Deadline reports that Spider-Man: Brand New Day has become the fastest movie in history to reach $800 million at the North American box office. It will achieve that feat later today, surpassing that benchmark in a record 19 days.
The previous record-holder was 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which took 23 days to reach that number. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is only the fourth movie to reach $800 million domestically, but the third for Tom Holland after Avengers: Endgame ($858.3 million) and Spider-Man: No Way Home ($804.7 million).
It's no wonder then that he stands to make upwards of $100 million for this role in this movie!
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is expected to make $9 million today, following a solid $7.5 million on Monday. The Force Awakens is the only blockbuster to hit $900 million, and it did so in 50 days. Now, Spidey stands a good chance of breaking its $936.6 million record.
This weekend, Insidious: Out the Further, The Magic Faraway Tree, and Mutiny all open in theaters. Even so, Spider-Man: Brand New Day will remain at #1 for the fourth weekend in a row with an expected $35 million haul.
As you may already know, Spider-Man: Brand New Day was filmed in the UK. Marvel Studios used to be based primarily in Georgia in the U.S., but it moved to Pinewood Studios for The Fantastic Four: First Steps and has remained there ever since (Avengers: Doomsday was shot in the UK, with Avengers: Secret Wars up next).
Talking to Variety for his new film King Snake, Mud and Midnight Special director Jeff Nichols criticised Disney and Marvel Studios for leaving for the UK instead of sticking by the Southern states.
"It’s devastating. Studios negotiate contracts with these guilds and unions, and I suppose when they make agreements that they don’t ultimately want to pay for the results if they take production elsewhere. I’ve been in Georgia, and from what I’ve heard it’s been a pretty devastating blow with Disney taking everything to London; the work there has been challenging since this last round of strikes and everything else."
"The thing is, American independent filmmakers do have to abide by those contracts — and they weren’t built for us. We really need to look, as an industry, at independent film production — what it provides, what it costs — and we need more flexibility in those contracts, and more flexibility from our unions and our guilds in order to make things at different price points so that as independent film producers we have a fighting chance to keep things in the U.S."
"The truth is, as state-based subsidies continue to change and move, that’s not enough. We have to find ways to have independent film producers stay in the United States, and it’s a massive challenge, so that in between the big studio films there’s a thriving ecosystem of film."
Hollywood studios have a major financial incentive to film in the UK, but at least part of the reason Marvel Studios has left Georgia is because of the backlash surrounding their contributing to the economy of a state that has strict anti-abortion laws. DC Studios has similarly come under fire for basing projects there (Superman and Man of Tomorrow), though the studio also headed to the UK to shoot Supergirl.
In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, it's a Brand New Day for Peter Parker. Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn’t remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter he may not have the power to control.
But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see. The world may have forgotten Peter Parker, but he hasn’t forgotten them.
In our review, we concluded by saying, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day is everything fans could want. Emotional, hilarious, and heartfelt, it’s an action-packed love letter to the comics and one of Spidey’s best big-screen adventures. Spider-Man has never been more amazing."
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now playing in theaters.