Spider-Man Brand New Day Box Office Smashes Records, Supergirl Sinks
Tom Holland’s web-slinger just posted the biggest 10-day domestic run in history while Warner Bros. keeps dodging questions about its summer flop.
Spider-Man Brand New Day box office numbers keep rewriting the record books. For the weekend ending August 9, 2026, the Sony and Marvel Studios blockbuster earned an estimated $145 million in its second frame, the third-best second weekend in domestic history. That pushed its North American total to roughly $655 million, the highest 10-day domestic haul ever recorded. Worldwide, the film sits at about $1.67 billion after just two weekends. Meanwhile, across town at Warner Bros., executives spent the week talking about everything except Supergirl, the studio’s $170 million misfire that has fans and analysts questioning where James Gunn’s DC Universe goes from here. Here is the full breakdown of the winners, the losers, and what to expect at Mohawk Valley theaters this coming weekend.
The Weekend’s Winners and Losers
The top of the chart was a two-movie race, and it was not close. Based on Sunday studio estimates:
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Sony/Marvel): $145 million, down 59 percent, $655 million domestic total
- The Odyssey (Universal): $31.5 million in its fourth weekend, $461.1 million domestic total
- One Night Only (Universal): $5.7 million debut from 3,012 theaters
- Super Troopers 3 (Searchlight): $4 million debut from 2,760 theaters
- Toy Story 5 (Disney/Pixar): $3.9 million in week eight, $470.3 million domestic
- Minions & Monsters (Universal): $3.5 million, $176.4 million domestic
- Moana (Disney): $2.8 million, $121.4 million domestic
- Ice Cream Man (Iconic Events): $2 million debut
One note for readers: these are studio estimates reported Sunday. Final actual numbers arrive Monday and can shift slightly.
The Odyssey Keeps Rowing
Christopher Nolan’s nearly three-hour adaptation of Homer’s epic crossed $1 billion worldwide on Friday, making it Nolan’s third billion-dollar film. It also became the highest-grossing IMAX release of all time, passing the lifetime IMAX haul of the original Avatar with $271 million on those premium screens. And the movie has not even opened in China yet. That happens next week. Universal’s distribution chief Jim Orr credited his director’s track record, saying Nolan has “earned audiences’ trust by consistently delivering must-see theatrical events.”
The New Releases Struggled
The three newcomers all landed with a thud. One Night Only, the Will Gluck romantic comedy starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, opened to $5.7 million. That matches the start of Gluck’s 2023 sleeper hit Anyone But You, which legged out to $88.3 million domestic, so Universal will hope word of mouth does similar work here. The B+ CinemaScore gives it a fighting chance even with a rotten 53 percent critics’ score.
Super Troopers 3 had no such silver lining. Its $4 million opening is less than a third of the $15.1 million that Super Troopers 2 pulled in 2018. Eli Roth’s unrated horror film Ice Cream Man scraped together $2 million. When two juggernauts are eating 70 percent of the market, counterprogramming needs to be sharper than this.
Spider-Man Brand New Day Box Office Records and Its Ultimate Potential
Let’s put the Spider-Man Brand New Day box office run in context, because we may never see anything like it again. The film opened last weekend to $355 million domestically, the biggest opening of all time, beating the first frame of Avengers: Endgame. It crossed $1 billion worldwide in six days, the second-fastest ever behind Endgame. By Wednesday, just seven days into release, it had passed Toy Story 5 to become the highest-grossing film of 2026. Its international total alone hit $1 billion this weekend, again second-fastest in history behind only Endgame.
The $145 million second weekend trails only Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($149.2 million) and Endgame ($147.3 million) among sophomore frames. A 59 percent drop sounds steep, but every mega-opener falls hard in week two. Endgame dropped about the same amount.
So how high can it go? The film should become just the eighth movie in history to cross $2 billion globally by next weekend. The real conversation among box office watchers is bigger than that. The Force Awakens holds the all-time domestic record at $936.6 million. Brand New Day is pacing so far ahead of that film that analysts are openly asking whether it becomes the first movie ever to reach $1 billion at the domestic box office. Globally, some are even floating $3 billion, a number no film has touched. The original Avatar sits at $2.9 billion after multiple re-releases.
Director Destin Daniel Cretton’s film, starring Tom Holland and Zendaya, has also lifted the whole industry. Last weekend’s overall chart set a record at roughly $435 million combined, and the summer 2026 box office was expected to cross $4 billion on Monday. For local theaters here in the Mohawk Valley, that traffic matters. Concession sales and packed weekend showtimes are what keep regional screens open the rest of the year.
Supergirl’s Collapse Puts Warner Bros. and James Gunn on Defense
Now for the other side of the superhero ledger. While Sony celebrates, Warner Bros. is managing the fallout from Supergirl, and the contrast could not be more brutal.
The numbers tell the story. Craig Gillespie’s film, starring Milly Alcock and adapted from Tom King’s celebrated Woman of Tomorrow comic, opened in June to $37.1 million domestically. That was far below projections that had once reached the $50 million range, and it even came in under the $37.6 million start of Joker: Folie a Deux, one of the most infamous flops in recent memory. The second weekend brought a 74 percent collapse to $9.6 million, a steeper fall than The Flash or Morbius ever suffered. As of last week, the film had grossed about $125.9 million worldwide against a reported production budget of around $170 million, plus a marketing campaign said to top $100 million. Variety reported the studio stands to lose $100 to $120 million. The movie also set the record for the worst fourth weekend of any DCEU or DCU release. It hit digital rental platforms after just 32 days, a quick retreat that contradicted Gunn’s earlier public statements that DC films would not rush to streaming.
Then there are the responses, or the lack of them. James Gunn, famously the most online studio boss in Hollywood, has not directly addressed Supergirl’s box office performance, a silence fans have noticed given how quickly he answers nearly everything else. DC Studios co-chief Peter Safran acknowledged the disappointing result in comments to The New York Times while signaling confidence in the larger plan. And on Wednesday’s earnings call, Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav declined to address Supergirl directly at all. Instead, he pivoted to next year’s Superman sequel, praising Gunn’s work ethic: “He’s working 16, 18 hours a day. It looks fantastic.”
Critics of the studio call this excuse-making, and it is fair to say the messaging has leaned hard on the future. To be fair to DC, one flop is not a death sentence. Superman was 2025’s highest-grossing comic book movie, and the upcoming slate includes Lanterns on HBO, the low-budget horror film Clayface in October, and Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow. But the pressure is real, and it is compounded by the pending Warner Bros. and Paramount merger. Gunn and Safran’s contracts reportedly expire at the end of 2026 or 2027. If the next few projects stumble, new corporate owners may not feel bound to the current 10-year plan.
What to Expect Next Weekend at the Box Office
Spider-Man: Brand New Day will three-peat at number one. The only question is the size of the drop, and whether it stays above $80 million. The Odyssey finally gets its China release, which could supercharge its global total.
The new wide releases arriving Friday, August 14 include The End of Oak Street, a mystery thriller from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie for families, the Cold War drama The Brink of War with Jeff Daniels and J.K. Simmons, and the filmed stage production Six: The Musical Live! None of them is expected to challenge Spidey, but Oak Street is the wild card with genuine buzz behind it.
The bigger story this month is whether Brand New Day can hold well enough to make that $1 billion domestic conversation serious by Labor Day. History says no film gets there. This film keeps making history anyway.
Catch a showtime at your local Mohawk Valley theater this week, then tell us what you saw. Did Spider-Man live up to the hype for you, and do you still trust the DCU’s plan? Sound off in the comments or write to us at the Utica Phoenix.
Sourcing transparency note: Box office figures in this article are drawn from studio estimates and reporting published August 8 through 10, 2026 by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, TheWrap, and Forbes. Supergirl financial figures (budget, losses, and worldwide gross) come from reporting by ComicBook.com, The Direct, Variety, and Tom’s Guide. David Zaslav’s earnings call remarks were reported by ComicBook.com via TheWrap. Peter Safran’s comments were made to The New York Times as reported by The Direct; the full quote was not independently reviewed and is paraphrased. Independently verified: weekend chart figures, Spider-Man records, Supergirl opening and second weekend figures, PVOD timing. Not independently verified and therefore excluded: rumors about specific DCU project cancellations, unconfirmed break-even estimates beyond the $450 million figure attributed to analyst estimates, and any claims about Gunn’s private reaction.
Pre-publish live data flags: (1) Weekend figures are Sunday estimates; confirm Monday actuals before publishing. (2) Supergirl worldwide total ($125.9M) was “as of” August 6 and may have ticked up. (3) Summer box office crossing $4 billion was projected for Monday, August 10; confirm before stating as fact. (4) Spider-Man worldwide opening figures varied slightly between outlets ($927M to $932M); this draft avoids citing a single number.
