Spider-Man: Brand New Day earned $145 million in its second domestic weekend, a 59% drop that still ranks as the third-biggest sophomore frame in box office history. The film has now grossed $654.3 million domestically in ten days — the highest ten-day domestic total ever recorded — and has passed $1 billion overseas.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s second weekend by the numbers
Sony’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day second weekend landed at $145 million domestic across the August 7–9 frame, holding the number one spot comfortably ahead of The Odyssey. That is a 59% decline from its opening weekend.
A 59% drop sounds alarming if you’re used to reading box office coverage where anything past 50% gets framed as a collapse. It isn’t. For a film that opened at record altitude, that hold is almost exactly what the model predicts — and the comparison below shows why.
| Film | Opening weekend | Second weekend | Drop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) | $360.0M | $145.0M | −59% |
| Avengers: Endgame (2019) | $357.1M | $147.4M | −58.7% |
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | $248.0M | $149.2M | −39.8% |
Brand New Day’s hold is within a third of a percentage point of Endgame’s. The two films are behaving identically. The Force Awakens held far better in percentage terms, but that’s a function of a much smaller opening — it had less altitude to fall from and a longer December runway.
The record almost everyone reported wrong
Here’s the part of this story that got mangled in real time, and it’s worth correcting because the wrong version is still circulating.
On Sunday, August 2, studios released their weekend estimates. Sony’s estimate put Brand New Day at $355 million. Because Avengers: Endgame’s opening stands at $357.1 million, that meant Spider-Man had missed the all-time record by roughly $2 million. Outlets including CNBC, The Hollywood Reporter and CNN all ran the “second-biggest opening ever” framing.
Then Monday’s actuals came in. The final figure was $360 million — and Brand New Day had taken the record after all. Variety and Forbes both filed follow-ups reversing the previous day’s headline.
This is a structural quirk of box office reporting rather than a mistake by any one outlet. Sunday numbers are studio projections of Sunday business, and studios estimate conservatively when a record is within a few million dollars, because overshooting an estimate is far more embarrassing than undershooting one. When a film lands inside the margin of error of an all-time record, the Sunday number is the least reliable number of the entire run. The lesson for anyone tracking these milestones: wait for Monday.
The ten-day total is the real headline
Second weekends make good headlines, but the number that actually signals where a film finishes is the cumulative total. Per Box Office Mojo, Brand New Day sat at $654,342,914 domestic after ten days in release, adding $44.8 million on Sunday, August 9 alone.
That is the highest ten-day domestic gross any film has ever posted. Internationally the film has crossed the $1 billion mark on its own, after a $927 million global opening weekend that included $572 million from overseas markets.
For context on why this matters more than the weekend drop: a 59% second-weekend decline paired with a record cumulative total means the film is converting its opening audience into repeat viewing and word-of-mouth at a healthy rate. A film in genuine trouble shows a steep drop and a soft cumulative. Brand New Day has one, not both.
What Brand New Day is chasing next
With the opening-weekend record secured and the ten-day record set, the remaining targets are the all-time worldwide charts. Those are a different kind of climb: they reward legs over launch, and they’re where Avatar and Avengers: Endgame built their leads over months, not weekends.
The next meaningful checkpoints are the domestic $700 million and $800 million marks, and whether the film’s weekday holds stay strong enough through late August to matter. We covered the film’s record-setting $72 million preview night when it opened, and the trajectory since has outrun even the optimistic projections from that weekend.
If you want the wider picture of where this lands historically, our ranking of the highest-grossing superhero movies of all time tracks the full chart. And for what’s next on Marvel’s slate, our Avengers: Doomsday guide covers the film that will inherit this run.
Frequently asked questions
How much did Spider-Man: Brand New Day make in its second weekend?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day earned $145 million domestically in its second weekend (August 7–9, 2026), a 59% decline from its opening. That is the third-biggest second weekend in box office history.
Did Spider-Man: Brand New Day beat Avengers: Endgame’s opening record?
Yes. Sunday estimates put it at $355 million, just short of Endgame’s $357.1 million, but Monday actuals came in at $360 million — making it the biggest domestic opening weekend ever.
What is Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s total box office so far?
The film had grossed $654.3 million domestically through August 9, 2026, its tenth day in release, plus more than $1 billion internationally.
Is a 59% second-weekend drop bad?
No. Avengers: Endgame dropped 58.7% in its second weekend from a nearly identical opening. Large openings mathematically produce large percentage drops because so much of the audience front-loads into opening weekend.
