Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits $2B in three weeks, the 8th ever
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” crossed $2 billion at the worldwide box office in three weekends, making it the eighth film in history to reach that mark. Box Office Mojo lists its worldwide lifetime gross at $2,021,831,670.
Most of that money came from outside North America. Euronews puts the split at $785 million domestic and $1.23 billion overseas, on a worldwide total of $2.022 billion. TheWrap reports the film opened to $360 million domestically and $927 million globally, then added $70 million in its third domestic weekend.
Speed is what makes this run unusual. Only “Avengers: Endgame” reached $2 billion faster, in 11 days, and Forbes places “Brand New Day” second on that list at roughly three weeks. That pushes “Avatar: The Way of Water” down a place, because Business Insider reports it needed 39 days.
| Film | Worldwide gross | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Avatar | $2,923,710,708 | 2009 |
| Avengers: Endgame | $2,799,439,100 | 2019 |
| Avatar: The Way of Water | $2,334,484,620 | 2022 |
| Ne Zha 2 | $2,270,700,370 | 2025 |
| Titanic | $2,264,812,968 | 1997 |
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens | $2,071,310,218 | 2015 |
| Avengers: Infinity War | $2,052,415,039 | 2018 |
| Spider-Man: Brand New Day | $2,021,831,670 | 2026 |
The club stays small because hardly anything gets in. Business Insider counts 64 films that have ever passed $1 billion, and says only seven titles released by US studios have passed $2 billion. Those two counts don’t conflict. The name on Box Office Mojo’s chart that Business Insider’s framing leaves out is “Ne Zha 2”, at $2,270,700,370.
Re-releases complicate the older end of the list. Business Insider reports that “Jurassic Park” and “The Phantom Menace” only cleared $1 billion after 3D re-releases years later, and that “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” got there 19 years after its 2001 debut, helped by a China re-release that took $13.6 million in three days. So the chart measures decades of ticket sales rather than one theatrical run. Cumulative scoreboards flatter whoever’s been counted longest, which is the same reason saturating benchmark tables and tightly bunched model leaderboards are awkward to read year over year.
There are even whispers starting whether “Dark Knight” can beat the incredible worldwide numbers posted by the all-time $1.8 billion benchmark of “Titanic.”
Deadline in 2008, quoted by Business Insider
That was the ceiling 18 years ago. “Titanic” now sits fifth on Box Office Mojo’s chart at $2,264,812,968, with four films above it. Business Insider also notes how lopsided the $1 billion list has become by studio, with Marvel appearing on it 10 times against DC’s four.
Domestically the picture is tighter. Forbes reports that only three films have grossed more over their entire North American runs: “The Force Awakens” at $936.7 million in 2015, “Endgame” at $858.3 million in 2019, and “No Way Home” at $814.9 million in 2021. “Brand New Day” stands at $785.8 million after three weekends. TheWrap has it tracking 5.6% ahead of the “Force Awakens” pace and projects a final domestic figure near $960 million.
The next two names on the worldwide chart are what’s worth watching. “Avengers: Infinity War” sits at $2,052,415,039 and “The Force Awakens” at $2,071,310,218, so about $31 million separates “Brand New Day” from seventh place by our arithmetic. It’s already past “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, which Box Office Mojo lists at $1,921,426,073.
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