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Tom Holland’s Spider-Man Just Pulled Off Something No Marvel Movie Had Ever Done

‘Brand New Day’ surpassed $936.7 million domestically, breaking a record held by ‘The Force Awakens’ since 2015.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now the reigning king of American box office hauls. The latest Spidey flick, which sets Peter Parker in a new alternate universe where his closest friends have no idea who he is, has officially overtaken Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the top-grossing movie ever at the domestic box office.

This means that Disney is the reigning box office king, with the megacorp owning/distributing/being associated with four of the five highest-grossing films at the domestic box office. The list includes two Spider-Man movies with Sony, one Avengers movie, and a Star Wars movie. The first James Cameron Avatar is also in the top five; at the time, 20th Century Fox distributed it. That company is now owned by Disney as 20th Century Studios, giving Disney distribution rights to the entire Avatar franchise.

All that is to say that technically, all five of the........

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