Summer Box Office Breaks All-Time Record With $4.67 Billion — SkimNews
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- Summer box office revenue hit an all-time domestic record of $4.76 billion from May 1 through Labor Day on Sept. 7, surpassing 2013's $4.755 billion total (not adjusted for inflation), per Rentrak.
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day has grossed $923 million domestically and $2.4 billion globally to date, making it the third-biggest release ever worldwide behind Avatar ($2.9B) and Avengers: Endgame ($2.7B), and within reach of Star Wars: The Force Awakens' $936 million domestic record.
- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has earned $589 million in North America and $1.62 billion worldwide after eight weekends, with IMAX contributing $486 million globally — a massive 30% of the film's total box office.
- Each of the four summer months generated above $1 billion for the first time in history: May ($1.07B), June ($1.08B), July ($1.18B), and August ($1.27B), per Rentrak.
- Coyote vs. Acme has grossed $38.3 million domestically after two weekends, after Warner Bros. shelved the completed film as a $30 million tax write-off before selling it to indie distributor Ketchup Entertainment.
- Three new holiday releases underperformed: Paramount's By Any Means opened at No. 4 with $9.3 million, Lionsgate's Fall 2: Deadpoint landed at No. 12 with $2.8 million, and A24's Onslaught debuted at No. 13 with $2.2 million.
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day led the four-day Labor Day frame with $23.5 million, its sixth consecutive weekend at No. 1.
Why it matters: Theaters posted a concrete post-pandemic benchmark: a record $4.76 billion summer despite a 7-day-longer season than 2013 and no inflation adjustment, with franchise tentpoles carrying the load — Spider-Man: Brand New Day alone accounts for nearly a fifth of the domestic total. Studios also got a rebuke in the form of Coyote vs. Acme's $38.3M two-weekend run, proof that a mid-budget film can profit when a distributor doesn't shelve it as a tax write-off.
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