by FilmInk Staff`
Tom Holland’s return as Spider-Man has delivered a record-breaking Australian opening weekend, with audiences turning out in extraordinary numbers for Columbia Pictures’ SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY.
The film grossed $30.4m over the four-day Thursday to Sunday opening weekend, shattering records.
This figure is:
- The biggest opening weekend of 2026
- The 2nd biggest opening weekend of all-time in Australia
- The biggest opening weekend since 2019
- The biggest opening weekend of a Spider-Man film
- The biggest opening weekend outside of holidays
- The biggest Box Office ever recorded on a Saturday ($9.3m)
- The biggest Box Office ever recorded on a Sunday ($8.18m)
- The biggest opening weekend for Sony Pictures Releasing, Australia
The film’s $30.4m opening weekend gross is second only to the $34.1m four-day opening of AVENGERS: ENDGAME in 2019 and above the $27.3m opening of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS in 2015.
The film is a cultural juggernaut around the world this weekend, delivering an historic USD$927m worldwide opening including a USD$355m opening in the Domestic U.S market, where it is the #2 opening of all-time behind AVENGERS: ENDGAME. The film has been embraced by both critics and audiences globally, currently certified fresh with a 90% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 98% audience rating, the highest audience rating ever for a Spider-Man film.
In SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, Peter Parker is fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that no longer remembers him. As he watches his old friends move on without him, the pressure sparks a change he may not have the power to control. But that transformation could also be the only thing standing between the city and a powerful new villain no one can even see. The world may have forgotten Peter Parker, but he hasn’t forgotten them.
Stephen Basil-Jones, Managing Director of Sony Pictures Releasing Australia said “SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY has not only created brand new Box office records but underscores the fact that going to see movies at the cinema is well & truly back! It delivered the biggest Saturday ever at the cinemas, the biggest Sunday ever at the cinemas & the biggest opening in Sony Pictures long illustrious 100-year history. This is a win for everyone…fans and audiences of Spider-Man are just loving the film, the cinemas that are playing it & the industry at large which is making a big, bold announcement that cinema is back, stronger than ever.”
The film is currently showing at over 315 locations nationwide.
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, and written by Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers. Based on the MARVEL Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Produced by Kevin Feige p.g.a., Amy Pascal, p.g.a. Avi Arad and Rachel O’Connor, p.g.a. Executive Producers are Louis D’Esposito and David Cain. The film stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando and Mark Ruffalo.
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY is in cinemas now.
