Passing The Force Awakens to take the number six spot at the all-time global box office, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now racing up on Episode VII at the domestic box office as Spidey swings past Avengers: Endgame with $858.4 million. Now just $78.2m behind TFA, it’s looking highly likely that not only will Spidey surpass the highest grossing film in the Star Wars saga, but also be the first to pass a billion at the domestic box office.
Sony Pictures‘ superhero blockbuster has now soared to become the No. 2 highest-grossing film ever domestically with $858.4 million, surpassing the $858.3 million for 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. The title to beat on the all-time North American chart remains 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, standing strong at $936.6 million. This follows the news last week that Brand New Day had become the fastest movie to hit $800 million domestically, doing so in 19 days.
Over the weekend, the Tom Holland-led film that hails from Marvel Studios had surpassed 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home to briefly occupy the No. 3 spot on the all-time domestic box office chart. This also placed Brand New Day as Sony’s highest-grossing domestic film after it set the record over the previous weekend for the top global release in the studio’s history.
As of Sunday, Brand New Day claimed the No. 6 spot on the all-time worldwide box office rankings with $2.22 billion, moving past The Force Awakens with $2.07 billion. Any day now, the latest Spidey movie is expected to overtake Titanic, which currently holds No. 5 with $2.26 billion globally, while Chinese animated fantasy feature Ne Zha 2 looms nearby at No. 4 with $2.27 billion.
Zendaya, Sadie Sink and Jon Bernthal also star in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton’s movie approaching its fifth weekend of release after launching in theaters July 31. Its record-breaking run has included surpassing Endgame for the biggest domestic opening weekend ever with $360 million. It went on to earn the highest-grossing first week in domestic box office history and become the second-fastest film (after Endgame) to reach $1 billion globally.