Spider-Man: Brand New Day has done what Avengers: Endgame, every other Star Wars sequel and a decade of Marvel movies couldn't. As of Tuesday, the Tom Holland sequel has passed Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing film in North American box office history.

The exact numbers wobble slightly depending on who you ask. Deadline put The Force Awakens' final tally at $936.66 million and Brand New Day's running cume at $936.7 million. Collider rounded both to $936.7 million. JoBlo, citing Variety, had Brand New Day finishing the weekend at $936.773 million after 47 days in theatres. Nobody's arguing about the outcome, just the decimal points. The Force Awakens sat on top of the domestic chart for almost 11 years. That run is over.

What makes the record odder is the timing. Brand New Day isn't even the top movie in America right now. JoBlo notes it held the number one spot for six straight weeks after its July 31 release before Practical Magic 2, with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman back for another round of witchery, knocked it off last week. It just kept earning enough on the way down to overtake a movie it was never really racing against on any given weekend.

The bigger picture

The film's opening alone tells you how this happened. Brand New Day debuted to $360.1 million domestically, edging past Endgame's $357.1 million to claim the biggest domestic opening ever, and Sony has confirmed a $932 million worldwide opening weekend, the second-biggest global bow of all time behind Endgame's $1.22 billion. Worldwide, Deadline has the film at $2.45 billion, good for third all-time behind Avatar's $2.92 billion and Endgame's $2.799 billion, though Endgame's own re-release later this month could stretch that gap further.

Crossing $1 billion domestically is the next milestone people are watching for, and Deadline reports the experts it spoke to don't rate the odds highly without a theatrical re-issue.

The post-credits scene has already got people talking about an Avengers tie-in, but Sony's Tom Rothman was careful, weeks before this record fell, not to promise Holland's future. "No, not in any concrete sense, only aspirational," he told JoBlo, adding that hearing Holland speak enthusiastically about returning made him "jump for joy."

Don't expect movement soon. Marvel's Kevin Feige told Collider that Holland and Zendaya are owed a break after the film's global promotional run, saying the pair "are going to take a good and restful victory lap, which they very much deserve." Rothman, for his part, credited the five-year gap since No Way Home for building the appetite that just broke a decade-old record, calling it a deliberate choice to go "deeper" rather than bigger.

So the crown has changed hands. What Sony does with it, and when Holland puts the suit back on, is still very much unwritten.