New Spider-Man film sees second-best global opening weekend ever

Spider-Man: Brand New Day brought in $927m (£687m) of global ticket sales to make it the second-biggest opening weekend ever as it shot past its estimated $225m production budget.

The film's strong performance gives a much-needed boost for Disney ahead of the highly-anticipated release of Avengers: Doomsday.

The superhero film starring Tom Holland and Zendaya earned an additional US$573 million outside North America, putting its worldwide total at US$928 million.

Gilbert Flores / Gilbert Flores, Getty Images Tom Holland’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day had the second-biggest domestic opening weekend ever. The Sony blockbuster hauled in an estimated $355 million across North America, falling just shy of the $357.1 million debut of Avengers: Endgame, which narrowly held onto the all-t

But the triumph of “Brand New Day” also comes on the heels of another major movie featuring Holland and Zendaya: Christopher Nolan’s“The Odyssey,” which slid to second place in its third weekend in theaters with $51 million.

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

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Nets Historic Opening Weekend  HuffPost

Tom Holland and his friends scored the highest-grossing debut in Sony's history and nearly swung past 2019's 'Avengers: Endgame' for the top domestic launch of all time.

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has made box office history in its first weekend, becoming the second biggest North American opening ever with $355 million in ticket sales

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has made box office history in its first weekend, becoming the second biggest North American opening ever with $355 million in ticket sales

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ nets second best North American opening ever with $355 million  AP News

With great power comes truly heroic ticket sales. Sony and Marvel’s comic book adventure “Brand New Day” obliterated box office expectations, collecting a jaw-dropping $355 million from 4,300 North American theaters. It’s the second-biggest debut in domestic box office history, following 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” with

The movie, the 11th big-budget Spider-Man movie since 2002, was on pace to have one of the biggest domestic first weekends ever.

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" opened in Korea on Wednesday to the kinds of crowds local theaters haven't seen in a long while, with multiplexes packed throughout the day and prime showtimes sold out well in advance. The Marvel sequel sold 688,381 tickets on Wednesday, according to the Korean Film Council's tracking servi

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" has some tracking services' Spidey senses tingling that the film could "easily" clear $300 million for its opening weekend.