Spider-Man: Brand New Day beats Avengers: Endgame box office record

Spider-Man beat the Avengers at the box office. Spider-Man: Brand New Day broke the Avengers: Endgame record for the biggest North American opening weekend with US$360 million (S$461.7 million) in ticket sales from theatres in the US and Canada, Sony Pictures said Monday (Aug 3).Sony on Sunday projected that Spider-Man would net an estimated US$355 million in its first weekend playing in 4,487 theatres, just barely missing the 2019 Avengers: Endgame record of US$357 million. But the fourth Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland had a stronger than expected Sunday and ultimately came in ahead.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 US$300 million domestically. The previous record holders were Avengers: Infinity War, which launched with US$257 million in 2018, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (US$247 million 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 US$260 million debut on its way to US$1.9 billion 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 US and Canada.According to Rentrak, the domestic box office overall is up over 15 per cent from last year with over US$6.2 billion in ticket sales to date.