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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Is About to Do Something Only One Other Movie Has Ever Done

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is on track to overtake Avengers: Endgame's domestic total in its fourth weekend, while Insidious: Out of the Further opens strong in second place.

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22 August 2026, 5:23 PM IST
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Is About to Do Something Only One Other Movie Has Ever Done

Four weekends in, and Sony's Spider-Man movie still refuses to slow down.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day, starring Tom Holland and Zendaya, is set to hold onto the No. 1 spot at the North American box office for a fourth straight weekend, projected to pull in somewhere between $35 million and $40 million domestically. That's a remarkably soft decline for a movie four weeks into release — most blockbusters see much steeper weekend-over-weekend drops by this point.

The bigger story sits in the film's overall trajectory. Its domestic running total by Sunday is expected to land at $845.4 million, putting it within striking distance of Avengers: Endgame's $858.3 million — which would push Brand New Day into second place on the all-time domestic chart, behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Worldwide, the film has already crossed $2 billion, a benchmark it reached faster than all but one movie in box office history.

Director Destin Daniel Cretton's film has been rewriting box office math since its opening weekend, when it set the record for the biggest domestic debut ever with $360 million — edging out the previous record held by Avengers: Endgame. It later became the fastest film ever to cross both $400 million and $800 million domestically.

Challenging Brand New Day for audience attention this weekend is Insidious: Out of the Further, the sixth entry in the long-running horror franchise from Blumhouse, Atomic Monster, and Stage 6 Films. The film opened Friday across roughly 3,300 North American theaters, with Sony projecting a domestic weekend somewhere between $23 million and $27 million — respectable, though short of the franchise's high-water mark. That record still belongs to 2013's Insidious: Chapter 2, which opened to $40.2 million.

Reviews for the new installment have been mixed but not unkind — Out of the Further currently sits around 58-60% on Rotten Tomatoes, an improvement over its immediate predecessor, 2023's Insidious: The Red Door, which landed at just 40%. The film brings back franchise veteran Lin Shaye and comes from Come Play director Jacob Chase.

Internationally, the horror sequel is tracking well too, with a global opening estimated between $49 million and $53 million across 64 territories — including reportedly the best horror movie opening day ever recorded in the Philippines.

Rounding out the weekend's new releases: Lionsgate's action-thriller Mutiny, starring Jason Statham as a wrongly accused former marine, and Black Bear's ensemble comedy Spa Weekend featuring Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann, Anna Faris, and Michelle Buteau. Neither is expected to make a significant dent in the weekend charts, with Mutiny tracking toward a modest $8-10 million opening.

For now, though, this remains very much Sony's weekend — and depending on how the next few days play out, potentially Sony's entire month.