Spider-Man: Brand New Day has broken Avengers: Endgame’s box office record, and The Russo Brothers answered on Instagram with a celebratory post. For a superhero release, that is a sharp result: Spider-Man movies usually do well, but this one still pushed past the film that once sat at the top of the global box office.
In July of 2019, Avengers: Endgame became the highest grossing movie after passing Avatar, a run that turned Marvel’s biggest crossover into the benchmark every franchise had to chase. Spider-Man: Brand New Day then went further, which is why the response from The Russo Brothers landed as more than social media noise.
The Instagram caption from The Russo Brothers singled out Destin Daniel Cretton, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Kevin Feige, and Amy Pascal. That list matters because it maps the people most directly tied to the result: the director steering the film, the actors fronting the series, and the producers shaping the Marvel side of the business.
Tom Holland and the record
Tom Holland is part of the success being celebrated, and that is the clearest sign this is not just a brand win but a star-driven one. Spider-Man: Brand New Day followed the twist ending of No Way Home, and the current box office total says that audience interest carried into the next chapter instead of fading after the last film’s finale.
Spider-Man movies usually do quite well at the box office, so the surprise is not that the title performed; it is that it crossed the number set by Avengers: Endgame. That kind of overtake is rare for any superhero release, especially one arriving after years in which Marvel also faced box office disappointments with The Marvels and Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Avengers: Doomsday on December 18th
Avengers: Doomsday is scheduled for December 18th, which gives Marvel a near-term follow-up after a public win that can be pointed to in marketing and internal planning. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is in theaters now in 2026, so the box office story is still unfolding while the next marquee date is already on the board.
James Cameron and Tobey Maguire sit in the background of this history because Endgame’s climb past Avatar once made the box office race feel settled, then less settled, and now unsettled again. For Marvel, the practical takeaway is simple: the Spider-Man title has done what big superhero films are supposed to do, and then one step more, by reclaiming the kind of attention that only record-breaking numbers can buy.
