Spider-Man: Brand New Day Overtakes Avengers: Endgame to Become the Second-Biggest Movie Ever at the US Box Office

Spider-Man has done it again.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has officially overtaken Avengers: Endgame at the North American box office, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of all time domestically.

The Tom Holland-led blockbuster has now surpassed the $858.3 million Endgame earned during its original and subsequent theatrical runs.

That leaves just one movie above it.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens remains the domestic box-office champion with approximately $936.6 million — a record it has held since 2015.

Considering the speed at which Brand New Day has been accumulating money, however, suddenly even that once seemingly untouchable figure doesn't look quite so safe.

Passing Avengers: Endgame is only the latest milestone in what has become an extraordinary theatrical run.

Released at the end of July, Spider-Man: Brand New Day exploded out of the gate with a domestic opening weekend of around $360 million.

It then became one of the fastest films in history to reach $1 billion worldwide before racing beyond $2 billion globally in just a matter of weeks.

The movie has also surpassed Spider-Man: No Way Home to become Sony Pictures' biggest worldwide release.

Perhaps even more impressively, the momentum hasn't disappeared after opening weekend.

While enormous superhero movies are usually heavily front-loaded, audiences have continued turning up for Brand New Day. The film has held the top spot at the North American box office through its first four weekends and has also remained number one in the UK and Ireland.

This isn't simply a huge opening weekend anymore.

It's a genuine box-office phenomenon.

For Tom Holland, the achievement marks another remarkable chapter in a Spider-Man journey that began a decade ago.

Holland first appeared as Peter Parker in Captain America: Civil War in 2016 before getting his first solo outing with Spider-Man: Homecoming the following year.

Far From Home followed in 2019 before No Way Home became a global event in 2021, bringing together characters from multiple generations of Spider-Man movies.

There was always going to be enormous pressure on whatever came next.

Rather than simply attempting to repeat No Way Home, however, Brand New Day takes Peter Parker into a very different stage of his life following the events of that movie.

The world no longer remembers Peter Parker.

Operating alone as Spider-Man, Peter has effectively lost the life he once knew, allowing Brand New Day to rebuild the character while still delivering the enormous Marvel spectacle audiences expect.

And audiences have clearly responded.

For the last few years, Hollywood has repeatedly asked whether audiences are becoming tired of superhero movies.

There have certainly been signs that simply putting a Marvel or DC character on a cinema poster is no longer enough to guarantee a billion-dollar hit.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day complicates that argument rather spectacularly.

A movie doesn't reach more than $2 billion worldwide because audiences are reluctantly turning up out of habit.

It happens because people want to see it.

Spider-Man has always occupied a slightly different position from most comic-book characters. Across Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland's different eras, Peter Parker has remained one of cinema's most enduring superheroes.

More than two decades after Sam Raimi's Spider-Man helped redefine the modern comic-book blockbuster, audiences are still lining up to watch the character swing across the big screen.

The superhero genre might be changing.

Spider-Man clearly isn't going anywhere.

This is now the fascinating question.

For more than a decade, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has sat comfortably at the top of the North American box-office chart with approximately $936.6 million.

Brand New Day still has a considerable gap to close.

But it is also still playing in cinemas.

Passing Avengers: Endgame means Spider-Man has already climbed higher domestically than almost every blockbuster ever released, including Avatar, Black Panther, Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water.

There is only one mountain left.

Whether Peter Parker can actually reach the summit remains to be seen, but the fact that we're even asking the question tells you everything about the extraordinary run Spider-Man: Brand New Day is having.

For now, Star Wars still rules the domestic box office.

But Spider-Man is swinging closer.