"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" swings into theaters as other superhero franchises stall

Just weeks after "Supergirl" underperformed at the box office, the ninth live-action Spider-Man film since 2002 is expected to premiere with a projected global opening of as much as $465 million. Marlow Stern, chief correspondent at Variety, joins CBS News to discuss.

Peter Parker’s isolation lands especially hard in the age of AI, a loneliness crisis, and endless scrolling.

With its grounded approach and mature storytelling, Spider-Man: Brand New Day shows that it’s still possible to put the right spin on the web-slinger without resorting to multiversal theatrics.

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The film is set to earn more than $35 million on its first day in China, with local analysts projecting a full-run total as massive as $250 million.

Are the ears playing tricks on us? Or does Tom Holland’s Peter Parker sound, at the beginning of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” like more of a native New Yorker than before?

Superhero fatigue is no match for Peter Parker. Sure, comic book movies have been on the fritz. But Marvel’s friendly neighborhood web-slinger is about to change the narrative, with Sony’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” swinging to a truly heroic box office debut. Estimates are ranging from $260 million to $280 million fr

Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate Just a few weeks ago, Tom Holland was telling us that his role as Telemachus in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey was his “last chance to play a boy”. Well, Holland is back as the suppos