‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ nets second best North American opening ever with $355 million

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ made box office history in its first weekend in theaters. The Sony-released superhero movie became the second-biggest North American opening ever with an astonishing $355 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

It was just a few million shy of ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ which debuted to $357 million in 2019. The film also made $572 million from over 73,500 screens internationally, with China contributing $121 million alone, adding up to a $927 million worldwide debut that is second only to ‘Endgame’ ($1.2 billion).

Tom Holland’s run as the comic book webslinger has been a mighty one. ‘No Way Home,’ his third standalone Spider-Man movie, made over $1.9 billion worldwide to become the eighth-highest earning movie of all time, not accounting for inflation.

But the triumph of ‘Brand New Day’ also comes on the heels of another major movie featuring Holland and Zendaya: Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ which slid to second place in its third weekend in theaters with $51 million. Their combined might helped propel the biggest weekend of all time for North American movie theaters, with an estimated $430 million in total ticket sales, according to Rentrak.