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Gauntlet passed: Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaks Endgame's opening record
A new movie called Spider-Man: Brand New Day is playing in theaters.
On its very first weekend, it made a huge amount of money: 360 million dollars.
That is more than any other movie has ever earned on an opening weekend in the United States.
The old record belonged to Avengers: Endgame, which made about 357 million dollars when it opened in 2019.
The directors of that older movie, Joe and Anthony Russo, congratulated the Spider-Man team online.
They shared a drawing of Spider-Man holding glowing stones and a chess piece.
Some fans think the chess piece is a clue that Spider-Man will show up in a future movie called Avengers: Doomsday.
The film stars Tom Holland as Spider-Man, with Zendaya and Jacob Batalon.
The studio expects it to earn more than 2 billion dollars worldwide by its second weekend.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day earned USD 360 million domestically in its opening weekend, a new US record.
It surpassed the USD 357.1 million debut of Avengers: Endgame, which had held the record since 2019.
Joe and Anthony Russo congratulated the cast and crew on Instagram alongside artwork by illustrator @bosslogic.
The artwork's chess piece sparked fan speculation about Tom Holland's Spider-Man appearing in Avengers: Doomsday, following leaked set photos of Robert Downey Jr.'s Victor Von Doom before a chessboard.
The film is projected to surpass USD 2 billion in worldwide box office during its second weekend in theatres.
- Who
- Tom Holland as Peter Parker, director Destin Daniel Cretton and the cast of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with Joe and Anthony Russo congratulating them.
- What
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day set a new US domestic opening weekend box office record with USD 360 million.
- Where
- United States (domestic box office).
- When
- During its opening weekend in theatres, surpassing the record set by Avengers: Endgame's 2019 debut.
- Why
- The Russo Brothers said 'the gauntlet has been passed' as the new film surpassed their Avengers: Endgame record.
Key facts
- Domestic opening weekend gross
- USD 360 million
- Previous record holder
- Avengers: Endgame (USD 357.1 million, 2019)
- Director
- Destin Daniel Cretton
- Lead cast
- Tom Holland (Peter Parker), Zendaya (MJ), Jacob Batalon (Ned)
- MCU installment
- Fourth standalone Spider-Man film led by Tom Holland
- Projected worldwide gross
- Over USD 2 billion by second weekend
- Lifetime gross benchmarks
- Avatar (USD 2.9B), Avengers: Endgame (USD 2.7B), Avatar: The Way of Water (USD 2.3B)
- Congratulatory message
- Instagram post by the Russo Brothers with artwork by @bosslogic
Quotes
Joe and Anthony Russo
Directors of Avengers: Endgame
“"Huge congratulations to Destin, Tom, Zendaya, Jacob, Jon, Mark, Sadie, Florence, Michael, Marisa, producers Kevin, Amy, Avi, and Rachel, and the entire Spider-Man: Brand New Day cast and crew on making domestic box office opening weekend history. The gauntlet has been passed…"”
telegraphindia.com
Sources
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