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Published 00:23 24 Aug 2026 BST
Updated 07:10 24 Aug 2026 BST

The new Spider-Man film, Brand New Day, has now passed Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens to become the sixth highest-grossing release in cinema history.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, reached $2.22 billion worldwide after a fourth weekend at the top of the North American box office.
According to figures reported by The Hollywood Reporter and Variety's weekend box office report, Sony's Marvel blockbuster took a further $39 million domestically.
While The Force Awakens has dropped to seventh on $2.07 billion, ahead of the Tom Holland film sit Titanic in fifth on $2.26 billion and Ne Zha 2 in fourth on $2.27 billion, both now within touching distance.
A running total of $854.9 million through Sunday takes the film past 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home and into third on the all-time North American chart.
A week earlier it had already become Sony's biggest global release.
Spidey held off two newcomers, and the film directly behind it is a Sony release too.
Insidious: Out of the Further opened second with $25.3 million from 3,330 North American cinemas, taking the horror franchise past $800 million in total and landing a C+ CinemaScore, matching 2023's Insidious: The Red Door as the series' lowest grade.
Lionsgate's Jason Statham action-thriller Mutiny and Black Bear's comedy Spa Weekend placed much lower down the chart.
Insidious has a clear run, with no major studio horror release for the next four weeks.
For Sony, the question is how much higher Brand New Day can climb before autumn: a strong few weeks would put fourth place in reach, in a year that has already delivered a $1.35 billion haul for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.
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