Two movies, one very good week for Tom Holland's bank account of box office claims. Between Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, both still running in theatres, Holland's cumulative lifetime gross has crossed $15.5 billion, per figures cited by ComicBook.com. That makes him, as of this weekend, the highest-grossing actor of all time.

He got there fast. Spider-Man: Brand New Day added another $27.4 million worldwide over the weekend, according to Deadline's numbers, pushing its total to $2.452 billion. That's already the third highest-grossing film ever made, and it's still climbing. Domestically it needs just $18.9 million more to pull ahead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and take the all-time North American record, a milestone that could fall within days rather than weeks.

The Odyssey isn't slowing him down either. Christopher Nolan's film picked up $34.4 million worldwide over the same weekend, taking its own total to $1.68 billion. Two very different films, one very large number, and together they've done what a decade of Marvel paychecks alone hadn't quite managed.

The list Holland just climbed past reads like the MCU's own credits roll. Zoe Saldana held the top spot going into this month at $15.468 billion, a lead she built on the back of Avatar: Fire and Ash earlier this year. Before her it was Scarlett Johansson at $15.401 billion. Samuel L. Jackson sits at $14.6 billion, Robert Downey Jr. At $14.3 billion, Chris Pratt at $14.1 billion. Every single name on that list, Holland included, owes a large chunk of it to Marvel Studios, whose ensemble strategy has quietly built the highest-earning filmography roster in the business. Avengers: Endgame remains the second highest-grossing film ever. Infinity War sits at sixth.

What's notable here is that Holland didn't need an ensemble tentpole to get past the pack. Brand New Day is a solo Spider-Man outing, and The Odyssey isn't a franchise film at all. Two very different bets, both paying off in the same fortnight, is not something that happens by accident, and it's a fairly loud statement about where his box office pull sits right now compared to actors twice his age with three times the filmography.

The number will keep moving. Brand New Day's chase of the domestic record is the more immediate story, given how close it now sits to Force Awakens, and that gap could close before the film even leaves its opening-run screens. Whether Saldana or anyone else mounts a quick answer to reclaim the top spot is the next thing worth watching.