Spider-Man: Brand New Day has added another entry to what is becoming one of the most impressive box office runs in cinema history. As of Wednesday 13 August, the Tom Holland-led Marvel blockbuster had taken $704.5 million at the domestic US box office — making it the fastest film ever to reach $700 million in North America, surpassing a record previously held by Avengers: Endgame.
The milestone arrived less than two weeks after the film’s opening weekend, a pace that has left industry analysts struggling to find meaningful comparisons. Only six films had previously reached $700 million at the North American box office at all — Brand New Day has now become the seventh, and done it faster than any of them.
A Record Already Built on Records
To understand what $700 million in under a fortnight means, it helps to look at what came before it. Brand New Day had already claimed the biggest domestic opening weekend in history, pulling in $360 million in its first three days and dethroning Avengers: Endgame’s $357 million record from 2019. That opening weekend alone was enough to rank among the biggest weeks in North American box office history.
The second weekend held extraordinarily well — $145 million domestically, the third-best second weekend ever behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($149 million) and Avengers: Endgame ($147 million). By day ten, Brand New Day had outgrossed every film in history over the same time window, reaching $655 million domestically before most blockbusters would be wrapping up their theatrical campaigns.
Brand New Day’s opening weekend was covered here when it first broke records in early August — but the pace since then has shown no sign of slowing.
Where It Sits in Cinema History
With $704.5 million domestically, Spider-Man: Brand New Day now sits seventh on the all-time North American box office chart. It is only the fourth Marvel Studios film to reach that figure, following Black Panther ($700.4 million), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($814.8 million), and Avengers: Endgame ($858.3 million).
Globally, the film is tracking just shy of $1.8 billion — a figure that puts it within reach of the all-time global charts. Only nine films in history have surpassed $2 billion, with Avengers: Endgame holding the record at $2.79 billion. Whether Brand New Day reaches that territory will depend on how it holds in coming weeks, particularly across international markets where it is still in wide release.
Records broken so far: Biggest domestic opening weekend ever · Fastest film to $400M, $500M, $600M and $700M domestically · Third-best second weekend ever · $1 billion globally in six days.
Critical Reception and What the Film Is Actually Like
Commercial success and critical approval don’t always travel together — but Brand New Day has managed both. IGN scored the film a 7 out of 10, noting that it “effectively refocuses on the most reliable pillars of the webslinger: battling inner turmoil, swinging around NYC saving the day, and looking cool while doing so.” Rotten Tomatoes critics sit at 90%, with audiences pushing the audience score even higher.
Tom Holland leads the film alongside Zendaya, who has had a remarkable 2026 at the cinema — Brand New Day follows her co-starring role with Robert Pattinson in The Drama earlier in the year. Both Holland and Zendaya now rank among the summer’s biggest box office draws, with Brand New Day comfortably outgrossing every other 2026 release to date.
What’s Next for the Box Office Run?
The films that have historically overtaken Spider-Man: No Way Home’s domestic total of $814.8 million have done so in part because of unusually strong legs — long theatrical runs that kept audiences returning. Brand New Day will need that same staying power to challenge Endgame’s domestic record of $858.3 million or push toward the $900 million mark that would make it, outright, the biggest domestic release of all time.
The summer box office is thinning out, which works in its favour. With fewer major releases competing for screens in the coming weeks, Brand New Day has a clear runway. Whether it takes it is the next question the industry is watching.
