Spider-Man: Brand New Day just scored the highest-grossing domestic opening weekend ever.
The Sony-Marvel production grossed $360 million domestically and $572 million overseas, for a $932 million global launch.
It’s an extraordinary result, and it’s quite interesting that the previous domestic record holder was 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.
Because it was Endgame that marked the conclusion of the golden age of the MCU and, after the pandemic struck, comic book films at the box office were perceived as struggling with their own chronic ailment — superhero fatigue.
There have been post-Endgame successes, of course. DC had successful franchise reboots with The Batman in 2022 and Superman in 2025. For Marvel, there was 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 2023’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and 2024’s blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine — the only non-Spider-Man Marvel title to cross the billion mark since Endgame).
