Thanks to theMCU’s previous successes,Spider-Man: Brand New Dayseems to ideally need to make not all that far off $1 billion in its box office results, which sets an interesting precedent for the 2026 Marvel movie. FollowingSpider-Man: No Way Home’s ending,Spider-Man: Brand New Dayhas plenty of big goals to make reality.
In the span of one movie,Spider-Man: Brand New Dayneeds to start off a new arc for the beloved hero inthe MCU timeline, and introduce a whole new world of allies and enemies into his story, too. The results of the film’s predecessors also set a steep challenge for the film in terms of its financial takings, and what bar it looks like theupcoming MCU movieneeds to match or best.
Spider-Man’s Movie History Is One Of Marvel’s Most Successful, & The MCU Trilogy Is No Different
Given Spider-Man is one of the most popular superheroes of all time, it’s arguably par for the course that the hero’s movie history has also been a solid one both in terms of critical and box office success.Even Spider-Man’s lowest live-action box office results to date come in at a considerable $709 million(as perThe Numbers), which is still significantly higher than a fair portion of Marvel’s movie offerings.
Similarly, Peter Parker’s highest box office results are not only some of the highest in Marvel’s movie catalog, but also some of the biggest results in the entire superhero genre so far to date.Spider-Man: No Way Homemade an eye-watering $1.9 billion, making it the third highest-grossing movie made by Marvel Studios, and giving it a box office that’s only slightly lower thanAvengers: Infinity War.
The fact that Spider-Man has been a consistently successful movie presence for over 20 years has also helped expand the franchise into theatrically released animated movies, with Miles Morales' Spider-Verse films thus far also being a strong showing of what’s possible in this format. Indeed, given this Spider-Man managed to bring in $681 million with 2023’sSpider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, it really does seem the franchise is going from strength to strength.
That said, Spider-Man’s live-action MCU trilogy has garnered the hero’s strongest results. WhileNo Way Homeis the most obvious of these success stories, the entire trilogy holds some of the most consistently strong critical and financial results in the superhero genre’s history. As it stands, though, this does set something of a high bar forSpider-Man: Brand New Day.
Spider-Man’s MCU Movie History Means Spider-Man: Brand New Day Ideally Needs To At Least Match The Trilogy’s Lowest Box Office
WhileSpider-Man: Brand New Daywill hopefully live up to the higher results of the MCU’s movies,it stands to reason the base hopes for the movie are that it will at least match the box office results of the lowest entry in the original MCU trilogy. For Spider-Man, this would be 2017’sSpider-Man: Homecoming, which is still a huge bar for the upcoming 2026 release.
ThoughSpider-Man: Homecomingis the trilogy’s lowest-grossing film, it’s still by no means an unsuccessful movie. In fact,Homecomingearned itself a worldwide box office result of $878 million(The Numbers), which places it among Marvel Studio’s top 14 movies in this regard.
This is no easy feat, especially when you consider how many other major moviesSpider-Man: Homecoming’s box office is larger than. This list that includes all three Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and other well-respected superhero releases likeCaptain America: The Winter SoldierandBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever, which are successful in their own right.
The fact the MCU Spider-Man trilogy’s lowest box office is still close to $1 billion speaks to the series' massive overall success, and also the major successSpider-Man: Brand New Daywill itself need to net itself to live up to even just Homecoming. However, the setup forSpider-Man: Brand New Daydoes make it seem very much possible for the upcoming MCU film to reach and outdoHomecoming’s results.
There Are Already Plenty Of Reasons For Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s Box Office To Beat Spider-Man: Homecoming’s
Spider-Man: No Way Home’s ending left audiences on a major cliffhanger of sorts, as it showed Peter essentially starting over in many ways. Ending the trilogy at this point naturally leaves fans wanting to know what happened next for the web-swinging hero, which immediately makesBrand New Dayall the more interesting.
Now that audiences have had years to grow attached to Holland’s Spider-Man, it’s likely thatBrand New Daywill reap the rewardsof the time the MCU has spent building up the character. The factBrand New Dayalso offers the chance to see a brighter chapter of Peter’s life followingNo Way Home’s bittersweet ending may also resonate with fans enough to bolster its results.
By the time ofSpider-Man: Brand New Day’s release, the MCU’s Spider-Man will have 10 years of on-screen history, having been first introduced in 2016’sCaptain America: Civil War.
Spider-Man: Brand New Dayappearing to be the last MCU movie beforeAvengers: Doomsdaymay also leave people curious about whether the films tie together. Though Holland’s Spider-Man may end up meeting Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom inAvengers: Secret Wars, the prospect of an earlier meeting may well encourage more people to see the fourth Spider-Man movie.
All in all, whileSpider-Man: Brand New Dayhas a high bar to meet if the film is to live up to its predecessors and their box office results, this is a task the franchise seems very much equipped for. Hopefully, the MCU will continue to reinforce Spider-Man’s cinematic legacy, both in terms of the positive reception to Spider-Man movies, and their financial success.
