Two Tom Holland movies fought each other for the top spot this Labor Day weekend, and the older one won.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been North America's No. 1 film for six consecutive weekends now, a run nobody's matched since Avatar: The Way of Water in 2022. It added $18 million over the traditional three days and an estimated $23 million across the full four-day holiday frame, according to Variety. That puts its domestic total at $923 million through Sunday. Deadline pegs it at roughly $13.66 million shy of Star Wars: The Force Awakens' $936.66 million, which is still the highest-grossing film ever at the North American box office, unadjusted for inflation.

But globally, this was the weekend Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey finally got its own headline. Deadline reports Odyssey pulled in $45.96 million worldwide against Brand New Day's $44.1 million, a narrow win in its eighth weekend against Spider-Man's sixth. Odyssey has now crossed $1.627 billion worldwide, closing in on Jurassic World's $1.67 billion to become the biggest release in Universal's history. Its Imax haul alone stands at $486 million, the format's best ever.

Spider-Man still holds the bigger number. At $2.4 billion worldwide, it's the third-biggest film of all time, behind only Avatar ($2.9 billion) and Avengers: Endgame (around $2.8 billion), and ahead of Avatar: The Way of Water. The two films split the map depending on territory. Odyssey has won in Korea, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia. Brand New Day has the edge in China, Germany, the UK, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and India, where it's earned $62 million so far.

A Quiet Labor Day For Newcomers

None of the weekend's new wide releases put up a fight. Paramount's crime thriller By Any Means, starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, opened fourth with $7 million and an estimated $9 million through Monday, a solid CinemaScore B+ despite so-so reviews. Fall 2: Deadpoint landed at No. 12 with roughly $2.9 million over four days, tracking close to its 2022 predecessor. Adam Wingard's Onslaught, with Adria Arjona, fared worse still, debuting to a C CinemaScore that doesn't bode well for its run.

Coyote vs. Acme, the Looney Tunes spinoff Warner Bros. Once shelved as a tax write-off before selling it off, keeps quietly building an audience, holding at No. 3 with $37 million domestic so far.

The Summer's Books Are Closing

Rentrak has the May-to-September domestic tally at $4.7 billion, the second-biggest summer ever behind 2013's $4.755 billion. Analyst Paul Dergarabedian called it a reminder of what theatrical moviegoing can still do when the films show up. Whether that momentum survives into fall is the open question now, with Practical Magic 2, Tom Cruise's Digger, a Zach Cregger-directed Resident Evil reboot and the Anne Hathaway-Dakota Johnson adaptation of Verity all due before the year's out.

Spider-Man still needs one more decent weekend to own the domestic record outright. Whether Nolan's ship gets there first globally is now genuinely up for grabs.