Spider-Man: Brand New Day Expected To Pull Endgame Box Office Numbers
Spider-Man: Brand New Day On Track To Have The Second Biggest Opening In Movie History
All eyes were on Avengers: Doomsday during San Diego Comic-Con, but the MCU needs to make one more stop before we get there via Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The new Spidey flick releases in theaters this week, and projections have it pulling Avengers-level box office numbers in its opening weekend.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Could Make $800 Million This Weekend
According to Global Box Office, an account dedicated to tracking movie ticket sales and accurately projecting how much those movies will make based on those numbers, Brand New Day is on track to make $800 million. Not by the time it’s finished in theaters, just in its opening weekend.
If that number ends up being anywhere close to correct, then the upcoming Spidey movie will have the second biggest opening weekend in history. Only one film has ever done better, and that film was Avengers: Endgame. Endgame also remains the only movie to make more than $1 billion in a single weekend. That record will remain intact unless Brand New Day can really outdo itself and generate more than $1.2 billion this weekend.
The silver medal position is currently held by Avengers: Infinity War with $640 million. The ending to that blockbuster was so impactful that twice as many people felt compelled to go and see Endgame as soon as it hit theaters a year later. In third, there’s the last live-action Spider-Man movie, No Way Home. The tease of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield getting back into their Spidey suits to team with Tom Holland earned Marvel and Disney $600 million in one weekend.
Why The Hype For More Spider-Man Is Through The Roof
It seems that somehow, the excitement surrounding Brand New Day is even higher. There are likely a lot of reasons for that. The Doomsday hype will have certainly helped, with excitement for what the MCU has to offer higher right now than it has been at any other point since Endgame. The movie is also releasing at a time when most people are finally comfortable returning to theaters. No Way Home released in 2021 when many were still unwilling to be in close proximity to so many people in an enclosed space after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Above all else, even though this Spider-Man is part of the MCU, the hero continues to live on his own, very lucrative island. Spidey movies are almost separate from the MCU. Sure, they’re connected, but this quadrilogy of Holland movies has told its own story and can be enjoyed without having to go and see another Marvel movie. Even if interest in the MCU dips, the want for more Spider-Man persists.