According to current estimates, Spider-Man: Brand New Day surged past $2.3 billion this weekend, beating Avatar: The Way of Water to become the third-highest-grossing movie worldwide.
As always at this point in the weekend, the numbers are fluctuating, but many analysts appear confident that the wall-crawler's latest solo outing will swing past James Cameron's Avatar sequel today. Worst-case scenario, it'll happen tomorrow morning.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has webbed up over $1.4 billion overseas and more than $891.5 million domestically. Unfortunately for Sony Pictures, Chinese audiences no longer flock to Hollywood blockbusters—it's made $227.4 million there, compared to Avengers: Endgame's $632 million—which means the movie won't ultimately beat the 2019 MCU movie ($2.799 billion) or Avatar's ($2.923 billion) global grosses.
Had it come out 7 or 8 years ago with this level of momentum, Spider-Man: Brand New Day might have become the first movie to crack $3 billion.
Still, the studio has plenty to smile about. In the U.S., the Spider-Man: No Way Home follow-up will hit $900 million by Friday and is now projected to beat Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing title ever stateside.
Here's how the top 5 looked this weekend:
1. Spider-Man: Brand New Day - $22 million
2. Coyote vs. ACME - $15 million
3. The Odyssey - $14 million
4. Insidious: Out of the Further - $10 million
5. The Dog Stars - $8 million
"It’s a testament to [director] Destin Daniel Cretton, Tom Holland, and [producer] Amy Pascal. And [Sony Pictures chairman] Tom Rothman, for letting us do this four times now — working to bring Spidey to the screen," Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige previously said of Spider-Man: Brand New Day's box office success. "It’s a testament to what Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created all those years ago."
"People can write about changing tastes, but as characters that grow and evolve through the decades, there are none better than the Marvel characters — and none better than Peter Parker," he continued. "When you find an actor like Tom Holland to bring that character to life, it is the magic formula."
In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, it's a Brand New Day for Peter Parker. Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn’t remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter he may not have the power to control.
But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see. The world may have forgotten Peter Parker, but he hasn’t forgotten them.
In our review, we concluded by saying, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day is everything fans could want. Emotional, hilarious, and heartfelt, it’s an action-packed love letter to the comics and one of Spidey’s best big-screen adventures. Spider-Man has never been more amazing."
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now playing in theaters.