Update: It’s a record! When the actual box office numbers came in on Monday, it turned out Spider-Man: Brand New Day had set a new opening weekend record. Its whopping $360 million debut beat Avengers: Endgame’s previous record of $357.1 million.
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1. Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Weekend gross: $355M Total domestic gross: $355M Last weekend: New release Percent drop: NA
Well, that escalated quickly. Spider-Man: Brand New Day went from tracking in the high-$100M range to the low- to mid-$200M range to becoming only the second film to ever crack $300 million over its opening weekend — and come within $2 million of snagging the title of biggest opening weekend from Avengers: Endgame.
As Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the best live-action Spider-Man movie since Spider-Man 2, stormed into theaters starting with Thursday previews, it quickly became clear that the combo of wildly enthusiastic reviews and the reality that Spider-Man remains one of the safest bets we still have in the box office world, were shooting Tom Holland’s fourth standalone Spidey film to wild heights.
I’ve long assumed that two domestic box office records were safe: Endgame’s $357.1 million opening weekend and Star Wars: The Force Awakens’s $936.7 million total. Both of those records were the results of such specific factors — pent-up demand, the conclusion or start of a new saga, where holidays fell in relation to their release dates — I wasn’t sure any film had a shot at toppling them.
Writing this edition of The Box Office Report before we get final numbers on Monday, I’m not even sure that Brand New Day didn’t topple the opening day record. If I’m Sony and the numbers for this film are on the fence in terms of beating Endgame, I play it safe and don’t declare victory with estimated Sunday totals only to be faced with the reality that Brand New Day fell short on Monday. Deadline reports that some studios believe that Spider-Man: Brand New Day will actually settle between $358 million and $360 million.
A very awkward consequence of Brand New Day’s estimated $355 million opening weekend is that director Destin Daniel Cretton has joined (and possibly surprised) Endgame directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo as the only folks to helm a movie that opened above $300 million ... and while Marvel handed the keys to Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars to the Russo brothers, the studio has yet to greenlight a sequel to Cretton’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings andit just canceled the second season of his Wonder Man Disney+ series.
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2. The Odyssey
Weekend gross: $51M Total domestic gross: $395.5M Last weekend: 1st Percent drop: 43
After two weekends of making its own box office history as the No. 1 movie in North America, The Odyssey slipped to No. 2 this weekend. Not only does Christopher Nolan’s latest film now sit at No. 3 on the 2026 domestic chart, passing Project Hail Mary ($344.1 million) and Michael ($373.3 million), The Odyssey is easily closing in on the $400 million mark.
The Odyssey is already Nolan’s biggest non-Batman film in North America, and it has a very good shot at passing The Dark Knight Rises ($448.1 million) before facing the daunting task of outgrossing The Dark Knight at $536.6 million.
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Weekend gross: $6.3M Total domestic gross: $461.7M Last weekend: 4th Percent drop: 38
You’ll notice that Toy Story 5 and Minions & Monsters both shifted up a place from last weekend. The animated duo were able to pull off this task thanks to decent weekend-to-weekend drops — in Toy Story 5’s case, only 38 percent — while the live-action Moana remake lost 50 percent of its business from last weekend and fell to No. 5.
Does Toy Story 5 have the box office juice to catch up to Finding Dory’s $486.3 million and claim the No. 3 spot on Pixar’s all-time domestic box office chart?
4. Minions & Monsters
Weekend gross: $5.8M Total domestic gross: $168.4M Last weekend: 5th Percent drop: 41
It still looks like Minions & Monsters is going to stall out before hitting the $200 million mark, which would make it the first Despicable Me/Minions film to fail to do so in North America.
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Weekend gross: $5.3M Total domestic gross: $114.8M Last weekend: 2nd Percent drop: 50
Let’s pretend there were creative reasons to have released a live-action Moana remake. That there was artistic value to Dwayne Johnson slipping on that wig that somehow made him look balder than he already is. Even if that was the case, Disney sent this film to die by releasing it between Toy Story 5 and Spider-Man: Brand New Day. That was such a small window for the redo to make money, and after it absolutely bombed its opening weekend, it was over for sure.
Box office numbers via The Numbers and Box Office Mojo based on Sunday estimates.
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