Spider-Man: Brand New Day Passes Supergirl's Entire Box Office In 1 Day & Confirms A Harsh DC Truth

The first box office reports for Spider-Man: Brand New Day are starting to arrive, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie has already managed to surpass Supergirl's entire box office run in a single day, which brings about a harsh truth for the new DC Universe. Tom Holland's Spider-Man movies have always been box office hits. His lowest-performer would top other heroes' franchises.

That would be 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming, which amassed $881 million worldwide. Then there is his biggest film so far, which is also one of the MCU's best movies to date. 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home used the multiverse to put Holland, Tobey Maguire, and Andrew Garfield's versions of Peter Parker together onscreen. The MCU movie nearly broke the $2 billion mark.

Having now been released in China, which No Way Home was not, and with projections growing every day, Spider-Man: Brand New Day might have a real shot at becoming the highest-grossing Spider-Man movie ever, grossing over $2 billion. Spider-Man: Brand New Day's cast helps that, featuring Jon Bernthal's Punisher, Mark Ruffalo's Hulk, Sadie Sink's mysterious character, and plenty of surprises.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day marks the start of a new chapter for the MCU's Peter Parker, and it is one of major box office success. That is very different from what James Gunn's DCU experienced a month ago with the release of Milly Alcock's Supergirl. That movie ended up underperforming. Now, both superhero movies connect in an unsurprising way, but still, it cements a harsh DC truth.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Easily Swings By Supergirl's Entire Box Office Run

According to a new report from Deadline, Spider-Man: Brand New Day's domestic opening day, including the previews, is projected to land somewhere between $167 million and $173 million. As such, no matter where the new MCU movie finishes in that range, Spider-Man: Brand New Day will have passed Supergirl's entire box office run. To reiterate, the new movie from Marvel and Sony only needed one day at the domestic box office to earn more than DC's Supergirl racked up in its entire worldwide theatrical run. Supergirl flew out of theaters after grossing $125 million around the world.

DC's Supergirl movie carried a reported budget of $170 million, which means that it needed to finish between $340 million and $425 million to break even. By failing to even get near the lower end of that projection, Supergirl should lose DC Studios hundreds of millions. As for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which has a reported budget of $225 million, Deadline reports that it is projected to have a domestic opening weekend of over $330 million, with some sources believing that Spider-Man: Brand New Day could break Avengers: Endgame’s all-time domestic opening weekend record by going over the $357.1 million mark.

DC Needed To Have Built A Stronger DCU Foundation Before Supergirl

There are many factors to take into account as to why Spider-Man: Brand New Day's domestic opening day outgrossed Supergirl's entire box office run. The most important is the harsh truth that DC should not have moved forward with a Supergirl movie at this time. Kara Zor-El is simply untested at the box office, with her live-action movie appearances before the DCU having been the Helen Slater Supergirl solo movie, which finished at $14.3 million, and Sasha Calle's in the DCEU's The Flash, which grossed $271.4 million. Both of those movies stand as major box office bombs.

In the DCU, where iconic characters like Batman and Wonder Woman, who fans are campaigning to debut soon, still need to be established, pushing a Supergirl solo movie into motion will never generate the same kind of momentum. Superman was a solid first movie for the DCU, but even that film did less at the box office than Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. As such, the new DCU should have slowly built a strong foundation with its biggest characters before making bets like Supergirl. After all, it is hard to believe that Spider-Man: Brand New Day would have outgrossed a Batman movie's entire run on its domestic opening day.