Spider-Man: Brand New Day Becomes Highest-Grossing Domestic Movie Ever

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has officially become the highest-grossing film in domestic box-office history. Deadline reported on Sept. 16 that Sony’s Destin Daniel Cretton-directed sequel, starring Tom Holland and Zendaya, edged past Star Wars: The Force Awakens with a running North American cume of $936.7 million as of Tuesday — a hair above the decade-long Force Awakens mark of $936.66 million after a $915,000 Tuesday.

ScreenRant put the certified Sony tally at roughly $936.77 million and published a new all-time domestic Top 5 with Brand New Day at No. 1, Force Awakens at No. 2 ($936.66M), Avengers: Endgame at No. 3 ($858.4M), Spider-Man: No Way Home at No. 4 ($814.9M), and Avatar at No. 5 ($785.2M). The gap is tiny in absolute dollars, but the cultural milestone is large: Force Awakens had held the unadjusted domestic crown for more than a decade.

Deadline’s milestone list reads like a summer of unbroken records. Brand New Day, which opened July 31, notched the biggest domestic opening weekend ever ($360 million), the biggest Thursday previews and opening day, six consecutive weekends at No. 1, and the fastest climbs past $400M, $500M, $600M, $700M, $800M, and $900M domestically. It is only the second film ever to clear $900 million in North America and now sits alone atop the all-time domestic chart.

Worldwide, the picture remains in third place with about $2.45 billion, Deadline reported, behind Avatar ($2.92B) and Avengers: Endgame ($2.799B). ScreenRant’s global framing is similar, noting Brand New Day among the top worldwide earners while emphasizing that Force Awakens’ domestic fortress finally fell. Endgame is also getting a re-release this month, Deadline cautioned, which could widen its global lead even as Brand New Day pads its domestic margin.

The film’s creative and franchise context helps explain the run. Cretton’s sequel returns Holland’s Peter Parker to the Marvel Cinematic Universe years after No Way Home, with ScreenRant summarizing the premise as a hero living alone after everyone he loves forgot him — a setup that turned solitude into tentpole scale. Brand New Day is already Holland’s highest-grossing title and Cretton and Zendaya’s top earner, Deadline noted, while Sony’s global opening of $932 million ranked second only to Endgame’s $1.22 billion in 2019.

Near-term competition is thinning just enough to let the record breathe. ScreenRant observed that Brand New Day was dethroned atop the weekly chart this weekend by Practical Magic 2 and may face further weekend pressure from Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, but it does not meet another major action tentpole until Street Fighter on Oct. 16. That runway matters if Sony wants to widen the microscopic lead over Force Awakens before fall event titles arrive.

Longevity is the open question. Force Awakens held the domestic throne for 11 years; ScreenRant flagged a crowded horizon of Avengers: Doomsday, Shrek 5, Frozen 3, The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, and Avengers: Secret Wars as future challengers. Crossing a true $1 billion domestic line still looks unlikely given the decelerating legs, both outlets imply, yet Brand New Day is already the closest any wide release has come in North America — with China’s Ne Zha 2 remaining the rare title to clear a billion in a single territory, per ScreenRant.

For exhibitors and studios, the Sept. 16 handoff is less about a single Tuesday gross than about what a web-slinger sequel just proved: opening-weekend fireworks, six-week dominance, and a final push past a Star Wars landmark are still possible in a fragmented theatrical market. Dual sourcing from Deadline’s box-office desk and ScreenRant’s certified chart confirms the same headline — Brand New Day is the new domestic No. 1 — while the worldwide race and the fall calendar will decide how long the crown stays on Peter Parker’s head.