Spider-Man: Brand New Day has sat comfortably in the box office top five for the past eight weekends since its release on July 31 (and it held the No. 1 spot for six of those weeks). It’s the highest-earning domestic film of all time, with nearly a billion dollars in takings. Worldwide, it sits in third place with $2.4 billion. Impressive stuff.
So what film finally “snapped” Spidey away from the weekend top five list? Well, the No. 2 worldwide earner (and another film starring Spider-Man, ironically): 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.
OK, so technically Brand New Day got bumped down to seventh place, which means there are actually five other films that also took Peter Parker to task. However, Avengers Endgame: Encore took the No. 1 spot this weekend with $26 million domestically and $86 million worldwide—and it’s a re-release.
Oh yes, audiences piled into theaters this weekend to watch a film that they’ve likely already seen. They know the plot twists. They know the ending. And yet, they sat in theaters for three hours, why? Because of a promised three minutes’ worth of additional footage.
There’s probably a lot to say about that phenomenon, especially when you consider that depending on the format someone saw the film in, he or she might not have gotten the full three minutes: Those who watched a standard screening of Encore only got two extra minutes; IMAX and Infinity Vision got five. Regardless, that’s not the best new-footage-to-old-footage ratio, but this weekend’s moviegoers didn’t seem to mind.
Moving on down the list, Resident Evil (a reimagining of the infamous zombie-horror multimedia franchise) came in second place with $23.3 million in domestic earnings. Heart of the Beast, a classic “Does the Dog Die?” film, brought home $20 million for the bronze. That could buy a lot of dog treats.
Stepping off the pedestal, fourth place went to Primetime. The Robert Pattinson-starring To Catch a Predator biopic earned $19.2 million with American audiences. And DreamWorks’ Forgotten Island closed out the weekend’s top five with $12.8 million. We’ll have to wait for next weekend’s box office results to see if this colorful animated flick will bounce back or be forgotten.
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