Spider-Man: Brand New Day delivers the second biggest opening in Australian box office history.

Sydney, Australia – Spider-Man: Brand New Day has made Australian box office history, attracting 1.46 million admissions and $30.4 million at the Australian box office across its Thursday to Sunday opening weekend to secure the second biggest opening of all time for a film. This result has Spider-Man: Brand New Day finishing just behind the $34 million opening of Avengers: Endgame in 2019 and surpassing the $27.3 million debut of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015. 

Across the full Australian market, the box office generated $39.2 million, making it the second biggest weekend in Australian box office history. Saturday 1st August also became the biggest single day in Australian box office history, grossing $12.6 million nationwide.      

Globally, Spider-Man: Brand New Day delivered a phenomenal $927 million opening, securing the second biggest worldwide debut of all time behind Avengers: Endgame, which opened with $1.2 billion in 2019. 

Guy Burbidge, Managing Director of Val Morgan Cinema, said, “Pure and simple, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is yet another example of a huge cultural moment that Cinema is famous for. It delivers brands all the right media ingredients – urgency, anticipation, excitement, experience and conversation. On the strength of these fantastic weekend results, we have increased our delivery expectations; the brands that are leaning in are benefitting from what is on track to be the biggest film of the year.” 

Burbidge continued, “This result builds on an exceptional period for the industry. July generated more than $131 million at the Australian box office, becoming the fourth consecutive month to surpass $100 million for the first time ever. July was also the highest-grossing month since the Barbenheimer phenomenon in July 2023.  

“The results throughout this year have been consistently strong, with first half audiences up 16% year on year and now with the release of The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that momentum is carrying well into the second half.  

In the coming months we have The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Digger, The Social Reckoning, Focker In-Law and then ‘Dunesday’, when Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three both arrive in cinemas on the same day - December 17 - creating what will be the year’s biggest cultural event.” 

Source: Numero, CineTAM.