Endgame Record to Claim Biggest Opening Day

Seeing Spidey reach these heights is incredible but not out of character. Early expectations had the film poised for a massive debut. Preview audiences then helped the Marvel movie bring in $72 million, giving it not only a solid head start on the weekend but an additional broken record over Endgame’s $60 million preview day.

Although we’re only halfway through Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s first weekend in theaters and global totals have yet to be tallied, it feels all but confirmed that it will manage to walk away with the biggest opening weekend of the year, if not of all time.

That’s not to say Marvel hasn’t had stiff competition in the lead-up to the release of its new summer blockbuster. Nintendo and Illumination’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie also had a strong opening in April and eventually went on to cross the $1 billion mark in June.

King of Pop biopic Michael pulled in record numbers upon its late April premiere and passed $1 billion last month, and Toy Story 5 piled on a global opening of $312 million in June before reaching $1 billion last weekend. Finally, there’s The Odyssey, which exceeded expectations with its $264 million global opening. Although the Christopher Nolan movie hasn’t reached the big B quite yet, it seems on track to sail past it in the near future. It looks like Spidey, meanwhile, will beat them all.

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