Spider-Man Brand New Day ended The Force Awakens' nine-year record by 111,000 dollars - and it took 47 days instead of 165
After nearly a decade ruling the roost, Star Wars: The Force Awakens no longer holds the domestic box-office crown — guess what’s nabbed it instead.
Here we are again, Star Wars fans — the Force is no longer with you, not when it comes to smashing domestic box office records. For nearly a decade, The Force Awakens looked unassailable at the top of the all-time North American charts, sitting pretty above Spider-Men, Avengers, blue aliens and all the other mega-hits. But the winds have changed, and Marvel's web-slinger has finally managed what Endgame and No Way Home couldn't – with Spider-Man: Brand New Day officially becoming the biggest homegrown blockbuster ever released.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now the highest-grossing domestic release of ALL TIME at the North American box office.
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That public victory lap rolled in from Sony's social media team after the latest box office update, and fair play – it's deserved. For a long while, it looked as though $936.6 million would be a ceiling too high even for Marvel, especially in the streaming era when hardly anyone leaves the sofa unless there’s a free Funko Pop involved. But the stats don’t lie, and Brand New Day currently sits at $936.773 million in the US — just edges out The Force Awakens’s final total by $111,000. It’s microscopic in the scheme of Disney’s weekly churros budget, but historically massive.
Brand New Day toppled The Force Awakens' nine-year domestic box office reign by a margin of barely $111,000.
How Did It Happen So Fast?
Timing is everything, and Brand New Day took only 47 days to blast past a record that The Force Awakens needed 165 days to reach, including a whole festive marathon that stretched from one year into the next. None of this slow-burn, 'let it age like fine wine' business – this is industrial manufacturing territory. The opening weekend alone dropped jaws: a $360 million debut that finally dethroned Endgame’s years-old launch benchmark, and the film clung to first place for six weekends straight. Only the sequel to Practical Magic, of all things, finally bumped it off the top spot earlier this month.
- Brand New Day's opening weekend: $360 million (new record)
- Reached #1 all-time domestic: 47 days after release
- Total domestic haul: $936.773 million, nosing ahead of The Force Awakens’ $936.662 million
- Six consecutive weekends at #1 in the US
Breaking Records, Pandemic-Style
If you cast your mind back to 2021, people expected Spider-Man: No Way Home to do the same trick – right star, right creative team, all the goodwill in the world. It stopped just shy at $814.9 million, everyone shrugged and said maybe a billion really was out of reach. Fast-forward half a decade and this team simply came back and, well, finished the job. You do wonder if Tom Holland's web shooter gets some extra revolutions when there’s a historical notch on the line.
Brand New Day is still rolling along at the worldwide box office, now up to $2.45 billion globally — that’s not just the top gross for 2026, but enough for third on the all-time global list. For context, The Odyssey (the next biggest film this year) ran out of steam at $1.69 billion, and nothing else even tried to catch up.
If you’re desperate to split hairs, it’s true that ticket prices now are a few quid higher than back in 2015. That inflates the numbers a touch, as The Force Awakens also did when it leapfrogged Avatar (and we all know Gone with the Wind and the original Star Wars demolish both once you adjust for inflation). Still, the industry always returns to those raw dollar totals — caveats or not, that’s the metric that matters when studios are printing their own headlines.