Spider-Man: Brand New Day passed $1 billion at the worldwide box office within a week of opening, and it got there without playing on a single IMAX screen in North America. That ends this week.
The Sony and Marvel Studios film is the second fastest to the milestone in box office history, behind only Avengers: Endgame. Exactly how fast depends on which trade you read.
How Fast It Actually Got There
Deadline reported the film crossed $1 billion on Monday, calling it a five day run. Variety, Forbes and the Associated Press all place the crossing on Tuesday and count six days. Forbes adds that Endgame’s own sprint to the mark took five days, which would leave Brand New Day a single day short rather than level with it. What every outlet agrees on is the ranking: second fastest ever, behind Endgame and nothing else. It is also the fourth film of 2026 to clear $1 billion, after Toy Story 5, the Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Michael.
Monday actuals put the domestic opening weekend at $360 million from 4,487 North American theaters, up from the $355 million Sony projected on Sunday. That figure took the all-time domestic opening record away from Avengers: Endgame, which had held it at $357.1 million since April 2019.
The global opening weekend was revised to $932 million, which remains second behind Endgame’s $1.22 billion. The film cost a reported $225 million to produce before marketing, so it cleared its production budget more than four times over in under a week.
It Has Already Taken The Year From Toy Story 5
Deadline had expected Brand New Day to finish 2026 as the year’s highest grossing release. It did not take until December. Sony confirmed on Wednesday that the film had reached $1.155 billion worldwide, made up of $449.2 million domestically and $706.3 million overseas, passing Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5 at roughly $1.07 billion. Brand New Day needed seven days. Toy Story 5 needed seven weeks.
The international side is where the gap is widest. Brand New Day’s $706.3 million overseas is the biggest foreign gross of any 2026 release, ahead of Michael at $643.7 million and Toy Story 5 at $604.8 million. Domestically the two films are still close, with Toy Story 5 holding a narrow lead at roughly $464.6 million, though that is expected to fall within days.
The Midweek Records Kept Coming
The opening weekend record was not the end of it. Brand New Day posted the biggest Monday in domestic box office history with $47 million, beating the $40.15 million Black Panther took on Presidents Day in 2018. It followed that with the biggest Tuesday ever at $42 million, which unseated another Sony and Marvel title, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and its $39.2 million on July 2, 2019.
It is also the fastest film ever to $400 million in North America, hitting the mark in four days. Deadline projects that a standard 60 percent second weekend drop would land around $144 million, which would be the third biggest sophomore frame in history behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens at $149.2 million and Endgame at $147.3 million. The IMAX expansion arriving mid week makes that projection conservative rather than optimistic.
The Russo Brothers, directing Avengers: Doomsday, posted artwork congratulating the Brand New Day cast and crew on taking the opening weekend record, writing that the gauntlet has been passed.
The IMAX Screens Finally Arrive
Brand New Day opened against an unusual obstacle. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey had locked up the entire domestic IMAX footprint under a three week exclusivity window that began on July 17, so the biggest preview night in box office history happened on ordinary screens.
That window is now closing, though the exact handover date depends on who is describing it. Deadline reported that Brand New Day expands across the IMAX network in North America beginning Thursday, August 6. IMAX’s own announcement, posted to its social accounts with a new poster, gave the date as Friday, August 7. Both agreed that tickets went on sale Tuesday, August 4.
The two films are splitting the format rather than trading places. The Odyssey keeps all 41 IMAX 70mm film locations worldwide through September, and it has generated more than $221 million in IMAX receipts globally before opening in several major overseas markets.
What IMAX Was Already Worth Overseas
The three markets where Brand New Day did get the large format show what it was missing. The film took more than $23 million in IMAX across China, Japan and South Korea. In China alone that was $19 million, about 16 percent of its opening there and the biggest IMAX opening weekend any Spider-Man film has had in the territory.
South Korea delivered $2.4 million in IMAX, roughly 9 percent of the weekend total and the format’s biggest opening ever in that market, and Japan added $2.2 million, which accounted for about 18 percent of that market’s debut. Applied to a domestic run that already set the record, the format is arriving as a bonus rather than a rescue. Deadline has the full midweek breakdown.
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