UPDATE: The numbers kept climbing. The third weekend finalized at $71 million, the second-best third frame in box office history behind only The Force Awakens, and the run past Avatar put Brand New Day fourth all-time domestic. It’s now the fastest movie ever to $800 million domestic, crossing in a record 19 days, with No Way Home‘s third-place total next, and it crossed $2 billion worldwide in 17 days, the eighth movie ever and the second-fastest behind Endgame. It has since won a fourth straight weekend with $39 million, passing No Way Home for third all-time domestic at $854.9 million, and it has now passed Endgame at $858.4 million for second all-time, behind only The Force Awakens.
Third weekend, same result: Spider-Man: Brand New Day is still the biggest thing in theaters, and now it’s climbing the all-time list.
Per Deadline’s Saturday estimates, Brand New Day banked a $19 million Friday for a third weekend around $67 million, a 54 percent drop, taking the domestic total to $782.8 million.
Here’s the milestone that comes with it: Brand New Day passed Top Gun: Maverick‘s $722 million on Friday, and it closes the weekend as the fifth highest-grossing movie in domestic box office history, days after becoming the fastest movie ever to $700 million.
Only four movies remain above it: Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.6 million), Avengers: Endgame ($858.3 million), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($814.8 million), and Avatar ($785.2 million).
Two of them are the movies Spidey has spent three weeks knocking off the record books, one is its own predecessor, and the last one is $2.4 million away.
At this pace, Avatar should fall on Monday.
Fourth-Best Third Weekend Ever
The $67 million ranks as the fourth-biggest third weekend in domestic history, ahead of Black Panther‘s $66.3 million and Endgame‘s $63.2 million, with the record still held by The Force Awakens at $90.2 million.
For franchise context, No Way Home‘s third weekend was $56 million.
Spidey is running well ahead of the pace that produced $814.8 million, and it just added 52 theaters for a 4,539-location footprint instead of losing any, with roughly half of K-12 schools already back in session.
The full second-week numbers came in too: $205.7 million for week two, above Endgame‘s $186.5 million and behind only The Force Awakens‘ $261.1 million.
Deadline also notes the history: $67 million is the most any number one movie has made on the 33rd weekend of the year since the pandemic, and it lifts the overall weekend to an estimated $158 million, ahead of the same weekend in 2024 when Alien: Romulus opened.
The Odyssey Sails Past $500 Million
Second place belongs to The Odyssey again, and the hold is absurd: $23 million in weekend five on a 27 percent drop, still powered by IMAX, taking Christopher Nolan’s epic past half a billion domestic to $504.4 million by Sunday.
The biggest movie of Nolan’s career is beating both new dinosaur movies in its fifth weekend, and the IMAX co-share that started August 6 continues to feed both blockbusters at once.
The Dinos Fight For Third
Below the two giants, the weekend’s newcomers are in a dead heat at around $20 million apiece: Paramount’s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie with an A CinemaScore, and Warner Bros. and Bad Robot’s The End of Oak Street with a B.
That’s a preschool cartoon matching an $80 million-plus effects movie, and we broke down the full Oak Street picture here, from the missing Anne Hathaway audience to Warner Bros.’ year without a single $40 million opening.
The rest of the top 10 is small change: Trafalgar’s Katseye documentary Wild Hearts takes fifth at $3.6 million, Six: The Musical Live lands $3 million, Angel Studios’ The Brink of War opens to $2.75 million with an A CinemaScore, Toy Story 5 adds $2.2 million on its way to $475 million, and One Night Only drops 61 percent in weekend two.
What’s Next: Avatar, No Way Home, And $2 Billion
Domestically, the ladder gets personal from here. Avatar‘s $785.2 million is next, then No Way Home‘s $814.8 million sits roughly $32 million away and likely falls next weekend, with Endgame‘s $858.3 million after that.
Worldwide, the picture updates Sunday, and the math has Brand New Day right on top of No Way Home‘s $1.92 billion franchise record with the $2 billion club right behind it, the international run already the biggest in Sony history.
These are Saturday estimates, with studio numbers Sunday and actuals Monday. Follow every record at the Spider-Man: Brand New Day hub.
