{"id":752885,"date":"2026-08-28T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752885\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:12:09","slug":"spider-man-brand-new-day-theater-count-tops-coyote-vs-acme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752885\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Brand New Day Theater Count Tops ‘Coyote vs. Acme’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tStop us if you\u2019ve heard this before: That Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a> movie? It\u2019s doing pretty darn well. Insanely well. Like $2.24 billion and counting worth of well. <\/p>\n

\n\tNow, going into its fifth weekend, the Sony-Marvel blockbuster is quietly showing another type of strength: Even with two new major films opening, exhibitors are keeping Brand New Day in more theaters than any other movie. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s close, mind you, but still: Brand New Day will be in 3,678 theaters, more than any other title, just barely dropping from last weekend\u2019s 4,006. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Looney Tunes legal comedy, Coyote vs. Acme is opening in slightly fewer theaters \u2014 3,575 \u2014 despite very strong reviews (95 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes; read The Hollywood Reporter\u2018s review<\/a>) and strong audience scores (92 percent). Coyote vs. Acme is tracking for a somewhat modest $14 million to $22 million domestic opening. While it might not prove to be a hit, its overall reception is certainly making the case that it was a movie worth releasing rather than shelving for a tax write-down, as Warner Bros. originally planned.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen there\u2019s Ridley Scott\u2019s post-apocalyptic thriller The Dog Stars opening right behind Coyote in 3,330 theaters (the film has largely negative reviews from critics \u2014 though THR<\/a>\u2018s review<\/a> was positive \u2014 with a domestic opening predicted around $9 million to $14 million).<\/p>\n

\n\tBut back to Brand New Day, which has been the gift that keeps on giving for Sony-Marvel and theater owners since its July 31 release. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe records have piled up: Biggest opening day ($169 million), biggest domestic opening weekend ($360 million), biggest Monday ever ($47 million), the fastest movie to hit $500 million (seven days), the second-biggest movie ever<\/a> domestically and, currently, the highest grossing movie of 2026. <\/p>\n

\n\tBrand New Day is expected to rack up yet another $22 million to $27 million domestically this weekend, which should put it past Titanic<\/a> on the list of the highest-grossing movies of all time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stop us if you\u2019ve heard this before: That Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie? It\u2019s doing pretty darn well.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,19799,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}