Tom Holland's fourth solo outing has quietly crossed Star Wars: The Force Awakens' eleven-year-old North American haul, even as its daily numbers slip into the low thousands.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day just quietly rewrote Hollywood's record books, and it didn't even need a big weekend to do it.
On its seventh Tuesday in theatres, the Tom Holland sequel pulled in $915,000 domestically, enough to push its North American cume to $936.8 million. That's enough to slide past Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which had held the all-time domestic crown since 2015 with a lifetime haul of $936.7 million, re-releases included.
Eleven years is a long time for a record to stand in a business this jumpy. JJ Abrams' Star Wars sequel arrived at a moment when the franchise had every bit of goodwill in the world behind it, and it never really got dislodged, not through Avengers: Endgame, not through anything since. Brand New Day has now done it on the back of a slow, grinding second half of its run rather than one monster opening weekend.
The number is a little funny-looking on paper. Spider-Man 4 has actually dropped to third on the daily chart, and Tuesday's collection is under a million dollars, down 39.1% from the previous discount Tuesday. It also lost 217 theatres on the Friday before. None of that matters for the record books. A record's a record, whichever day it falls on.
And this isn't the ceiling. Trackers now have Brand New Day finishing somewhere around $960 million domestic, which would make it the first Hollywood film to clear the $950 million mark in North America. That's a genuinely new tier, not just a nudge past the old one.
Zoom out and the film's numbers get bigger still. Worldwide, Brand New Day sits at $2.45 billion, the biggest hit of the year anywhere in the world. That total has also made Tom Holland, at just 30, the highest-grossing actor in box office history worldwide, a title that usually takes decades and multiple franchises to earn.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the film follows a Peter Parker the world has forgotten, grinding it out solo as Spider-Man until the pressure catches up with him and a new villain shows up to make things worse. It released on July 31, which means this record run has taken close to seven weeks of steady, unglamorous Tuesday-by-Tuesday accumulation to complete.
The studio will want the film to keep limping along through smaller markets and matinee crowds until it locks in that $950-plus million number for good. Until then, every discount Tuesday is still worth watching.
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