SATURDAY AM: Spider-Man: Brand New Day continued to post an all-time record opening day/previews yesterday with $168M, feasibly outstripping the previous first day record owned by Avengers: Endgame ($157.4M). Still, there’s isn’t a unison out there that Brand New Day will take down Avengers: Endgame‘s all-time opening record of $357.1M. Some believe it boils down to Sunday where a $5M swing is possible. Sony is calling their 3-day weekend at $325M, but others think it’s closer to $350M+.
If Brand New Day gets above $105M today, then it has a better chance of beating Avengers: Endgame‘s start. Brand New Day came close to having a better pure Friday than Avengers: Endgame after you back out previews, $96M to $97.4M. Avengers: Endgame went on to do $109.2M on its Saturday which was +12% over its pure Friday. That Russo Brothers directed movie passed -17% on Sunday and the thinking is that Brand New Day
However, this winds up, of course, it’s the biggest ever domestic opening for Sony, stratospheres above Spider-Man: No Way Home’s $260.1M.
While we don’t have an official update on international, over in China, the Destin Daniel Cretton directed movie is easily No. 1 with over $71M since yesterday after a Wednesday open. There was a gap in the Tom Holland Spider-Mans in the Middle Kingdom. No Way Home wasn’t cleared to play, hence there wasn’t a legal way to watch the movie. The previous pic there in 2019, Far From Home, opened to a reported $95M (not accounting for currency swings and inflation).
FRIDAY MIDDAY UPDATE: Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day is heading for an all-time record opening day (including previews) between $167 million-$173 million. That easily would kick the first day/preview opening record of Avengers: Endgame ($157.4M) to the side, not to mention the U.S./Canada debut here is well ahead of Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s first Friday/previews of $121.96M. This is according to industry sources, not Sony right now.
Some would like to call an opening domestic record ahead of Avengers: Endgame‘s $357.1M, but we’re not there yet. Could be. But best estimate at this point in time is north of $330M at 4,487 theaters, which of course would make it the second-best opening at the North American box office ahead of No Way Home‘s $260.1M in 2021.
If by some chance a hurricane wipes out several theaters and Brand New Day falls back to $280M — c’mon, that’s an awesome opening, and $20M ahead of No Way Home‘s start. That said, I’m hearing the hourlies here for Brand New Day are pulling ahead of No Way Home‘s. It ain’t stopping.
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Back out the previews today and we’re at a $95M Friday. If Saturday holds flat with another $95M, Sunday would see a 16% decline for around $80M. That’s one path to a $342M start. If today minus previews is $100M (meaning a total $172M Friday/previews), then Spidey has the firepower to take out Avengers: Endgame.
Universal’s The Odyssey is doing fantastic against the competition with an expected $52M weekend, -42%, the best third frame for Nolan since The Dark Knight at $42.6M. This is after a third Friday that’s shaping up to be $15M at 3,861. This is going to get close to the four-century mark by Sunday with a running total of $396.5M.
The overall North American marketplace is looking like an all-time record too, beating the $402M made by all films during Avengers: Endgame‘s opening weekend (April 26-28, 2019). We’re hearing we could do $5M-$10M higher than that, so between $407M to $412M.
A lot more records will be broken, i.e., for PLF screens like Dolby, 4DX (which is seeing $4.5M opening weekend record after all-time high previews of $1.3M, ahead of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie‘s $1.2M), as well as ScreenX, which Brand New Day was shot for, which is looking at a record $4M after beating Deadpool & Wolverine‘s preview night of $1.3M in that format.
FRIDAY AM: We’re told that in the late-evening hours, walk-up business exploded for Sony’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day which now has a revised number of $72 million. It was so much money that Sony couldn’t count; a rare air for any studio. That’s quite the jump from what we previously heard, and it beats the former all-time $60M preview domestic record held by Disney/Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame. PostTrak exits were also high last night with 5 stars from general audiences, parents and kids under 12.
That figure, as we told you earlier, includes the Prime Video members early access Wednesday night screenings and showtimes that began Thursday at 12 noon. Avengers: Endgame made its preview cash post 6PM when it bowed on its Thursday back in 2019.
What this means is that Brand New Day is destined for a $100M+ first Friday including previews, a feat only five other movies have accomplished previously: Avengers: Endgame ($157.4M), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($121.96M), Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($119.1M), Avengers: Infinity War ($106.3M) and Star Wars: Last Jedi ($104.6M). Of these Infinity War had the lowest preview at $39M, where as the other four were well north of $45M.
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If you look around at some of the multiplexes in major markets, when it comes to the majority of showtimes, it’s essentially the Brand New Day and Odyssey show this weekend, which happens in a Darwinian ‘survival of the fittest’ theatrical marketplace. The AMC Lincoln Center in NYC is showing Brand New Day 36x today, AMC Century City in LA has 40 showtimes devoted to the pic, while Regal Sherman Oaks Galleria has 43 showtimes and the chain’s L.A. Live with a massive 44.
Yesterday with the arrival of Spidey, Universal’s The Odyssey saw its lowest grossing day so far (which is still a great weekday number for a second Thursday) with an estimated $10.2M, -25% from Wednesday, and running cume of $344.4M. The Odyssey triumphs with the best second week for Christopher Nolan, ahead of Dark Knight‘s second week which was $112.4M.
PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: When it comes to breaking box office records this weekend, look out, because Spider-Man: Brand New Day will do whatever a spider can, starting with tonight as the Sony, Marvel Studios and Amy Pascal production is outstripping the Thursday night previews of the 2021 previous chapter Spider-Man: No Way Home, which did$50M. All of this makes sense given the $80M advance ticket sales figure we heard about for the Tom Holland and Zendaya $225M net production.
No Way Home (which had previews begin at 3PM on its first Thursday) posted the third best previews ever behind 2019’s Avengers: Endgame‘s $60M (6PM start time) and 2015’s Star Wars: Force Awakens‘ $57M Thursday night. Now with more than $50M, Brand New Day stands as the third best U.S./Canada previews ever for a theatrical release, the best previews ever for a Sony movie, and the best previews post Covid. The Destin Daniel Cretton directed Spider-Man sequel began showtimes at 12 noon today, and its preview cash will include Wednesday night’s Prime Video member screening. Some sources were hearing that Brand New Day‘s preview money tonight was exceeding Avengers: Endgame. We’ll know by tom’w morning if it’s higher.
No Way Home‘s previews of $50M only repped 41% of its $121.96M first Friday. That resulted in the second best opening ever at the domestic box office with $260.1M behind Avengers: Endgame‘s all-time high of $357.1M. Force Awakens‘ $57M previews accounted for 48% of its first Friday which was $119.1M. At one point in time Force Awakens 3-day start of $247.96 held the all-time opening record in North America, but it eventually fell to fourth. NRG had a low domestic opening estimate of $195M for Brand New Day, but exhibitors and other tracking services such as Greenlight Analytics believe it’s significantly higher from $260M to even maybe $300M.
Some analysts begin to nerd out arguing that we need to take into account start time for the previews here on Brand New Day, and the time of year before making forecasts. Seriously, it doesn’t matter: this is a ton of money and the most we’ve seen in quite some time, putting away the previous post Covid preview record of $38.5M belonging to Deadpool & Wolverine two Julys ago.
And the other amazing thing about this Spider-Man is that he’s raking in all this cash without the help of Imax screens (which we saw Barbie do three years ago as Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer claimed them).
So far, Brand New Day has the best Rotten Tomatoes audience score out of the nine live-action Spider-Man movies with 98%. Critical score is strong at 90% certified fresh, which is just under the 93% of No Way Home.
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For those who keep blathering about “hugely inflated ticket prices” for THE ODYSSEY… At Lincoln Square in NYC, THE ODYSSEY in IMAX is $31.49, and ODYSSEY in 70mm is $23.49—the same price as a ticket to SPIDER-MAN (unless you see Spidey in 3D, in which case it’s $28.99). But you’ve got commenters here acting like THE ODYSSEY IMAX prices are $50 and everything else is $20.
Yeah, that’s always been the thing, they’re acting like The Odyssey is the only film that gets a bump from these tickets, like imax sits idles in between Nolan releases. Likely it is selling a higher ratio of the more expensive tickets, that probably true – and definitely when you compare it something like Obsession – but it’s not enough of difference to be able to say it means The Odyssey’s gross is invalid. It’s turning into a major hit, and the arguments against it are all out of steam. Opened well, held well, good weekdays, and holding fine. against Spider-Man now. Will it slow down as it starts losing imax, sure it will – but that’s not stopping it from hitting $500m or possibly even $600m
(And don’t bring up the ‘it’s just the same people watching it over and over again!’ argument – thats being massively exaggerated and besides, that’s the case of any massive hit, targeting the odyssey for this is beyond desperate)
Crazy that “opening day” now actually means Wednesday evening + Thursday & Friday lol if you think of it like that and then add inflation these numbers are on par with No Way Home opening
No guarantee, but there’s an actual shot that two films hit $400m on Monday – one on its 18th day, the other just on its 4th – that’d be a nice vote of confidence for this summer
Record breaking weekend WITHOUT IMAX. “The Odyssey” still has all the IMAX screens. This might make IMAX reconsider not playing “Avengers Doomsday” on IMAX screens in Dec.
Why? IMAX is selling out either way, better for them to maintain the strong relationships they have with directors like Nolan and Villeneuve. This is good for the industry, it’s showing that you can have one film flying high on imax while enough is breaking a record without any imax? That’s a good sign for this Christmas!
And also, let’s not forget Spidey is playing on plenty of premium screens still – imax isn’t the only player in the game here
Went to a 9am show… full theater. People clapped at the end. This movie is doing things to people.