billion worldwide, was expected to add roughly $15 million in its sixth weekend.
Two other openers round out the frame. Lionsgate's action-thriller Mutiny, starring Jason Statham as a former marine framed for his billionaire boss's murder, was targeting a soft $8–10 million from roughly 2,700 theatres. The film cost $40 million to produce, though Lionsgate acquired North American rights without financing it. Black Bear's comedy Spa Weekend, led by Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann, Anna Faris and Michelle Buteau and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, was aiming for $3–5 million from about 2,000 screens on a budget of roughly $20 million, per Variety.
All opening-weekend figures cited here are studio estimates until Monday's actuals are reported.
