The fourth Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and set four years after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
A box-office record that survived for more than a decade has finally moved. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has crossed roughly $936.8 million in the United States and Canada, edging past Star Wars: The Force Awakens after only 47 days in theaters. It is an unadjusted record, but within the industry's standard nominal chart, Spider-Man now sits alone at number one.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day no longer needs to prove that it is a blockbuster. At roughly $923 million in North America, Sony and Marvel's movie is now chasing a record that has stood since 2015.
Spider-Man has now beaten the Avengers twice in the same theatrical run: first at the opening-weekend record, and now in total domestic gross. Brand New Day has edged past Avengers: Endgame and moved into second place all time in North America.
Spider-Man: No Way Home held Sony's all-time box-office record for years. Brand New Day needed three weekends to take it away.
Brand New Day is a very good Spider-Man film trapped inside a more conventional Marvel blockbuster. Destin Daniel Cretton understands that Peter Parker is compelling when his powers complicate an already fragile life, and Tom Holland finally brings genuine weight to the role. Zendaya and several remarkably physical action sequences lift the movie considerably. It slips whenever the MCU requires this intimate story to become a junction toward the next one. This is not quite the radical reset promised by the title, but it is probably the best direction this Spider-Man could have taken after No Way Home.
