Keeping score? 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' nudges Tom Holland over a historic box-office marker

Not exactly shocking news, but Spider-Man: Brand New Day is still holding tight at the top of the box office. Over the weekend it managed to shrug off newcomers like Coyote vs. Acme and The Dog Stars, as if Peter Parker was just swatting away a few mid-tier baddies before lunch. The film is now sitting at a rather absurd $2.257 billion globally, which bumps it up to the sixth biggest moneymaker in cinema history—and honestly, it could easily sneak into the top five if it keeps this up.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has earned $2.257 billion worldwide, making it the sixth highest-grossing film ever.

Tom Holland’s New Club

This is more than just a boost for Marvel—it’s another notch on the belt for Tom Holland. According to Discussing Film, with this latest round as Spider-Man, Holland has leapfrogged almost everyone to become the third highest-grossing actor of all time. Only Scarlett Johansson and Zoe Saldaña are ahead of him, and that means Holland also snags the distinction of being the top-grossing male actor ever, which, let’s be honest, is a fact the internet will never let Chris Pratt forget. Pratt’s hanging on in fourth, after being nudged down by Holland’s recent web-slinging earnings.

Holland is only 30 years old—the youngest in the current top 10. So, not only is his Marvel credit list overflowing, he’s outpacing actors who’ve been around twice as long. If “Brand New Day” gets a sequel—and try to find anyone in Hollywood betting against that—he could easily jump to the number-two spot, if not the actual top before long.

The Numbers Game

Here’s how the top 10 highest-grossing actors look, as things stand in 2026:

• Zoe Saldaña — $15.470 billion (leading the charge, helped by Avatar and Marvel, obviously)
• Scarlett Johansson
• Tom Holland
• Chris Pratt
• Robert Downey Jr. ($14.315 billion and set to star in Avengers: Doomsday this December—so keep an eye on that number; he could be gunning for number one after that release)
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Chris Hemsworth
• Chris Evans
• Two more, both MCU regulars (frankly it’s basically a Marvel roll call at this point)

As it stands, eight out of the ten actors on this list have been sucked into the Marvel Cinematic Universe vortex. Zoe Saldaña’s first-place finish isn’t just Marvel though—her time in Pandora with those Avatar films has been a massive help. Tom Holland’s position, meanwhile, owes a lot to his role in The Odyssey, which now holds the title of the biggest R-rated movie ever—a very handy boost when you’re climbing this particular leaderboard.

Downey’s Move

Robert Downey Jr. could shake all this up soon. He’s in the next Avengers: Doomsday, which hits cinemas in December and is all but guaranteed to rake in terrifying amounts of money. Neither Saldaña, Johansson, Pratt, Holland, Jackson nor any of those MCU A-listers appears in this one, but Hemsworth and Evans are showing up—though they’re far enough down the list that number one is out of reach for them, no matter how bonkers the opening weekend goes.

On a side note, if you want to get pedantic about it, no actual actor comes close to Marvel legend Stan Lee for pure box office total. Thanks to his barrage of cameos, the films he’s popped up in have grossed a silly $30.527 billion. It hardly seems fair, considering he was never more than a walk-on and never had to train for a single superhero fight scene, but technically those are the numbers.