NEW YORK — Spider-Man: Brand New Day continued its blistering pace in theatres, collecting US$144.5 million (S$184.9 million) domestically over its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday (Aug 9), while Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey set a new high for the director.
The Sony-Marvel release has accrued US$1.67 billion worldwide in just 10 days of release, putting it on a trajectory to be among the biggest blockbusters ever. Domestically, no movie has wracked up a higher total faster. In US and Canadian cinemas, Brand New Day has grossed US$655.1 million thus far. Overseas, it’s already surpassed US$1 billion.
It took only seven days for Brand New Day to become the highest grossing movie of the year, easily displacing Toy Story 5 (US$1.07 billion worldwide). No Sony film has ever cleared US$100 million in its second weekend before. It came close to toppling the best sophomore frame on record: The Force Awakens, with US$149.2 million in 2015.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey also crossed US$1 billion. In its fourth weekend, the Universal Pictures release added US$31.5 million domestically to bring its global total to US$1.1 billion.
Nolan’s Homeric epic is the director’s first movie to reach that threshold since 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises. It now ranks as Nolan’s biggest box-office hit ever, not accounting for inflation, eclipsing both The Dark Knight Rises (US$1.08 billion) and 2009’s The Dark Knight (US$1 billion). Nolan’s Oppenheimer (US$975 million) ended just shy of the milestone.
A big part of that success, of course, has been on Imax. With US$147.3 million domestically on the company’s large-format screens, The Odyssey now ranks as Imax’s highest grossing domestic release of all time.
The Odyssey still has one major market left. It opens in China on Friday.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey have helped drive Hollywood to its best box-office year since the pandemic. Ticket sales are running 18.5 per cent ahead of last year, according to Rentrak. There have already been five US$1 billion movies – more than any year since 2019. The other two were Michael and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Rentrak forecasts that the overall summer theatrical revenue will reach US$4 billion on Monday. That seasonal mark has long been a sign of thriving business for Hollywood. Since the pandemic, the only summer to surpass US$4 billion was 2023, when Barbie and Oppenheimer drove ticket sales.
According to Rentrak, summer revenue is just US$14.8 million shy of US$4 billion through Sunday.
A pair of comedies tried to provide some counterprogramming to the blockbusters but made little impact.
One Night Only, a Will Gluck-directed romantic comedy where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night a year, opened with US$5.7 million. The Universal release, starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, cost about US$25 million to make. Reviews weren’t good (46 per cent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) but audience scores (a “B+” CinemaScore) were better.
Coming in fourth was Fox Searchlight’s Super Troopers 3, the third in the long-running comedy series from the comedy troupe Broken Lizard. It debuted with US$4 million.
Two new limited releases packed theatres. A24’s Tony, starring Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain, grossed US$348,955, good for one of the best screen-average openings of the year: US$58,159 per theatre. Mubi’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, from I Saw the TV Glow filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun, debuted with a per-location average of US$50,300 across five screens.
Top 10 movies by domestic box office
With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at US and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak:
1. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, US$145 million.
2. The Odyssey, US$31.5 million.
3. One Night Only, US$5.7 million.
4. Super Troopers 3, US$4 million.
5. Toy Story 5, US$3.9 million.
6. Minions & Monsters, US$3.5 million.
7. Moana, US$2.8 million.
8. Ice Cream Man, US$2 million.
9. The Invite, US$717,568.
10. CatVideoFest 2026, US$568,414.
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