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Spider-Man Hits $1.67B, Nolan’s Odyssey Tops $1.1B

8/9/2026

Summary

Story summary

Spider-Man: Brand New Day earned $145 million domestically and $381 million worldwide in its second weekend, raising its total to $1.67 billion.
The film reached $655 million in the U.S. and Canada after ten days, the highest ten-day domestic gross ever.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey crossed $1.1 billion, surpassing The Dark Knight Rises as his top-grossing film.
Together the two blockbusters lifted summer box-office revenue to near $4 billion, the strongest level since 2019.

History

Historical Context

In December 2009 James Cameron’s Avatar opened and earned $2.92 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film ever. Its success spurred a wave of franchise tentpoles, and after Disney’s 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox the studio continued to market large-scale sequels such as Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The pattern shows that globally coordinated blockbusters now set box-office benchmarks for the 2020s.

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Story summary

Spider-Man: Brand New Day earned $145 million domestically and $381 million worldwide in its second weekend, raising its total to $1.67 billion.
The film reached $655 million in the U.S. and Canada after ten days, the highest ten-day domestic gross ever.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey crossed $1.1 billion, surpassing The Dark Knight Rises as his top-grossing film.
Together the two blockbusters lifted summer box-office revenue to near $4 billion, the strongest level since 2019.

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