FRIDAY AM: We’re told that in the late evening hours, walk-up business exploded for Sony‘s Spider-Man: Brand New Day which now has a revised number of $72M. It was so much money that Sony couldn’t count; a rare air for any studio. That’s quite the jump from what we previously heard, and it beats the former all-time $60M preview domestic record held by Disney/Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame. PostTrak exits were also high last night with 5 stars from general audiences, parents and kids under 12.
That figure, as we told you earlier, includes the Prime Video members early access Wednesday night screenings and showtimes that began Thursday at 12 noon. Avengers: Endgame made its preview cash post 6PM when it bowed on its Thursday back in 2019.
What this means is that Brand New Day is destined for a $100M+ first Friday including previews, a feat only five other movies have accomplished previously: Avengers: Endgame ($157.4M), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($121.96M), Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($119.1M), Avengers: Infinity War ($106.3M) and Star Wars: Last Jedi ($104.6M). Of these Infinity War had the lowest preview at $39M, where as the other four were well north of $45M.
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If you look around at some of the multiplexes in major markets, when it comes to the majority of showtimes, it’s essentially the Brand New Day and Odyssey show this weekend, which happens in a Darwinian ‘survival of the fittest’ theatrical marketplace. The AMC Lincoln Center in NYC is showing Brand New Day 36x today, AMC Century City in LA has 40 showtimes devoted to the pic, while Regal Sherman Oaks Galleria has 43 showtimes and the chain’s L.A. Live with a massive 44.
Yesterday with the arrival of Spidey, Universal’s The Odyssey saw its lowest grossing day so far (which is still a great weekday number for a second Thursday) with an estimated $10.2M, -25% from Wednesday, and running cume of $344.4M. The Odyssey triumphs with the best second week for Christopher Nolan, ahead of Dark Knight‘s second week which was $112.4M.
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Here’s the week’s top 5
- Odyssey (Uni) 3,942 theaters, Wk $145M (-27%), Total $344.4M/Wk 2
- Moana (Dis) 4,015 theaters, Wk $17.5M (-39%), Total $109.4M/Wk 3
- Toy Story 5 (Dis) 3,375 theaters, Wk $16.8M (-25%), Total $455.3M/Wk 6
- Minions & Monsters (Uni) 3,386 theaters, Wk $16.75M (-27%), Total $162.5M/Wk 4
- Hadestown (BST) 1,949 theaters, Wk $16.2M/Wk 1
PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: When it comes to breaking box office records this weekend, look out, because Spider-Man: Brand New Day will do whatever a spider can, starting with tonight as the Sony, Marvel Studios and Amy Pascal production is outstripping the Thursday night previews of the 2021 previous chapter Spider-Man: No Way Home, which did$50M. All of this makes sense given the $80M advance ticket sales figure we heard about for the Tom Holland and Zendaya $225M net production.
No Way Home (which had previews begin at 3PM on its first Thursday) posted the third best previews ever behind 2019’s Avengers: Endgame‘s $60M (6PM start time) and 2015’s Star Wars: Force Awakens‘ $57M Thursday night. Now with more than $50M, Brand New Day stands as the third best U.S./Canada previews ever for a theatrical release, the best previews ever for a Sony movie, and the best previews post Covid. The Destin Daniel Cretton directed Spider-Man sequel began showtimes at 12 noon today, and its preview cash will include Wednesday night’s Prime Video member screening. Some sources were hearing that Brand New Day‘s preview money tonight was exceeding Avengers: Endgame. We’ll know by tom’w morning if it’s higher.
No Way Home‘s previews of $50M only repped 41% of its $121.96M first Friday. That resulted in the second best opening ever at the domestic box office with $260.1M behind Avengers: Endgame‘s all-time high of $357.1M. Force Awakens‘ $57M previews accounted for 48% of its first Friday which was $119.1M. At one point in time Force Awakens 3-day start of $247.96 held the all-time opening record in North America, but it eventually fell to fourth. NRG had a low domestic opening estimate of $195M for Brand New Day, but exhibitors and other tracking services such as Greenlight Analytics believe it’s significantly higher from $260M to even maybe $300M.
Some analysts begin to nerd out arguing that we need to take into account start time for the previews here on Brand New Day, and the time of year before making forecasts. Seriously, it doesn’t matter: this is a ton of money and the most we’ve seen in quite some time, putting away the previous post Covid preview record of $38.5M belonging to Deadpool & Wolverine two Julys ago.
And the other amazing thing about this Spider-Man is that he’s raking in all this cash without the help of Imax screens (which we saw Barbie do three years ago as Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer claimed them).
So far, Brand New Day has the best Rotten Tomatoes audience score out of the nine live-action Spider-Man movies with 98%. Critical score is strong at 90% certified fresh, which is just under the 93% of No Way Home.
Tonight’s estimates are according to sources.