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Hollywood & Entertainment ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Reaches A Rare $2 Billion Worldwide, Joining 7 Others By Tim Lammers ,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Follow Author Aug 19, 2026, 04:10pm EDT Aug 19, 2026, 05:22pm EDT --:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more . This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more . Summary "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," featuring Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Sadie Sink, has achieved a rare feat by crossing $2 billion globally in just 17 days. This makes it the second-fastest film to reach this milestone, trailing only "Avengers: Endgame." Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the movie's $2.039 billion worldwide gross marks the first time a "Spider-Man" installment has entered this exclusive club, outperforming "No Way Home." It now stands among cinematic giants like "Avatar," "Titanic," and "Avengers: Infinity War," with expectations high for its continued ascent on the all-time highest-grossing list.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day , starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Sadie Sink, crossed the $2 billion mark at the global box office in its first 17 days in theaters, joining seven other films to reach the milestone.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Spider-Man: Brand New Day officially joined the $2 billion club on Sunday, when Sony Pictures Entertainment reported its weekend tallies reached $758.8 million domestically and $1.236 billion internationally, boosting the film’s running worldwide box office gross to $2.022 billion.
As such, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, at 17 days into its blockbuster run, became the second-fastest title to reach $2 billion at the global box office, behind Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe entry, Avengers: Endgame , which topped the $2 billion mark worldwide in 11 days.
Now that Spider-Man: Brand New Day has achieved a rarity in the movie industry, the next question will be how high the film can rise on the $2 billion list. In descending order, here are the films, along with the new Spider-Man chapter , to achieve the distinction, not adjusted for inflation.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s worldwide box office tally is vaulting upward daily, but as of Tuesday, Aug. 18, the film has earned $803.9 million domestically and $1.236 billion internationally.
Amazingly, for lack of a better word, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the first film in the Spider-Man movie franchise dating back to director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man in 2002 to pass the $2 billion mark worldwide. Spider-Man: No Way Home — the Marvel Cinematic Universe multiversal tale that featured all three Peter Parker/Spidey actors, Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire — came the closest by grossing $1.921 billion worldwide following its release in 2021.
The first of two Avengers movies in Phase 3 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Infinity War earned $678.8 million domestically and $1.373 billion internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $2.052 billion.
Avengers: Infinity War marks the first of two films from directors Anthony and Joe Russo to reach the $2 billion milestone. Could a third one be on the way with the December release of Avengers: Doomsday ?
The first of three films in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the first and only film in the nine-film Skywalker Saga to cross the $2 billion mark at the worldwide box office.
The film earned $936.6 million in North American theaters — which made it the highest-grossing film domestically, of all time — and $1.134 billion internationally, bringing the film to its $2.071 billion total worldwide.
Titanic is the first of three films from Oscar-winning director James Cameron to reach the $2 billion milestone at the global box office.
The Best Picture Oscar winner made most of its money in its initial box office run that began in December 1997 but added money to its overall tally with three re-releases of the film; the last of which was in 2023 to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary.
With its first and subsequent re-releases combined, Titanic earned $674.3 million domestically and $1.590 billion internationally, adding up to the film’s $2.264 billion worldwide tally.
An animated film from Chinese studio CMC Pictures, Ne Zha 2 made most of its money internationally with nearly $2,247 billion in ticket sales.
CMC then partnered with A24 to bring an English dub of the film to North American theaters in August 2025, where it earned $23.3 million domestically. While Ne Zha 2’s North American ticket sale paled in comparision to its international gross, it proved to be just enough to push the film over the $2 billion mark worldwide.
After becoming The King of the World with his Titanic triumph at the Oscars and the box office, James Cameron set sail for a cinematic universe worlds with release of Avatar in 2009.
The second film in what is currently a trilogy — there’s still no word on whether the Forbes billionaire writer-director will continue the saga — Avatar: The Way of Water earned $688.4 million domestically and $1.646 billion internationally to reach its worldwide box office tally of $2.334 billion worldwide.
Like Titanic , Avatar: The Way of Water’s box office reflects a combined total of the film’s initial release and a re-release in theaters ahead of the third film in the saga, 2025’s Avatar: Fire and Ash .
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo’s Avengers: Endgame is the highest-grossing movie from Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe to date and the third MCU film (including Spider-Man: Brand New Day ) to earn more than $2 billion at the worldwide box office.
Released in April 2019, Avengers: Endgame went on to earn more than $858 million domestically and $1.941 billion in international ticket sales to boost its global box office tally to $2.799 billion.
Avengers: Endgame’s box office run isn’t quite over yet. On Sept. 25, Disney is re-releasing the film under the ti...
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