Spider-Man: Brand New Day could make over $800 million on Opening Weekend Globally.
1,687 days is a long time for fans to go without a live-action Spider-Man movie. In fact, it is the second-longest gap between live-action Spider-Man films, after the 1,887-day gap between Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man, which marked the end of Maguire’s franchise and the start of Garfield’s Amazing Spider-Man duology.
Judging by the pre-sale numbers and current domestic and global projections, it’s clear fans have been waiting on this one for a long while, and the hype for the next chapter of Peter Parker’s life is not only real but seemingly quite inestimable. With Destin Daniel Cretton at the helm, Parker steps fully into adulthood this time — broke, lonely, achingly relatable in the way the character always works best. He is now a full-time wallcrawler and no longer a wallflower.
The five-year gap since fans last saw him on screen, and Holland and Zendaya’s on-screen chemistry evolving into them tying the knot in real life in the years between, have only further fueled this hype.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is likely to beat Avengers: Endgame for the biggest single-day gross at the Domestic Box Office
The reviews have arrived to back this hype, rather than puncture it, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes and 70% on Metacritic, comfortably positive across the board. The audience scores have been just as impressive, with the film currently sitting at 4.1 on Letterboxd and 98% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Popcornmeter. Brand New Day isn’t just riding pre-release momentum into the weekend now; it’s riding momentum that the film itself has now confirmed it deserves.
According to the latest tracking making the rounds, the Avengers: Doomsday trailer and the positive reviews have given a massive boost to Brand New Day ticket sales. Domestically, pre-sales have already crossed $100 million for the opening weekend. Current projections have the film on pace for $75 million-plus in previews alone, with Friday gross currently tracking at around $85 million.
If the film were to make $160 million on its opening day, it would beat the record for the biggest single-day gross at the domestic box office, which is currently held by Avengers: Endgame ($157.4 million).
Brand New Day is doing this with one Spider-Man, a script built around a broke, lonely guy trying to hold his life together rather than a multiversal reunion tour or a giant superhero team-up, and a marketing campaign that has deliberately steered away from cameo bait in favour of something smaller and more personal.
Whatever uncertainty exists elsewhere in Disney, Marvel or moviegoing in general, one thing has stayed completely unshakable through all of it: the world loves Spider-Man, and the world specifically loves watching Tom Holland do it.
Box Office Theory previously had Brand New Day pegged as the first film since Deadpool & Wolverine to clear $200 million in a domestic opening weekend — a threshold that’s been breached exactly twice since the pandemic. Since then, the numbers have kept climbing, and the tracking now has the film poised to open close to $275 million domestically. If that were to happen, the film would have surpassed Spider-Man: No Way Home’s $260 million domestic opening weekend, a film that, lest anyone forget, sold itself on three generations of Spider-Man sharing a screen at once.
After this weekend, Tom Holland will have officially appeared in all four of the films that hold the title for the biggest opening weekend of all time.
The @Avengers Doomsday trailer/tickets didn't just sell a lot of tickets for itself, it also led to a massive spike in @SpiderMan Brand New Day sales yesterday. The pent up MCU demand is going to carry the opening weekend to heights only one other movie in history has ever seen. pic.twitter.com/AJRBrDz27W
— EmpireCity Box Office (@EmpireCityBO) July 21, 2026
Biggest Domestic Opening Weekend of All Time
- Avengers: Endgame (2019): $357,115,007
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021): $260,138,569
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018): $257,698,183
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015): $247,966,675
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017): $220,009,584
- Deadpool & Wolverine (2024): $211,435,291
- Jurassic World (2015): $208,806,270
- The Avengers (2012): $207,438,708
- Black Panther (2018): $202,003,951
- The Lion King (2019): $191,770,759
We have been talking about the waning dominance of the superhero genre, at least as it once was, for the last couple of years, and the discussion has once again found a catalyst with Supergirl’s rather incredulous box office performance. The film has failed to capture the zeitgeist in any meaningful way and is poised to suffer a box-office fate even worse than Morbius, despite costing $100 million more.
While we may no longer be in the days when even Captain Marvel can open to positive reviews and make a billion dollars, Spider-Man is immune to all of that and the genre’s trends in general. He really is the golden goose that is ever so reliable, and the global projections are an additional testament to exactly that.
Brand New Day to make over $800 million on Opening Weekend Globally after securing China release on IMAX
The overseas numbers are matching the domestic hysteria almost beat for beat. Brand New Day pulled in more than $100 million internationally on Wednesday alone, with strong showings stretching from East Asia through Europe and into Latin America, several markets already posting record openings for the franchise.
The overseas weekend is now tracking toward $550 million or more, with some projections pushing closer to $600 million. China led Wednesday’s haul at $35 million, followed by the UK at $7.75 million, Mexico north of $7 million, France around $6.75 million, Brazil at roughly $5 million, and Korea and Italy each sitting at $4.75 million.
Update: ¥235M / $35M opening day. Weekend projections ¥900M+ / $133M+ #SpiderManBrandNewDay https://t.co/DGQHgVnfxz
— ਜਤਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ (@Itsjat32) July 29, 2026
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Brand New Day is also set to be the first comic book film to clear $100 million in Mainland China since Spider-Man: Far From Home pulled in $199 million back in 2019. It also picked up something close to a gift: a two-week exclusive IMAX window beginning July 29, ahead of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey release in Mainland on August 14.
If the film surpasses $521 million in its opening weekend, it would gross more than any of Marvel’s 2025 releases made in their entire runs in a single weekend globally.
Billion Dollar is the floor for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
When adjusted for inflation, seven of the eight live-action Spider-Man films released this century — Raimi’s trilogy, The Amazing Spider-Man, all three Homecoming-era films — have crossed a billion dollars worldwide. The only film that has not, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, still translates to $968 million when adjusted for current inflation.
It is almost unfathomable that this is the floor for the webcrawler. Both Spider-Man and Batman are undeniably the biggest and most beloved superheroes, and are outliers in terms of the typical trends that follow the genre.
Even among both of them, J. Jonah Jameson’s worst nemesis arguably stands alone at the summit. He is powerful enough to go against space gods, human enough that he is still just as broke as most of us and is always a victim of bad timings and misunderstandings when it comes to his relationships, these traits define him as much as the powers do — a needle almost nobody else in the genre threads as cleanly, not Batman with his infinite resources, not Superman with his god-tier remove.