Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to lead the US box office for another week, marking its fourth consecutive week at the top. It does so with another strong $39 million in earnings, which represents a 44.8% drop from the previous week.
With these numbers, the film has now grossed $855 million in the United States alone. When adding international box office, the global tally stands at $2,219,901,026. This means it is already the sixth highest-grossing film in history.
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ is now just $45 million away from overtaking ‘Titanic’ and $50 million from surpassing ‘Ne Zha 2’. When that moment arrives—likely this week—the film starring Tom Holland and Zendaya will have become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time.
It will also likely position itself as the third-highest-grossing film ever, since ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ earned $2.334 billion. The top two spots are harder to reach, held by the original ‘Avatar’ with $2.923 billion and by ‘Avengers: Endgame’ with $2.799 billion.
Insidious: Out of the Beyond Recovers Its Modest Budget
Coincidentally, Spider-Man: Brand New Day faced competition this week from another Sony-distributed title. And after becoming Sony’s highest-grossing film ever, it wasn’t going to go easy.
We’re talking about ‘Insidious: Out of the Beyond’, the sixth entry in the horror saga, which opened with $25.3 million in second place at the US box office this weekend. The figures are solid, especially considering the film carried a modest budget of only $18 million, so profitability is already secured thanks to the $35 million added by the film in the international market, bringing its debut total to $60.3 million.
Nevertheless, critics and audiences’ reviews have not been very positive, so it remains to be seen how the summer box office evolves in the remaining days, as there aren’t many strong releases on the horizon in the coming weeks.
The Re-release of ‘Fast & Furious’ Surpasses $3 Million
The rest of the weekend’s box office is rather soft. Third place goes to ‘The Odyssey’ with $19.5 million in its sixth week. Christopher Nolan’s film has been, in a sense, eclipsed by Spider-Man’s blockbuster run, but it continues to register enormous numbers. $529 million domestic and $1.446 billion worldwide, placing it among the twentieth-highest grossing films in history.
In its second week, ‘The End of Oak Street’ confirms its underperformance, being eclipsed by ‘Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie’. The children’s film finished fourth with $9.1 million in its second week, compared with $9.0 million for the Warner release. Thus, the canine heroes have accumulated $35.4 million while the dinosaur adventure has reached $37.9 million. ‘The End of Oak Street’ has amassed $85.9 million worldwide, still far from profitability.
In second place of the week’s new releases, a sixth-place entry: the Jason Statham-starrer action film ‘The Riot’, a movie very much in line with the actor’s other projects, opens with $7.5 million. With a budget of $40 million, the film still needs to bow in international markets to gauge its performance, which so far is somewhat lukewarm.
After several weeks of previews, A24’s film ‘Tony’—a portrait of the late Anthony Bourdain—took its broader United States release this week, climbing to seventh place with $5 million in box office, bringing its total to $6.6 million when including previews. Not bad for an independent film still needing to reach many international markets and carrying a budget under $15 million.
The trend of re-releases on the big screen yielded strong numbers for The Fast and the Furious (A todo gas), as Universal re-released it in theaters to celebrate its 25th anniversary. With a respectable eighth place, the film surpassed $3.1 million. The original film grossed $144 million back then.
In ninth place another weekly release, the comedy Spa Weekend with Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, and Michelle Buteau. A product primarily aimed at women that doesn’t reach the car-racing re-release with $3.05 million in box office.
The final spot in the top 10 goes to Adolescence, Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which in its second week expands its release and lifts its box office to $1.93 million, for a total of $3.68 million and with most international markets still to come.
That’s the state of the US box office so far, with two weekends remaining to close the summer season and with few major blockbusters on the horizon.
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