'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Overtakes One of the Most Divisive MCU Movies Ever in Just 1 Week

Published Aug 8, 2026, 10:45 AM 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.

Incredibly, ***Spider-Man: Brand New Day ***is still pacing ahead of Avengers: Endgame one week into its theatrical run. Armed with IMAX screens this week, the movie is expected to deliver the third-biggest second-weekend haul in domestic box office history as it passes the $650 million mark by Sunday. Spider-Man: Brand New Day started out strong, delivering the biggest opening weekend haul of all time and crossing the coveted $1 billion mark worldwide in less than a week of release. It became the fourth film of 2026 to do so, and has now been joined in the elite club by Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, with which it shares three cast members — Zendaya, Tom Holland, and Jon Bernthal. As of its second weekend, Spider-Man: Brand New Day has cemented itself among the 30 highest-grossing movies of all time by overtaking a particularly divisive fellow MCU blockbuster.

The movie in question was released in 2013, receiving a massive box-office bump by virtue of being the immediate follow-up to The Avengers. That 2012 movie, directed by Joss Whedon, grossed more than $1.5 billion at the global box office and cemented the MCU as the generation’s most influential franchise. The MCU has now grossed around $35 billion globally after 38 feature films. The 2013 movie served as the final installment of the trilogy that put the MCU on the map; it was directed by Shane Black and is now regarded as a particularly divisive entry in the record-breaking franchise. Fans were especially surprised by its portrayal of an iconic Marvel villain, and this decision was retroactively recontextualized in the movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

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