Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaks North American box office record with $937 million

• Kotaku and IGN report a U.S. total of around $937 million, which would put the film ahead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
• Kotaku also says the movie has now passed $2.4 billion worldwide and calls it the fourth Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker.

What happened

The official Spider-Man Movie account posted on September 16, 2026, that Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now the highest domestic release of all time at the North American box office. In the post, the account thanked fans for reaching the milestone and described it as making “cinematic history.”

Kotaku ties that claim to a U.S. total of roughly $937 million. IGN gives a more precise figure of $936.773 million, which would put the film ahead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, reported there at around $936 million.

According to Kotaku, the film’s worldwide total is now above $2.4 billion. The outlet also describes Spider-Man: Brand New Day as the fourth film to feature Tom Holland as Peter Parker, and places the milestone about a month and two weeks after its theatrical release.

The wording differs by source: the tweet specifically refers to “the North American box office,” while the article headlines frame it as America’s highest-grossing release ever. In other words, the reporting is about a North American/domestic box office record, not a worldwide box office record.

Background

In this reporting, the term domestic refers to the North American box office. That makes the exact wording important, since the official account’s post and the article headlines describe the achievement slightly differently.

The provided sources place Spider-Man: Brand New Day alongside other major theatrical hits, including Avatar and Avengers: Endgame. Those comparisons are mainly for ranking context; the sources do not suggest those films are directly involved in the new record.

No independent box office database is cited in the provided material as the primary confirmation of the final total. Based on the sources here, this should be treated as a reported milestone, with a small difference between Kotaku’s rounded $937 million and IGN’s more precise $936.773 million.