Movie Monday: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Snares Another Win

The latest Spider-Man movie may be titled Brand New Day, but at the box office, it comes with the same old results.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day cruised to its third straight weekend win in North America. It earned an estimated $48.3 million—more than doubling the take of its closest competitor—and pushed its total domestic gross to a staggering $785.8 million.

Brand New Day is already the year’s highest-grossing movie in North America, of course. It took those honors last week. Now all eyes are on the box office’s all-time list, where it currently rests at No. 4. It might be tough for Spidey to catch Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens and its $936.7 million to become the highest-grossing film of all time. But Avengers: Endgame ($858.4 million) and Spider-Man: No Way Home ($814.9 million) are very much in danger of being knocked down a peg.

And this is to say nothing of Brand New Day’s overseas domination. The latest Spider-Man movie has now earned more than $2 billion worldwide—enough to put it eighth on the globe’s all-time list. While it might not eclipse Avatar and its $2.9 billion worldwide gross, it trails Avengers: Infinity War for the seventh spot by less than $27 million.

Another box-office holdover, The Odyssey, continues to float at No. 2. It earned another $23.2 million stateside, which gives it $504.7 million in domestic moolah. And it likes that second-place slot just fine, it would seem. In fact, it went ahead and took that silver-medal position in the yearly domestic chart, too, pushing past Toy Story 5 and its $475.5 million.

A horde of newcomers tried (and failed) to topple these two titans. The dinosaur-themed actioner The End of Oak Street was transported into the neighborhood of third place, gobbling up $21 million in box-office receipts. Another dino-themed film—the appropriately named PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie—thumped to fourth place with $20.5 million.

Everything else fell quite a bit behind the big four. The music doc Katseye: Wild Hearts closed out the top five with an estimated $4 million, while Six: The Musical Live! finished (again, rather appropriately) sixth with $3 million. The Cold War drama The Brink of War talked its way into seventh place with $2.7 million.

The Rivals of Amziah King, a surprisingly sweet, bee-themed crime drama, couldn’t stir up enough buzz to climb any higher than 15th, with just a little more than $1 million in earnings. And the tiny Christian flick Elijah Peel landed with a thud at No. 20, earning just $250,000.

Paul Asay

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

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