Peter Parker has officially swung his way into the record books. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has surpassed Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing domestic release in box office history, ending a run the 2015 film had held for more than a decade.
The Force Awakens topped out at roughly $936.66 million domestically, a benchmark that stood untouched for over ten years. Tom Holland’s fourth solo outing as Spider-Man crossed that line after 47 days in theaters, landing at approximately $936.77 million and counting. The film’s official Instagram account marked the milestone directly: “Doesn’t get bigger than this. Thank you to the fans for helping #SpiderManBrandNewDay make cinematic history, it’s now the highest-grossing domestic release of ALL TIME at the North American box office.”
Whether the film can become the first movie ever to hit $1 billion domestically remains to be seen, though without a re-release, that milestone looks like a stretch at this point.
Top 10 Highest-Grossing Domestic Releases of All Time:
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day — $936,773,123 (2026, still in theaters)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens — $936,662,225 (2015)
- Avengers: Endgame — $858,373,000 (2019)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home — $814,811,535 (2021)
- Avatar — $785,221,649 (2009)
- Top Gun: Maverick — $721,996,984 (2022)
- Black Panther — $700,426,566 (2018)
- Avatar: The Way of Water — $688,459,501 (2022)
- Avengers: Infinity War — $678,815,482 (2018)
- Titanic — $674,276,105 (1997)
Globally, the numbers are just as staggering. Brand New Day has pulled in roughly $2.45 billion worldwide, making it the third highest-grossing film of all time, trailing only Avatar ($2.9 billion) and Avengers: Endgame ($2.7 billion), and landing ahead of Avatar: The Way of Water ($2.3 billion) and Titanic ($2.2 billion).
Records broken along the way:
The film’s run has been a nonstop demolition of the record books since its July 31 opening:
- Biggest Thursday preview haul of all time ($72 million), surpassing Avengers: Endgame
- Biggest domestic opening weekend of all time ($360 million)
- Biggest opening day (Friday) of all time ($169 million)
- Second-biggest global opening of all time ($932 million), trailing only Endgame
- Fastest film to reach $1 billion worldwide, hitting the mark in just six days, second only to Endgame
- Highest-grossing Hollywood film ever in India, overtaking the previous record held by Avatar: The Way of Water
- Fastest film to cross $400 million (4 days), $500 million (7 days), $600 million (9 days), $700 million (13 days), $800 million (19 days), and $900 million (36 days) domestically, the latter beating The Force Awakens‘s pace by two full weeks
- Six consecutive weekends at No. 1 domestically
- Tom Holland became the highest-grossing actor of all time, with a career gross of roughly $15.55 billion across 24 films, making him the youngest actor ever to top that list
- Contributed, alongside Holland’s other summer release The Odyssey, to making summer 2026 the biggest domestic box office season on record, at $4.76 billion
Directed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton, Brand New Day picks up after 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, which ended with the entire world forgetting Peter Parker ever existed. Anticipation was sky-high heading into release, driven partly by curiosity over Sadie Sink’s mystery role (revealed to be Jean Grey), but the film’s staying power ultimately came down to strong word of mouth, backed by a 90% critics’ score and an even higher audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film marks a badly needed win for Marvel, which endured a rocky 2025 at the box office with underperformers like Captain America: Brave New World and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The studio will look to build on that momentum with Avengers: Doomsday this December, which brings together a sprawling roster of heroes and reintroduces Robert Downey Jr. not as Iron Man, but as the villain Doctor Doom.
The milestone also underscores just how much of the record book belongs to one studio. With this win, four of the five highest-grossing domestic releases of all time are now Disney-affiliated titles, two Spider-Man films distributed with Sony, one Avengers film, and The Force Awakens itself, alongside the original Avatar, whose distribution rights Disney inherited through its acquisition of 20th Century Fox.