Spider-Man: Brand New Day heads for fourth box office win, and to pass no way home

Brand New Day closes in on the all-time domestic top three

Brand New Day took $9.8m on Friday, enough to stay ahead of two newcomers, the horror sequel Insidious: Out of the Further and the Jason Statham-led Mutiny.

That weekend haul would take the film’s domestic total to $852.4m, moving it past 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and making it the third highest-grossing release ever in North America.

It is already Sony’s biggest domestic film and set the studio’s global record last weekend, capping a record-breaking box office run.

Sony’s releases are on track to take the top two spots.

Out of the Further, the sixth Insidious film, actually led on Friday with $10.6m including Thursday previews, Variety reported, but Sony projects a $23.7m opening across the weekend.

That is well short of 2023’s Insidious: The Red Door, which opened to $33m and finished on $189m worldwide, and the new film matched The Red Door’s C+ CinemaScore, the series’ lowest.

Made for $18m by Screen Gems, Stage 6 Films and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, it holds a 60 per cent critics’ score and a 70 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

At that budget it should still turn a comfortable profit.

Final weekend estimates land on Sunday. For Spider-Man, the only question left is how high the domestic record climbs before the run slows, in a year that has already delivered several other box office milestones.