‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Powers To Amazing Second-Best Global Opening At Box Office With $927M WW

This weekend, it’s a game of Marvel trying to beat Marvel at the weekend box office. Spider-Man: Brand New Day continued to post an all-time record opening day/previews yesterday with $168M, feasibly outstripping the previous first day record owned by Avengers: Endgame ($157.4M). Still, there’s isn’t a unison of opinion out there that Brand New Day will take down Avengers: Endgame‘s all-time opening record of $357.1M. Some believe it boils down to Sunday where a $5M swing is possible. Sony is calling their 3-day weekend at $325M, which is a wonderful second-best ever start in North America, but others think the opening here is closer to $350M+.

via: Deadline

Spider-Man: Brand New Day with a $927M global opening at 90,000 screens worldwide was the second best ever for the motion picture industry, behind Avengers: Endgame‘s reported $1.22 billion and ahead of 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War‘s reported $640.5M. Brand New Day on a global basis broke records as the best ever for the Spider-Man franchise (easily whipping Sony/Marvel Studios’ No Way Home‘s $600.5M, which was the third best global box office debut ever, now fourth), a record for Zendaya, Daniel Destin Cretton, and of course the best ever for Sony studios.

Of that global monster gross, international rang up $572M from 66 offshore markets and 73,500 screens.

Brand New Day set all-time opening records across the globe, including France ($26.6M), India ($31.8M, #1 for Hollywood picture), Brazil ($23.8M), Spain ($15.6M), Peru ($8.6M), Colombia ($6.8M), the United Arab Emirates ($6.8M), Saudi Arabia ($5.4M), Chile($5.0M), Turkey ($4.7M), Ecuador ($4.1M) and Belgium ($4.0M).

China led all international markets with $121.0M, and the United Kingdom launched with $49.0M (#3 all-time). Other notable markets include Mexico ($38.3M, #2 all-time). South Korea ($25.0M), Australia ($21.4M, #2 all-time), Germany ($20.0M), Italy ($18.2M), Argentina ($10.5M), Japan ($10.0M), the Philippines ($9.3M, #3 all-time), and the Netherlands ($4.7M, #3 all-time).

For those who might be whining why didn’t Brand New Day beat Avengers: Endgame, well, we didn’t have Russia in this opening suite (which bowed to a reported $15.4M back in the day there) since MPA titles (as opposed to U.S. movies backed by foreign sales) can’t play there. But also, China is a different ball game. Even though Brand New Day opened to No. 1 in the Middle Kingdom with $121M, the fate of Hollywood movies there have had slot machine results post Covid with some up and some down. Endgame opened to a reported $175.9M. Brand New Day’s $121M opening is remarkable for a Marvel movie in China, particularly for a franchise which didn’t have its previous sequel, No Way Home, release in theaters there.

With Brand New Day, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s grosses grows to $33.3 billion from 38 movies.

4DX/ScreenX PLFs delivered a record $31M start in its formats around the world for Brand New Day from 1,111 screens, broken out that’s $14.4M in ScreenX and $17M in 4DX. ScreenX in the states shattered all previous opening records with $7M, 2.6x more than the previous biggest opener in the format, Super Mario Galaxy with $2.7M. Stateside 4DX did $5.2M. ScreenX overseas did $7.5M, while 4DX delivered $11.7M.

Spidey didn’t have Imax in the states and other parts of the world where Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey claimed them, but he had them in Korea, Japan and China where that Universal title hasn’t opened yet. The combined Imax for Brand New Day in China, Japan and South Koreas was $23M. In China, the record-breaking result was $19M, 16% of the pic’s opening in the territory, making it the highest-grossing Imax opening weekend in the Spider-Man franchise for the territory. Imax delivered $2.4M for Brand New Day in South Korea, the biggest opening for the large format exhibitor in the market, repping 9% of the sequel’s overall weekend there. On a shared schedule, Japan added an additional $2.2M in Imax box office, accounting for 18% of the movie’s total market debut.