Spider-Man: Brand New Day crushes competition with $355M opening weekend

This weekend, it’s a game of Marvel trying to beat Marvel at the weekend box office. Spider-Man: Brand New Day continued to post an all-time record opening day/previews yesterday with $168M, feasibly outstripping the previous first day record owned by Avengers: Endgame ($157.4M). Still, there’s isn’t a unison of opinion out there that Brand New Day will take down Avengers: Endgame‘s all-time opening record of $357.1M. Some believe it boils down to Sunday where a $5M swing is possible. Sony is calling their 3-day weekend at $355M, which is a wonderful second-best ever start in North America, but others think the opening here is closer to $350M+.

However this winds up, of course, it’s the biggest ever domestic opening for Sony, stratospheres above Spider-Man: No Way Home’s $260.1M. It’s also a record start for director Destin Daniel Cretton, Zendaya and the second best for Tom Holland after Endgame.

As we told you, for all movies, this is a record weekend ahead of the final April weekend of 2019 when Avengers: Endgame led all pics to $402M. Current estimate is $434M, +262% from the same frame a year ago when Disney/Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps led in its second frame, and +195% from last weekend’s $147.3M. No doubt about it, theatrical is alive.

1 Spider-Man: Brand New Day

$355.0M; $355.0M 

(Week 1)

2The Odyssey: $51.0M; $395.5M 

(Week 3)

3.Toy Story 5: $6.3M; $461.7M

 (Week 7)

4. Minions & Monsters: $5.8M; $168.4M 

(Week 5)

5. Moana: $5.3M; $114.8M (Week 4)