Brand New Day Beats Force Awakens at Domestic Box Office
The Hollywood Reporter • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day has become the highest-grossing film in North America with $936.773 million, surpassing Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens after 47 days of release.
- The film set records as the fastest to reach major domestic milestones from $400 million to $900 million and ranks third globally behind Avatar and Avengers: Endgame.
- Produced by Marvel Studios and Amy Pascal, the movie stars Tom Holland and features a storyline focusing on Spider-Man’s solitary struggles against an unseen enemy.
- Brand New Day achieved the biggest domestic opening weekend ever with $360 million and the highest-grossing first week in domestic box office history, contributing to the highest-grossing global summer ever at $4.765 billion.
- Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman highlighted the strategic choice to deepen the story rather than escalate scale, following the success of the previous Spider-Man film, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
