‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Officially Defeats Zack Snyder’s Biggest Superhero Movie

Published Aug 3, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

The latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, delivered the second-biggest global box office debut in history. The movie was initially expected to gross under $600 million in its worldwide opening, but these projections picked up in the days leading up to its release. The final figure came to around $930 million, second in the all-time rankings behind fellow MCU blockbuster Avengers: Endgame, which opened with $1.2 billion worldwide in 2019. With this massive haul, Spider-Man: Brand New Day has already beaten the lifetime gross of Tom Holland’s debut adventure as the friendly neighborhood superhero, Spider-Man: Homecoming. Needless to say, several blockbuster superhero movies, including rival DC titles, were steamrolled by Spider-Man: Brand New Day this past weekend.

Also featuring Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, and Sadie Sink, Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossed $355 million domestically in its first weekend, falling marginally short of Avengers: Endgame’s opening-weekend record of $357 million. That movie, directed by the Russo Brothers, also featured Holland’s Spider-Man in a prominent supporting role. It ended up grossing more than $2.7 billion worldwide, and for a while, was the highest-grossing hit in global box office history. It paved the way for Spider-Man: No Way Home, which grossed $1.9 billion worldwide in 2021 without a China release, and brought Holland and director Jon Watts’ trilogy of Spidey movies to a resounding end. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, is being presented as the start of a new trilogy.

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