FRIDAY AFTERNOON: 2026 will see its fifth $100M+ No. 1 weekend at the domestic B.O. as the sophomore session of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, armed with PLF and now Imax screens, is looking at $135M-$140M+ at 4,487 theaters.
That easily would deliver the third-best second frame ever at the domestic B.O. behind 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($149.2M) and 2019’s Avengers: Endgame ($147.3M) and ahead of 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War ($114.7M).
The second Friday for the Sony/Marvel Studios theatrical release is around $40M, -76% from its record first Friday/preview day of $169.8M.
On the high-end, the ten-day cume looks to be $650.8M by EOD Sunday, which would be 5% ahead of Endgame at the same point in time, that Marvel Russo Brothers feature ending its initial run at $858.3M (remember, Endgame is getting a re-release in September. Will it hold its status as the second-highest-grossing movie at the domestic B.O. after Force Awakens‘ $936.6M?).
Second belongs to the fourth frame of Universal’s The Odyssey at 3,603 theaters with $28.5M, -44%, for a running cume of $458.1M. Today is $8M. As we told you, it will soon beat Dark Knight Rises to become Christopher Nolan’s highest grossing movie ever at the global box office.
Third goes to Uni’s Will Gluck directed romcom One Night Only at 3,012 sites with a $2.9M Friday including $1.35M previews and a 3-day of $6M.
Fourth is Disney’s Toy Story 5 at 2,660 locations with an eighth Friday of $1.2M and an estimated eighth weekend of $4.3M, -36%, for a running cume of $470.8M.
Fifth goes to Searchlight’s Super Troopers 3 at 2,760 with an estimated $1.8M Friday, and 3-day of $4M.
FRIDAY AM: Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day will reign supreme not only this weekend in its second frame but for the entire month of August. Nonetheless, studios and indie distributors are hoping for a tide that lifts all boats in summer’s finale beginning this weekend with Universal’s romantic comedy One Night Only from Anyone But You director Will Gluck, which did $1.35 million in combined Thursday night and Monday secret screening previews.
That’s exactly what Anyone But You did in its Thursday night previews in its pre-Christmas weekend, leading to a $6M start and immense 14.7x multiple over the 2023 year-end holiday. The hope here is that One Night Only, which stars Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro, is a first choice for women over/under 25, will exceed $10M.
The sole Thursday preview take for One Night Only was $750,000. Its Rotten Tomatoes film review score is low at 47%, under Anyone But You‘s 53%, but the movie isn’t for critics. The rom-com two centers on two New Yorkers who search for love on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal. The pic is booked at 3,012 theaters Friday.
As we already told you, Spider-Man: Brand New Day was the fastest movie to cross a half-billion dollars domestically in seven days, beating Avengers: Endgame‘s pace to that benchmark which was eight days. The updated Thursday number for the Tom Holland and Zendaya pic is $29M, putting its running stateside cume at $510.8M. Even at a 60% ease in weekend 2, which is the general hold for these solid superhero movies, Brand New Day would land at $144M, which would make it the third best sophomore frame ever behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($149.2M) and Avengers: Endgame ($147.3M).
Also opening this weekend is Searchlight’s Super Troopers 3 at 2,760 theaters with an expected single-digit-millions opening. The distrib isn’t reporting previews, but sources tell us it’s around $350K. The last one, Super Troopers 2, was released in 2018 on April 20, a big day for pot smokers, and before the Disney-Fox merger was completed. It was a big surprise, posting $1.35M in previews and an outsized $15.1M opening for the crowd-co-funded $13.5M sequel. Searchlight gave the threequel a big push at Comic-Con two weekends ago with a world premiere and a beer pong games pub. Critics don’t think it is funny at 32%.
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Horror Section has Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man at 1,671 theaters, with an eye at low single digits. No previews were reported. Blurb for pic: An idyllic summer town descends into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results. Critics are ice cold at 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.