“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has landed one of the biggest openings in box-office history. The film took an estimated $360 million in the United States and Canada over its debut weekend, a figure revised upward from the $355 million first projected on Sunday and worth roughly 3.4 billion Swedish kronor. That was enough to overtake “Avengers: Endgame” and claim the largest opening weekend ever recorded in North America.
Star power did not hurt. The film pairs Tom Holland, back in the title role, with Zendaya, and it has already pulled in around $932 million worldwide, underlining how quickly a Marvel and Spider-Man release can turn a strong opening into a global haul.
For a cinema business that has spent recent years worrying about whether audiences would return to theatres in the old numbers, an opening on this scale is a reassuring data point. The figures come from box-office tracking rather than the studio, so the finer details may shift, but the headline is not in doubt: this is, for now, the biggest domestic launch the industry has seen.