Spider-Man: Brand New Day has overtaken Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing movie of all time in North America.
Domestic box office for the Tom Holland sequel is now up to $936.773 million, according to Variety. That puts it just ahead of 2015’s The Force Awakens, which is sitting on $936 million at the North American box office.
Of course, The Force Awakens came out 11 years ago, so there’s inflation to consider here. But Sony and Marvel owner Disney won’t care; Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been an astonishing success, so much so that even movie executives were taken by surprise.
Earlier this month, Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman said that Brand New Day’s popularity was down to the fact that it is, essentially, a movie about “a lonely guy.”
If you’re one of the few who hasn’t seen Brand New Day yet, it picks up years after the events of 2021’s No Way Home, and shows Peter Parker struggling to cope with the absence of his friends and loved ones following Doctor Strange’s memory wipe spell. A decent chunk of the first act of the movie is spent showing Parker’s inner turmoil and, yes, his extreme loneliness, which is fueled by the end of his relationship with Zendaya’s MJ.
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