{
  "id": 109715,
  "title": "\"Spider-Man: Brand New Day\" debuts with biggest domestic opening weekend ever",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/spider-man-brand-new-day-debuts-with-biggest-domestic-opening-weekend",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-04T00:35:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBS News",
    "slug": "cbs-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/video/spider-man-brand-new-day-debut-biggest-domestic-opening-weekend-ever/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Spider-Man: Brand New Day has made a significant impact at the box office with its domestic debut. According to CBS News, it has achieved the biggest opening weekend ever with $360 million in domestic ticket sales. However, other sources report slightly different figures. Euronews and Associated Press both state that it made $355 million in US and Canadian ticket sales.\n\nThe film, starring Tom Holland as Spider-Man and Zendaya as MJ, marks Holland's fourth outing as the web-slinging superhero. It depicts Peter Parker fighting crime in a world that has forgotten he is Spider-Man. According to Free Malaysia Today, Tom Rothman, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group, described the film as \"fundamentally a movie about friendship, about the balm of connection in all our lives\".\n\nThe film's success is notable, with Associated Press reporting that it had the highest domestic gross opening since the COVID-19 pandemic and is the second-highest of all time, behind Avengers: Endgame's $357 million in 2019. Free Malaysia Today also noted that data from Rentrak indicates it had the highest domestic gross opening since the COVID-19 pandemic.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 5,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Associated Press",
        "title": "‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ nets second best North American opening ever with $355 million",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/02/spider-man-brand-new-day-nets-second-best-north-american-opening-ever",
        "published": "2026-08-02T15:23:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Spider-Man soars to huge US$355 million opening in North America",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/spider-man-soars-to-huge-us-355-million-opening-in-north-america",
        "published": "2026-08-03T00:03:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Euronews",
        "title": "'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' scores second-biggest ever global opening weekend – nears $1bn worldwide",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/spider-man-brand-new-day-scores-second-biggest-ever-global-opening",
        "published": "2026-08-03T07:29:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Conversation AU",
        "title": "Spider-Man: Brand New Day is proof audiences just want to see heroes doing hero stuff",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/spider-man-brand-new-day-is-proof-audiences-just-want-to-see-heroes",
        "published": "2026-08-05T20:12:14.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}