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Published 00:23 24 Aug 2026 BST
Updated 19:47 23 Aug 2026 BST

Brand New Day has passed Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens to become the sixth highest-grossing release in cinema history, reaching $2.22 billion worldwide after a fourth weekend at the top of the North American box office. Sony's Marvel blockbuster took a further $39 million domestically, according to figures reported by The Hollywood Reporter and Variety's weekend box office report.
The Force Awakens drops 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. Domestically the picture is just as striking: a running total of $854.9 million through Sunday takes it past 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home and into third on the all-time North American chart. It had already become Sony's biggest global release a week earlier.
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.
With no major studio horror release for the next four weeks, Insidious has a clear run. 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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