Spider-Man: Brand New Day stayed atop the North American charts in its sixth weekend and will become the all-time top release in the coming days as a remarkable 2026 summer bids to cross the line as the biggest in history.
Columbia Pictures’ superhero saga starring Tom Holland added an estimated $18m over three days from 3,520 sites after a 20% drop and $23.3m over four to reach $923.1m. That leaves Destin Daniel Cretton’s tentpole breathing down the neck of the current highest-grossing release of all time in North America, Disney/Lucasfilm’s late 2015 tentpole Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens on an unadjusted $936.7m.
Brand New Day will overtake The Force Awakens, certainly by next weekend, to rank as the all-time box office leader. It has topped the charts in all six of its weekends and crossed $900m last week in a record 36 days.
Summer nears all-time record
Rentrak reported on Sunday morning that the three-day marketplace generated an estimated $90.4m while year-to-date box office stands at $7.357bn, marking a 20.4% lead over 2025 by the same stage.
Despite being a relatively lethargic final summer session (which through a quirk of the calendar ran one week longer than 2025), Rentrak sources said that if the overall four-day weekend produces $118m then this summer will squeak past 2013’s high-water mark of $4.756bn to rank as the unadjusted top summer of all time.
Universal’s The Odyssey from Christopher Nolan ranked second in its eighth session, earning an estimated $13m from three days after an excellent 9% drop in 2,312 locations and $17.2m from four. The $588.9m running total will see Nolan’s biggest-ever release surge past $600m by next weekend.
Now on an extended 70mm Imax run through the end of September, the adaptation of Homer’s epic poem powered the format to its highest-grossing Labor Day weekend of all time at the global box office on $22.2m over three and $27.2m over four days. In North America the film earned $7.7m for 48% of its domestic box office.
’Coyote vs. Acme’, ‘Buddy’ stay in top 10
Ranking third after a 29% hold in its second weekend is Coyote vs. Acme through Ketchup on $11.3m from three for a $33.8m running total, and $14.5m from four for $37m. Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav shelved the hybrid live-action/animation for a $30m tax write-off and eventually put it up for acquisition. Ketchup acquired the feature last year for $50m and has used modest box office to register its highest earner.
Rounding out the top five were Paramount’s new arrival By Any Means starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Mark Wahlberg as uneasy FBI-gangster bedfellows who team up to stop the killer of a Civil Rights leader in the 1960s. It opened at number four on $7.4m from three and $9.2m from four in 2,903 sites.
Sony horror Insidious: Out Of The Further in fifth place dropped 36% in its second weekend in 2,897 venues, earning $6.5m from three and $8.1m from four for $55.7m to overtake the 2010 original on $54m and 2015’s Chapter 3 on $52.2m Insidious: Chapter 2 from 2013 remains the top earner in the franchise on $83.6m. Numbers are unadjusted.
Disney rolled out Cars: 20th Anniversary and the Pixar classic earned $6.1m from three and $7.6m from four days in 2,900 locations. Roadside Attractions/Saban Films’ Sundance horror Buddy expanded by 513 sites to 1,771 and ranks seventh in its second weekend after a $5.7m three-day take for $14.3m following an excellent 5% increase and approximately $7.5m from four days for a $16m running total.
A24’s action thriller Onslaught from Adam Wingard and starring Adrian Arjona scored a lacklustre debut on $1.9m from 1,918 screens over three days and is projected to take $2.3m over four. An excellent cast includes Dan Stevens, Drew Starkey, and Rebecca Hall. Sony Pictures/Crunchyroll’s re-release of Akira arrived on $2.8m from three and $3.5m from four in 787 locations.
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