{"id":484732,"date":"2026-06-19T02:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/484732\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T02:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:58:18","slug":"spider-man-brand-new-day-is-already-setting-box-office-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/484732\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u2019 Is Already Setting Box Office Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there was any question about whether fans are excited about Spider-Man: Brand New Day or not, we can put that argument to bed. Tickets for Tom Holland\u2019s fourth Spidey solo film<\/a> went on sale Wednesday (along with a new trailer<\/a>) and sold more tickets in the United States in a single day than any film has in the past five years. The film that it could not beat? Spider-Man: No Way Home,<\/a> the last Tom Holland Spider-Man movie, five years ago.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> reported the news, which io9 confirmed with a Sony spokesperson, and while specific numbers were not provided, the implications are huge. The last five years have seen Avatar films, Jurassic films, Barbenheimer, and more. But also because, just a few weeks back, Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey set its own records for pre-sales<\/a> and crashed many websites in the process<\/a>. Since Spider-Man sold more tickets than The Odyssey in a single day, why didn\u2019t it also break the internet?<\/p>\n

Simple. The Odyssey crashed websites because most early ticket buyers were targeting specific premium format screenings, mainly 70mm IMAX. Those only exist in a handful of places, so traffic was much more focused on specific theaters and showtimes. Spider-Man: Brand New Day will also be available in premium formats, but there isn\u2019t a single, can\u2019t-miss, rarer version to catch. That allows ticket sales to be a little more spread out. People could buy their preferred theater and showtime with minimal hassle.<\/p>\n

And, of course, this is just one day. The movie doesn\u2019t open for another 40-plus days, so many more tickets will be sold before July 31. For Spider-Man: No Way Home, $78 million of tickets were eventually presold before opening weekend, leading to the second-highest domestic opening of all time, $261 million. The film that Brand New Day beat on Wednesday, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, ended up grossing about $178 million on its opening weekend. Will Spider-Man: Brand New Day beat that? Will it be the highest-grossing film of the summer? Time will tell.<\/p>\n

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens July 31. And, obviously, tickets are on sale now.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there was any question about whether fans are excited about Spider-Man: Brand New Day or not, we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69,35847,4634],"class_list":["post-484732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-spider-man","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}