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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Sep 6

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Tops $900 Million Domestic as $936 Million Record Nears

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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Sep 6

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Tops $900 Million Domestic as $936 Million Record Nears

Q: With Spider-Man shattering historical records, what hidden ultimatum is currently delaying Tom Holland's highly anticipated return to the franchise?

Tom Holland’s return was delayed by a scheduling ultimatum tied to Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey*. According to Holland, *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* was originally set to begin filming on the same day as Nolan’s film. That created a direct conflict, and Holland said Zendaya jokingly gave him the deciding push by telling him she would “leave” him if he passed on *The Odyssey*. The remark was playful, but it underscored how significant the opportunity was. The practical holdup was not a creative dispute over Spider-Man itself, but Holland’s need to ask Sony to move the production timetable. He later described having a “very uncomfortable conversation” with Sony chairman Tom Rothman to request a delay so he could take Nolan’s project. Sony ultimately shifted *Brand New Day*’s schedule, helped by confidence that Nolan would keep production on time. So the “hidden ultimatum” delaying Holland’s franchise return was really a mix of a joking personal nudge from Zendaya and a real studio scheduling conflict: if Holland wanted to do *The Odyssey*, Spider-Man had to wait.

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$900 million in North America puts Spider-Man: Brand New Day in rare company as only the second film ever to hit that mark without inflation adjustment.
A projected $22 million over the four-day Labor Day weekend should keep the Sony-Marvel release at No. 1 for a sixth straight weekend, with new titles not expected to challenge it.
That pace leaves the film closing in on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which has held the domestic record at about $936 million since 2015.
$2.33 billion worldwide has already lifted Brand New Day to No. 3 on the global box-office chart, behind only Avatar and Avengers: Endgame.