‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Gets Briefly Dethroned at the Box Office After 3 Weeks at No. 1

Late August has quietly turned into one of the busiest stretches at the domestic box office in years, with multiple new releases fighting for attention against a superhero juggernaut that’s shown no signs of slowing down. Even after four consecutive weekends at No. 1, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has continued dominating theaters well past the point most blockbusters lose their grip on the top spot.

That dominance briefly hit a wrinkle this weekend, though, when a new horror sequel actually managed to sneak past Tom Holland’s web-slinger for a single day. “Insidious: Out of the Further” leapfrogged “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” to take the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office on Friday, grossing $10.6 million from 3,303 North American theaters compared to Spider-Man’s $9.8 million.

That Friday upset, while a genuine surprise given how thoroughly Marvel’s blockbuster has dominated the summer, doesn’t change the overall picture heading into Sunday. Sony’s own Marvel release remains poised to reclaim the top spot for the weekend as a whole, with the studio projecting $36.5 million through Sunday for its fourth consecutive frame at No. 1, a roughly 47% decline from the previous weekend’s haul.

That expected weekend total would push “Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s” domestic cume to $852.4 million, putting it on pace to surpass 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and become the No. 3 highest-grossing film ever at the domestic box office. It would also inch the film closer to overtaking “Avengers: Endgame’s” $858.3 million domestic total, though that record is complicated slightly by Endgame’s own upcoming theatrical reissue in September.

“Insidious: Out of the Further,” meanwhile, is projected to finish its opening weekend around $23.7 million, the sixth installment in the long-running horror franchise that began with 2011’s original “Insidious.” That number comes in below its immediate predecessor, 2023’s “Insidious: The Red Door,” which opened to $33 million, though the film’s modest $18 million production budget means it should still turn a healthy profit regardless of the softer start.

Directed by Jacob Chase, “Out of the Further” follows a young mother who discovers she can travel into the Further, the franchise’s signature purgatorial dimension, only to learn that whatever’s waiting there can make the return trip with her. The film currently holds a 60% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes alongside a 70% audience score, with The Hollywood Reporter’s Frank Scheck writing in his review that the movie “proves routine in its elaborate plot machinations.”

Rounding out the weekend’s new arrivals is “Mutiny,” Jason Statham’s latest action vehicle, which landed in fourth place after earning $2.8 million on Friday from 2,703 screens. The film is targeting a modest $7.4 million opening weekend, trailing similar recent Statham vehicles like 2024’s “The Beekeeper” ($16.5 million opening) and 2025’s “A Working Man” ($15 million opening), though it’s outpacing “Shelter,” an earlier 2026 Statham release that opened to $5.2 million.

Beyond the top three, “The Odyssey” continued its own steady run in sixth week of release, adding another $18.5 million domestically to push its cumulative total past $538 million. Combined with the rest of the weekend’s holdovers, the overall box office is expected to ring up roughly $126.5 million, marking another $100 million-plus weekend and continuing what’s shaping up to be a genuinely strong late-summer stretch for theaters.

With “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” still projected to comfortably win the weekend despite briefly losing Friday’s crown, the film’s four-week reign at the top of the box office remains firmly intact heading into its fifth frame. Whether any upcoming release can finally knock it from its perch remains an open question, but for now, Peter Parker continues to hold court over one of the busiest theatrical calendars in recent memory.

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