Spider-Man: Brand New Day opening weekend surpasses Avengers: Endgame box-office record

Before Avengers: Endgame, no movie had opened over $300 million US domestically

Spider-Man: Brand New Day broke the Avengers: Endgame record for the biggest North American opening weekend with $360 million US in ticket sales from theatres in the U.S. and Canada, Sony Pictures said Monday.

Sony on Sunday projected that Spider-Man would net an estimated $355 million US in its first weekend playing in 4,487 theaters, just barely missing the 2019 Avengers: Endgame record of $357 million US. But the fourth Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland had a stronger than expected Sunday and ultimately came in ahead.

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Tom Rothman, the chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, said in a statement, "records are made to be broken, but we will take great pride in this one, for as long as we hold it."

Before Avengers: Endgame, no movie had opened over $300 million US domestically. The previous record holders were Avengers: Infinity War, which launched with $257 million US in 2018, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($247 million US in 2015). In December 2021, during the pandemic, the third Holland Spider-Man movie No Way Home earned a place on the list with a $260 million US debut on its way to $1.9 billion US globally.

The high-earning combination of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, which share actors Holland, Zendaya and Jon Bernthal, also propelled a record weekend overall for movie theatres in the U.S. and Canada.

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