Tom Holland's 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Just Rewrote the Record Books Again

Tom Holland has spent the better part of a decade turning Spider-Man into one of the most reliable box office forces in modern movie history, and this summer’s release only added to that reputation. ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ arrived with the difficult task of following ‘No Way Home,’ a film boosted by nostalgia and multiverse mania, and somehow found a way to top it anyway.

The numbers behind that achievement have been climbing at a pace nobody quite expected. What started as a record-breaking opening weekend has snowballed into one milestone after another, each one pushing the film closer to box office territory usually reserved for a handful of movies in history.

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘ has outgrossed ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ at the domestic box office, with the post also citing the film as the fastest to gross over $800 million, the highest-grossing Spider-Man film, the highest-grossing film of the 2020s, and the third highest-grossing film of all time. The film has already surpassed ‘No Way Home’ at the worldwide box office, officially becoming both the highest-grossing comic book movie of the decade and the biggest ‘Spider-Man’ film ever made, a milestone that had been building for weeks.

The domestic chase has been especially tight in recent days. As of its third Wednesday in theaters, Brand New Day had climbed to $810.4 million domestically after 20 days of release, inching closer to ‘No Way Home’s’ North American total of $814.86 million, a gap that had shrunk to just a few million dollars.

That climb has come with a string of speed records along the way. Sony Pictures confirmed the film crossed $800 million domestically in just 19 days, making it the fastest movie in history to reach that mark, beating the previous record held by 2015’s ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ which needed 23 days to get there.

The film’s global numbers have been just as dominant. Brand New Day crossed $2 billion worldwide, becoming the eighth film in history to hit that mark and topping ‘No Way Home’s’ $1.9 billion global total to become Sony’s highest-grossing release ever. It also became just the fourth movie ever to cross $800 million domestically, joining ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ and ‘No Way Home’ in that exclusive club.

Director Destin Daniel Cretton’s film opened with a bang and never really slowed down. The movie delivered the biggest domestic opening weekend in box office history at $360 million, then followed it up with the second-best third weekend ever recorded, trailing only ‘The Force Awakens.’ Starring Holland alongside Zendaya, Sadie Sink, and Jon Bernthal, the film has stayed at number one every weekend since its July 31 release.

Whether Brand New Day officially claims the number three all-time domestic spot, or climbs even further past ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and ‘The Force Awakens,’ remains to be seen in the coming weeks, but the trajectory has left industry watchers increasingly confident it’s not done breaking records. With Labor Day weekend still ahead and demand showing few signs of slowing, Sony’s web-slinger appears poised to keep climbing the all-time charts well into the fall.