Spider-Man: Brand New Day keeps delivering more records in the breathtaking box office launch for the film that stars Tom Holland and Zendaya.
The Sony Pictures feature has set the record for the biggest Tuesday in domestic box office history with $42 million for the day. This surpasses the previous Tuesday record that Sony held with Spider-Man: Far From Home, which earned $39.2 million on July 2, 2019.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has set no shortage of brand new records as director Destin Daniel Cretton‘s film continues its high-flying start. The day prior, it also set the record mark for highest-grossing Monday domestically and has become the fastest feature to hit $400 million domestically, doing so in just four days to bring its North American total to $449 million as of Tuesday morning.
Over the weekend, Brand New Day was in a close battle with 2019’s Avengers: Endgame for the biggest domestic opening weekend ever. The competition culminated in Sony confirming Monday morning that Spidey had prevailed to claim the crown with $360 million, surpassing Endgame’s $357.1 million domestic start, although the latter’s $1.2 billion global launch maintained the record for worldwide opening weekend. Brand New Day became the second-fastest feature to cross the billion-dollar mark when Sony announced Tuesday morning that it reached the threshold in six days.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day also set records for the biggest Thursday previews and top Friday opening domestic sum, along with becoming Sony’s best-ever launch.
Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal and Mark Ruffalo also star in the new movie from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Cretton. It centers on Marvel Comics’ signature hero as he endures a lonely life without his loved ones before an invisible enemy tracks him down.
When asked about the film standing tall amid apparent superhero fatigue for other recent titles, given that last month’s Supergirl was among those to have underperformed, Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman told The Hollywood Reporter, “The press talks a lot about that, but right now, on anything, the theatrical audience demands greatness. If it’s only OK, they can stay home and see ‘only OK’ all day long on television. If we’re going to ask them make a trip out of it, it’s got to be great. The answer is as simple as that.”
Spider-Man: Brand New Day holds a 90 percent approval rating from reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes. In his review for THR, chief film critic David Rooney praised “a never-better Tom Holland.”
Sony expects Brand New Day to continue drawing audiences in the waning summer weeks to come. Its second weekend will face new competition from such wide releases as One Night Only, Super Troopers 3 and Ice Cream Man.