‘Spider-Man’ Races to the $2 Billion Mark, Notching Sony’s Highest-Selling Movie

The Sony Pictures superhero film extended its domination at the domestic box office. (Courtesy Jay Maidment/Sony Pictures)

Key Points

• “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” surpassed $2.02 billion in global box office in three weekends, becoming Sony Pictures’ highest-grossing film ever.
• The film’s success helped push year to date domestic box office sales to $6.87 billion, which is 19.4% higher than at this point last year.
• Universal’s “The Odyssey” came in second place for the weekend, bringing its global total to more than $1.29 billion.

Sony Pictures now has its biggest grossing film ever after the latest Spider-Man expanded its domination of the global box office for a third straight weekend.

Columbia Pictures’ presentation of Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day sold another estimated $70 million of tickets at more than 4,500 North American locations this weekend, expanding its domestic total to more than $785.8 million in only three weekends.

Brand New Day, starring Tom Holland as a crime-fighting superhero the world has forgotten, performed even better internationally, notching nearly $1.24 billion in ticket sales outside the U.S. to surpass $2.02 billion in global box office in only three weekends. The movie is distributed by Sony Pictures.

Rentrak’s head of marketplace trends Paul Dergarabedian called it an “amazing milestone,” in a social media post. “The film crosses $2 billion at the worldwide box office, achieving the milestone as the 2nd fastest film ever and only the 8th movie to do so overall. … making it Sony’s highest-grossing release ever.” He added that the haul puts the current film ahead of 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home.

For Hollywood, this weekend’s estimated $160.1 million in domestic box office ticket sales brings the year to date box office take to nearly $6.87 billion, or 19.4% higher than at this point last year, according to Rentrak. Analysts say Hollywood has the potential to surpass $10 billion in revenue this year for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.

“$10 billion is absolutely in play,” Dergarabedian told Barron’s. The $6.87 billion in domestic box office through Sunday is more than $1.11 billion ahead of this point in 2025. With fall and holiday movies still to come and although there are never any guarantees in this business, “reaching $10 billion has gone from something that looked aspirational earlier in the year to a very realistic possibility.”

The summer box office since May 1 is at an estimated $4.24 billion through Sunday, up 23.6% from this point in 2025 and 5.7% higher than summer 2019. Summer box office typically accounts for about 40% of the year’s total.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened in China and South Korea the Wednesday before it opened July 31 in the U.S. and Japan. It opened with more than $360 million of ticket sales in North America, and is the second-fastest to surpass $2 billion worldwide since Walt Disney’s Avengers: Endgame, which did so in 11 days in April 2019.

Avengers: Endgame eventually grossed $2.8 billion worldwide, and more than 69% of that came from outside the U.S., including $632.1 million from China, according to BoxOfficeMojo.

Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, grossed $814.9 million domestically and more than $1.92 billion in global box office, but never opened in China.

In second place again this weekend, Universal’s three-hour epic The Odyssey sold another $23.2 million in its fifth weekend, bringing its domestic take to $504.7 million and its global total to more than $1.29 billion, according to Rentrak.

As the first movie filmed entirely in IMAX 70mm, Odyssey sold another $37 million in IMAX global box office, including $13 million in its China debut, bringing its global total to $346.4 million. The Odyssey is now the highest grossing IMAX film of all time in 56 countries, and the first IMAX movie ever to exceed $300 million in global box office, according to Rentrak.

The two blockbusters overshadowed the other films that opened this weekend, including Warner Bros.’ sci-fi thriller The End of Oak Street, and Paramount’s PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, which each opened in about 3,500 locations in North America.

The PG-13 rated End of Oak Street, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, about a cosmic event that transports a family’s quiet suburban neighborhood to someplace unknown, sold $21 million to come in a distant third place this weekend.

PAW Patrol, a PG-rated animated adventure about the team’s latest rescue mission on a mysterious dinosaur island, came in fourth place with an estimated $20.5 million this weekend. It sold another $26 million internationally for a $47 million global debut, according to Rentrak.

In eighth place, Disney Pixar’s Toy Story 5 sold another $2.3 million, bringing its domestic total to $475.5 million and its worldwide total to $1.11 billion over nine weeks.

Write to Janet H. Cho at janet.cho@dowjones.com

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