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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Just Passed Avengers: Endgame

Patrick W.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has passed Avengers: Endgame's all-time domestic total — $858.4M and still climbing, on a $225M budget. We didn't see this coming.

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The Number Nobody Called

We will be honest: nobody in this house predicted this. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has now passed Avengers: Endgame’s all-time domestic box office total — $858.4 million against Endgame’s $858.3 million — and it did it in under four weeks, a record that took Marvel’s biggest-ever ensemble film seven years to hold.

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How It Got Here

The opening weekend already told part of the story — $360.1 million is the single biggest domestic opening any film has ever had, edging out Endgame’s own 2019 record by nearly $3 million. What is more unusual is that the film kept that momentum going rather than front-loading it: it became the fastest film in history to reach $1 billion worldwide after Endgame itself, and it is still adding tens of millions a week domestically a full month into release, most recently topping the charts again in its fourth weekend against new competition.

We reviewed Brand New Day at launch and rated it a full 5 out of 5our review calls it the best Marvel film yet made, and it sits at #1 on our Top 10 Marvel movies list, ahead of every Avengers film. A decade-plus Spider-Man arc landing a genuinely well-received ending, paired with a quiet late-summer release calendar and little direct competition, is the most likely combination behind the numbers.

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What “Record” Actually Means Here

Worth being precise: this is the domestic all-time gross record, unadjusted for ticket-price inflation — older films like Star Wars and E.T. still lead comfortably once inflation is accounted for, and several films remain ahead on the global all-time chart. What it is: the single biggest amount any film has made at the North American box office, reached faster than the previous record-holder managed it.

For a trilogy that opened in 2017 with Homecoming as a relatively modest reboot, ending on the biggest domestic run any film has had is a genuinely remarkable trajectory for a franchise, not just a film.

The Dadnology Take

We called Brand New Day the best Marvel film yet made when we reviewed it, and the box office has now made its own, much larger case for the same conclusion. Passing Endgame domestically in under a month is not a fluke of scheduling — it is a decade of Spider-Man storytelling landing its ending in front of an audience that showed up in numbers nobody, including us, predicted.

Has Spider-Man: Brand New Day really beaten Avengers: Endgame at the box office?

Yes, domestically. As of this writing it has grossed $858.4 million in the United States and Canada, edging past Endgame’s $858.3 million domestic total from 2019. It also opened bigger: $360.1 million in its first weekend against Endgame’s $357.1 million, the biggest domestic opening in box office history.

How much has Spider-Man: Brand New Day made worldwide?

$2.22 billion and climbing, against a reported $225 million production budget — nearly ten times its budget back already.

When did Spider-Man: Brand New Day come out?

It opened wide in the United States on July 31, 2026, meaning it passed Endgame’s seven-year-old domestic record in under four weeks.

Why is Spider-Man: Brand New Day doing so well?

There is no single confirmed reason, but the film’s own quality is doing real work — we rated it a full 5 out of 5 and called it the best Marvel film yet made. A ten-plus-year Spider-Man trilogy with Tom Holland reaching a genuine, well-reviewed conclusion, combined with a rare August-to-September run with little direct competition, is the most likely combination.

Patrick W.Founder & Editor

Father of two, keen nature & landscape photographer, and smart-home tinkerer based in rural Germany. Camera gear gets tested outdoors in real conditions — not on a studio bench — and the house runs on a home network more elaborate than it strictly needs to be. Everything reviewed here has to survive real family life: school runs, sticky fingers, and the odd toddler stress-test. Reviews are never sponsored — no paid placements, no press-sample deals. How we test →

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