Spider-Man: Brand New Day added $43 million at the North American box office on Friday from 4,487 theaters. [1] Variety posted the figure at 8:50 a.m. PT Saturday. [1] By Sunday the film is projected to reach $143 million for the weekend, about a 60 percent decline from its $360 million debut. [1] Those earnings would push the domestic haul to $653 million through weekend two. [1] A Friday receipt and a projection are Saturday facts. A Sunday actual is not.
Friday's paper already treated the opening as closed and the India club as the remaining argument. Saturday's U.S. file is the second-weekend open, not the India eight-day close, which sits on its own ledger. Trades already call the debate over. Box-office accounts will treat a 60 percent drop from a record as either collapse or still-a-hit. The Saturday-safe record is the till from Friday night.
On Wednesday the film overtook Toy Story 5 as 2026's worldwide leader. [1] Toy Story 5 had taken since June to reach $1.067 billion. Brand New Day reached $1.155 billion in seven days. [1] It crossed $1 billion in six, the second-fastest film to the mark behind Avengers: Endgame, which did $1.2 billion in three. [1] Those crossings are already in the trades. Saturday's news is the second Friday, not the Wednesday pass.
The Odyssey took second with $8.8 million on its fourth Friday. [1] Christopher Nolan's Greek epic is projected at $30.5 million for the weekend, a 40 percent drop, and about $460 million domestic through the weekend. [1] One Night Only opened to $2.8 million from 3,012 screens and is projected at $6 million. [1] Super Troopers 3 took $1.7 million from 2,760 theaters and is projected at about $3.9 million. [1] Toy Story 5 added $1.15 million in week eight, projected at $4.1 million, about $470.5 million domestic. [1] Ice Cream Man earned $1 million from 1,090 locations. [1] Those are neighboring chairs. They are not the $43 million.
Sixty percent off $360 million is still a $143 million weekend if the projection holds. [1] That is a hit by any ordinary measure and a comedown only against the opening the film itself set. Collapse language needs the Sunday print. Still-a-hit language also needs the Sunday print. Saturday has Friday.
The theater count matters for the drop math. 4,487 locations is still a wide hold, not a contraction. [1] A 60 percent decline from a record opening is the ordinary second weekend of a phenomenon, not a rejection. The projection already bakes in Saturday and Sunday. Treating the projection as a print is how a Friday estimate becomes a fake Sunday. Leave the actual for the actual.
A newspaper that covered only the drop would tell readers the phenomenon had broken. A newspaper that covered only the $43 million would tell readers nothing had changed. The completed Saturday record is a Friday receipt, a projected 60 percent decline, a $653 million domestic path through weekend two, and a worldwide total that already passed last summer's family picture. Write that. Leave Sunday for Sunday.
-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles