New "Spider-Man" set box-office record for opening week
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The film starring Tom Holland surpassed $500 million in its first week, breaking the Avengers' record. The movie also became the highest-grossing film for an opening weekend in U.S. history.
"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" continues to set new records as the Tom Holland film continues its impressive run at the box office, UNN writes, citing The Hollywood Reporter.
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Sony Pictures announced Thursday that the film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton had achieved the highest first-week gross in the history of the U.S. box office. It surpassed $500 million in North America within its first seven days, becoming the fastest film to reach the half-billion-dollar mark, overtaking "Avengers: Endgame," which reached the milestone eight days after its premiere in April 2019.
"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" has been setting records at a dizzying pace, including the best Monday and Tuesday grosses in U.S. box-office history. "Brand New Day" became the second-fastest film to surpass $1 billion worldwide when Sony announced Tuesday morning that it had reached the milestone in six days, trailing only "Endgame."
Throughout the weekend, "Brand New Day" went head-to-head with "Endgame" for the title of the highest-grossing opening weekend in U.S. box-office history. On Monday morning, Sony confirmed that "Spider-Man" had indeed won and claimed the crown with $360 million, surpassing "Endgame's" $357.1 million opening weekend, although the latter's $1.2 billion global opening still holds the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend worldwide.
"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" also set records for the biggest Thursday previews and the highest Friday gross, while giving Sony its best opening weekend. The film, produced by Marvel Studios and Amy Pascal, has a production budget of $225 million.
Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal and Mark Ruffalo also star in the new film from Cretton, the director of "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." In it, the Marvel Comics hero exists alone without his loved ones before an unseen enemy tracks him down.
In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman noted that audiences' interest in Holland and Zendaya's stars appears not to be a fleeting trend.
"They are popular not because they are popular. They are popular because they are talented, and they deserve their popularity. They are wonderful, decent, sensible, respected people, and they work very hard. So they have earned every drop of their success."
Sony projects that "Brand New Day" will continue to attract audiences in the coming weeks as the end of summer approaches.
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