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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ makes it 6 weeks in a row at No. 1 as Hollywood wraps a banner summer
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“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” remained the No. 1 movie in theaters over the weekend, becoming just the second film this decade to top the box office for six straight weeks. The last release to enjoy such a long stretch leading the box office was 2022’s “Avatar: The Way of Water.
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is Fastest Film to Cross $900 Million at Domestic Box Office
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ makes it 6 weeks in a row at No. 1 as Hollywood wraps a banner summer
Sony’s superhero blockbuster “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” held the top position at the U.K. and Ireland box office for a fifth consecutive weekend, generating £2.7 million ($3.7 million). The film has collected $125.5 million after 27 days on release.
It’s finally happening, and nobody, I mean nobody saw this coming: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day is hitting $900 million at the domestic box office today, not only the second movie to ever cross that threshold after Disney/Lucasfilm’s 2015 title Star Wars: Force Awakens, but the fastest as…
With a four-day weekend estimated to be around $21M, Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be less than $16M away by EOD of Monday of overtaking Star Wars: Force Awakens ($936.6M) as the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office.
The Spider-Man feature is soon aiming to become the top grossing movie domestically of all time, as Tom Holland's other summer movie, 'The Odyssey,' comes in at No. 2.
Two action flicks, Paramount’s “By Any Means” and A24’s “Onslaught,” arrived in theaters on Friday. But neither could dethrone “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which remains No. 1 in its sixth weekend in theaters. “Spider-Man” added $3.
Tom Holland attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Columbia Pictures’ “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” at Dolby Theatre on July 27, 2026 in Hollywood, California.
For the first time since Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened on July 31, Universal and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey can throw a galley parade over the fact that it’s grabbed the No. 1 spot at the global weekend box office with $45.96M WW over the Sony/Marvel Studios’ title’s sixth frame of $44.
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” remained the No. 1 movie in theaters over the weekend, becoming just the second film this decade to top the box office for six straight weeks. The last release to enjoy such a long stretch leading the box office was 2022’s “Avatar: The Way of Water.
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” was No. 1 at the domestic box office for the sixth consecutive weekend, a rare feat that underscores the movie’s remarkable staying power as well as the lack of competition on cinema marquees.
One of the weekend's best performers was “Coyote vs. Acme,” the hybrid live-action-animated Looney Tunes movie. It dipped a modest 29% to gross $11.3 million in its second weekend.
Sony’s Tom Rothman took a bit of a victory lap with the studio’s boffo success of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which has become the highest-grossing film of 2026 to date. Rothman, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group, spoke Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul…
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