Uncle Ben and Aunt May once told Peter Parker that with great power comes great responsibility. Turns out, great power at the box office comes with a great deal of money, too.
In a weekend filled with cinematic afterthoughts, Spider-Man: Brand New Day spun its way to another amazing weekend. The superhero film smashed its way to an estimated $145 million in North America. That pushed Brand New Day’s domestic haul to a spectacular $655.1 million and makes the superhero film the cinematic kingpin for 2026, besting Toy Story 5 and its $470.4 million by—well, a lot.
Think that’s something? Turn your attention to Spidey’s performance overseas. Brand New Day has already cracked $1 billion in international markets (faster than any film has ever done) to push its worldwide gross to nearly $1.67 billion. That’s a lot of green, goblin.
The Odyssey continues its own titanic run. Christopher Nolan’s epic sacked another $31.5 million this weekend to sail into second place. The Odyssey has gathered in $461.2 million stateside during its month-long run—enough to make it the third highest-grossing film of the year—and $1.1 billion worldwide.
A couple of newcomers finished in the top five, but they lagged far behind the leaders. One Night Only, a sort of nonviolent romcom version of The Purge, bedded about $5.7 million during its first weekend of work. Meanwhile, Super Troopers 3 pulled over a lowly $4 million, the lowest debut in the franchise’s dubious history. It finished fourth, of course.
Meanwhile, Toy Story 5 continues to (ahem) Lily-pad its own totals. It collected another $3.9 million to close out the weekend’s top five. As mentioned, the animated flick has earned $470.4 million stateside, and it has buzzed to $1.1 billion globally.
But you aren’t reading this blog to hear about Spider-Man or Odysseus or even Bullseye the horse. You really want to know how The Ice Cream Man—Eli Roth’s uber-bloody, unrated horror travesty—performed. Turns out, it scooped up a mere $2 million: a fairly vanilla debut that dropped the horror flick to eighth place. Apparently, the only folks screaming for The Ice Cream Man were the film’s accountants.
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I liked Spider-Man but was rather surprised at the amount of language, including several censored f-words and I could have sworn I heard one of the dorm-party girls using the word in an audio-mumbled conversation with her friend.
I read your all’s review of Eli Roth’s new film and got bored just reading it. I think that’s part of why Obsession was so effective – it got the same point across with two non-contiguous segments that don’t last more than a few seconds apiece, and it had something important to say in the process about the consequences of how we men treat women and how “love” can become corrupted and even dangerous when we turn it into a demand that takes away someone else’s personal agency.