'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' opens to a huge $927 million global box office

Los Angeles: "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" brought in a blockbuster $927 million in worldwide ticket sales in its opening weekend, including $355 million in the United States and Canada that made it the No 2 domestic opening of all time.

The film, which marks actor Tom Holland's fourth outing as the web-slinging superhero, depicts Peter Parker fighting crime in a world that has forgotten he is Spider-Man. Zendaya co-stars as MJ, the love of Parker's life. "'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' is fundamentally a movie about friendship, about the balm of connection in all our lives, and that is resonant to audiences of all ages and all around the world," Tom Rothman, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group, said.

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Data from Rentrak shows "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" had the highest domestic gross opening since the Covid-19 pandemic and the second-highest of all time, behind the 2019 release of the superhero film "Avengers: Endgame," hich raked in an inflation-adjusted $467 million in the US and Canada.