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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Has Cleared $2 Billion, but It Might Hit $3 Billion

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day has pulled in $2.022 billion worldwide since opening July 31, making it the 8th film ever to clear $2 billion and the second-fastest to get there, behind only Avengers: Endgame.

Sadie Sink at the Netflix Fear Street Trilogy premiere at Los Angeles State Historic Park
Sadie Sink at the Netflix “Fear Street Trilogy” premiere held at Los Angeles State Historic Park on June 28, 2021. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer / WireImage via Getty Images.

At home it sits at $785.8 million, now 4th all-time in North America and ahead of Avatar. It hit $1 billion in 6 days and posted the biggest domestic opening on record at around $360 million.

Sadie Sink with long auburn hair and Prada triangle hair clips at the Fear Street Trilogy Netflix premiere in Los Angeles.
Sadie Sink at the Netflix premiere of “Fear Street Trilogy” at LA Historic Park on June 28, 2021, wearing Prada hair clips with her signature auburn waves. Photo by Chris Delmas / AFP via Getty Images.

No movie has ever reached $3 billion. Avatar holds the ceiling at roughly $2.92 billion, built up over years of re-releases. Getting there would take another $978 million from here, which means strong holds deep into the fall, continued international muscle, and help from China, where the film opened well.

The love is doing a lot of the work: 90% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, a 98% audience score, and word-of-mouth that has people going back. Tom Holland and Zendaya lead a cast that quietly folds in Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, and higher ticket prices plus strong IMAX numbers keep padding the total.

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Tom Holland poses for photographers at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre inauguration in Mumbai on April 1, 2023. Photo by Sujit Jaiswal / AFP via Getty Images.

Most analysts still land in the $2.2 to $2.4 billion range, so $3 billion would be an outlier, not the safe bet. Variety and other industry outlets are floating it anyway because the early numbers make it hard to rule out.

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Sadie Sink at the Netflix Fear Street Trilogy premiere at Los Angeles State Historic Park
Sadie Sink at the Netflix "Fear Street Trilogy" premiere held at Los Angeles State Historic Park on June 28, 2021. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer WireImage via Getty Images.
Sadie Sink with long auburn hair and Prada triangle hair clips at the Fear Street Trilogy Netflix premiere in Los Angeles.
Sadie Sink at the Netflix premiere of "Fear Street Trilogy" at LA Historic Park on June 28, 2021, wearing Prada hair clips with her signature auburn waves. Photo by Chris Delmas AFP via Getty Images.
Tom Holland posing for photos at the NMACC inauguration event in Mumbai
Tom Holland poses for photographers at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre inauguration in Mumbai on April 1, 2023. Photo by Sujit Jaiswal AFP via Getty Images.
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Sadie Sink in a white satin sleeveless gown with long red hair, standing in front of a Spider-Man: Brand New Day premiere banner.
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Florence Pugh, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Marisa Tomei standing together in front of a Spider-Man: Brand New Day UK Premiere backdrop.
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