Spider-Man: Brand New Day made $360 million in its first 3 days in 2026 — the biggest domestic opening weekend ever, past Avengers: Endgame.

Sony and Marvel's Spider-Man: Brand New Day took in $360 million across the US and Canada in its first three days, edging past Avengers: Endgame's $357.1 million to claim the biggest domestic opening weekend on record, not adjusted for inflation.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened bigger than any movie in North American history. When the Monday final numbers came in, the Tom Holland sequel had grossed $360 million domestically over its three-day debut — enough to pass Avengers: Endgame, which had held the record since April 2019 with $357.1 million.

The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Deadline all reported the same figure independently, working from studio actuals rather than opening-weekend estimates. That distinction matters here, because the margin between the two films is thin enough that a rounding error could flip the result.

How we know it's really the record

Box-office records get announced twice. The first number, released on Sunday, is a studio estimate of how the weekend will finish. The second, the "Monday actual," is the reconciled figure once every ticket is counted. Endgame itself is a cautionary tale: Disney announced a $350 million opening in 2019, but the final actuals settled at $357.1 million — a full $7 million higher than the headline.

That's why the Brand New Day claim rests on Monday actuals, not Sunday estimates. The Hollywood Reporter put the figure at $360 million drawn from 4,487 screens. Variety and Deadline confirmed the same total, with Deadline noting explicitly that Endgame had held the three-day domestic title at $357.1 million. Three trade publishers, all reporting the reconciled numbers, landing on the same result — that's the standard for calling a record, rather than a fan-site tally.

The gap is about $2.9 million. On a weekend that moved roughly $360 million, that's under one percent — a razor's edge by the standards of a category where the previous champion sat untouched for nearly seven years.

Why the "not adjusted for inflation" caveat matters

The record is specifically for the biggest domestic opening weekend in raw dollars. It is not the same as the biggest opening of all time once you account for ticket-price inflation, and it is not a global figure — this is US and Canada only.

Adjusted for inflation, the picture changes considerably. A ticket in 2026 costs more than a ticket in 2019, and far more than one did in the decades when films like Gone with the Wind or Star Wars first filled theaters. When outlets adjust openings to constant dollars, the rankings scramble, and Brand New Day's lead over Endgame narrows or disappears depending on which inflation measure you use. The trades that reported the record were careful to flag this: Variety spelled out that the comparison is not adjusted for inflation.

There's also the question of screen count. Brand New Day played on 4,487 screens — a wide release by any measure, and one that reflects how studios now saturate the market on opening weekend to front-load ticket sales before word of mouth and streaming windows erode demand. Bigger openings are partly a story of bigger, faster rollouts, not just bigger audiences.

What's still open to argue

Records like this invite a fair objection: is a raw-dollar opening record meaningful when tickets keep getting more expensive and studios keep widening their release footprints? By attendance — actual bodies in seats — the biggest opening weekends in history may belong to films from earlier eras entirely, and no single agreed method exists for ranking them.

What's not in dispute is the number itself. Three independent trades, working from reconciled studio actuals, agree that Brand New Day opened to $360 million domestically and that this figure clears Endgame's $357.1 million. Whether that makes it the "biggest opening ever" or merely the biggest in current dollars is the part still worth arguing over — and the part worth remembering the next time a headline drops the fine print.