Studio estimates put Spider-Man: Brand New Day a whisker behind Endgame domestically and second worldwide. Here is the clean opening-weekend scoreboard.
If you were waiting for a clean scoreboard after the opening weekend estimates landed, here it is. Spider-Man: Brand New Day did not merely "overperform." It parked next to the all-time record books and made the rest of the 2026 superhero panic look premature.
Opening weekend scoreboard
Studio estimates put the Tom Holland / Zendaya Sony-Marvel release at:
Slice
Number
Context
Domestic (U.S. + Canada)
~$355M
Second-biggest domestic open ever
Domestic record holder
*Avengers: Endgame* $357.1M (2019)
Spidey misses by about $2M on current estimates
International
~$572M
Includes about $121M from China
Worldwide open
~$927M
Second-biggest global open ever
Global record holder
*Endgame* ~$1.2B open
Still the ceiling
Prior Sony / Spidey bar
*No Way Home* $260.1M domestic open
*Brand New Day* smashes Sony's own mark
Day-part color that matters for the record chase: Thursday previews and Friday (including previews) set new highs in the $168M opening-day range, ahead of Endgame's old Friday mark. Saturday landed around $101.5M. Final Monday audited numbers can still nudge the three-day domestic total a few million either way.
Tom Holland returns as Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day
What the weekend says about "superhero fatigue"
A stretch of soft cape movies in 2025 and early 2026 fed a tidy narrative that the genre was cooked. A $355M domestic open from a Peter Parker story that is not a three-Spider-Men novelty reel answers with math. The gap between pre-release tracking chatter in the high-$100Ms and the actual open is the story for exhibitors: Spidey demand was still badly under-modeled.
The same weekend also stacked into the biggest collective North American frame on record at roughly $430M, with Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (also featuring Holland and Zendaya) adding about $51M in its third weekend for second place. That is not "one movie got lucky." That is the market showing up.
On-set detail from Spider-Man: Brand New Day: Peter Parker's apartment and suit workbench
Sony's read, and the $1B question
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group chairman and CEO Tom Rothman framed the runaway in a studio statement around friendship, not IP maximalism:
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is fundamentally a movie about friendship, about the balm of connection in all our lives, and that is resonant to audiences of all ages and all around the world.
Crossing $1 billion worldwide in the next several days is the near-term checkpoint most desks are watching. Matching No Way Home's nearly $2B theatrical finish is a different race: that film had multiverse novelty, a holiday corridor, and a COVID-era event feel. Brand New Day has reviews, audience heat, and a cleaner "come back to Peter" pitch. How far it runs depends on hold, not just the open.
Second to *Endgame* domestically and globally on those estimates
Confirmed
Final audited Monday numbers
Can still shift slightly
Biggest North American weekend overall (~$430M)
Confirmed in weekend reporting
Guaranteed pass of *No Way Home*'s final cume
Not confirmed
What to do next
If you have not seen it yet, the argument for a ticket is no longer "support the genre." It is that this is the rare open where the crowd already voted with a near-record weekend. Follow Respawn Later's movies feed as the $1B worldwide print stamps.
