Spider-Man: Brand New Day remained the box-office leader in its fourth week, taking in an estimated $39 million from 4,006 theatres in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates released Sunday. The film has now earned more than $854.9 million domestically and is on track to surpass Avengers: Endgame as the second-highest grossing release in North American history.
Summer surge and rival performances
The weekend showed the continuing strength of theatrical releases, with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey further solidifying its place among the year’s top earners. The film recently became Nolan’s highest-grossing title both in North America and internationally and earlier this week overtook Deadpool & Wolverine to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever.
Sony also registered another success: the studio claimed the weekend’s second-biggest film with the horror franchise entry Insidious: Out of the Further. Several other newcomers entered the charts but landed further down the list, including the Jason Statham action picture Mutiny, which opened in sixth place with an estimated $7.5 million from 2,703 locations.
| Film | Weekend gross (est.) | Theatres |
|---|---|---|
| Spider-Man: Brand New Day | $39,000,000 | 4,006 |
| Insidious: Out of the Further | — | — |
| The Odyssey | — | — |
| Mutiny | $7,500,000 | 2,703 |
Industry context and audience trends
Analysts say the mix of tentpoles, genre films and franchise entries has made this summer unusually robust. The season through Labour Day has now produced an estimated $4.4 billion in North American ticket sales, putting it among the four highest-grossing summers on record.
“We’re in the home stretch of what I think will go down in box office history as maybe one of the most key and pivotal summer movie seasons ever,”
said Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends for Rentrak, highlighting how difficult it would be to replicate the current box-office momentum.
Michael O’Leary, president and CEO of the theatre trade organisation Cinema United, pointed to the wide selection of films available to audiences as a factor in the industry’s rebound. Exhibition executives have been watching whether a steady flow of appealing releases will keep cinemas busy into the fall.
Headwinds for some new releases
Not every new title enjoyed smooth sailing. Mutiny faced an unusual glitch when it was briefly available for free on Prime Video for a few hours in the days before its intended theatrical launch; the streaming error was promptly corrected. The Lionsgate release also opened to mixed critical response. PostTrak data cited by distributors indicated women made up roughly 84 per cent of the film’s opening-weekend audience, an unusually high gender skew for a broad action release.
While Spider-Man continues to dominate the charts and The Odyssey cements Nolan’s year in the multiplex, studios and theatres alike are watching whether strong late-summer holdovers and a slate of forthcoming releases can extend what many observers call an exceptional season.
- $39 million — estimated Spider-Man weekend gross (US & Canada)
- $854.9 million+ — Spider-Man’s current North American total
- $4.4 billion — estimated North American summer season total to date
