Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Breaks Opening Day Record With $168 Million
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- Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossed $168M from 4,487 North American theaters on Friday, breaking the $157M opening day record that had stood since 2019's Avengers: Endgame
- Sony projects a $325M Sunday finish for the film; rival estimates go as high as $358M — which would top Endgame's $357M for the biggest North American opening of all time
- Tom Holland reprises Peter Parker, who fights without his closest allies MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon); the supporting cast adds Sadie Sink, Jon Bernthal, Mark Ruffalo, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Tramell Tillman
- The Odyssey held second place at $14.5M Friday, tracking for a $51M weekend (a 43% drop) and a $395M domestic total through its third weekend
- Toy Story 5 took third with $1.8M Friday, targeting $6.2M for the weekend and pushing its North American haul to roughly $461M through four weekends
Why it matters: Sony's **Spider-Man: Brand New Day** shattered the $157M opening day record held since 2019's Avengers: Endgame with $168M — a milestone made starker by bootlegs of the film drawing millions of online views before takedown, per Deadline and Variety. Hitting $358M by Sunday would also unseat Endgame's $357M as the all-time biggest North American opening, a benchmark no film has touched in six years.
