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Spider-Man: Brand New Day 🕷️ | Marvel | Sony | July 31, 2026

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Biggest worldwide openings

1) Avengers: Endgame - $1.2B
2) Avengers: Infinity War - $640M
3) Spider-Man: No Way Home - $600M 
4) Zootopia 2 - $560M
5) Fast 8 - $541M
6) Star Wars VII - $538M
7) Jurassic World - $525M
8) Harry Potter 8 - $483M
9) Captain Marvel - $456M
10) Doctor Strange 2 - $452M
11) Star Wars 8 - $450M
12) Deadpool & Wolverine - $444M

 

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#SpiderManBrandNewDay trailer views via Instagram:

- Spider-Man movie page: 81.3M
- Tom Holland’s page: 85M
- Zendaya’s page: 20M
- Sadie Sink’s page: 24M
- Jacob Batalon’s page: 600k
- Mark Ruffalo’s page: 223k

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Your next Spider-Man movie exists because of a $7 million deal that accidentally created the most lopsided ownership split in entertainment.

In 1999, Marvel was broke. Fresh out of bankruptcy, they sold Sony the film rights to Spider-Man for $7 million. Sony passed on every other Marvel character. For $25 million, they could have had Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and the entire roster that later became a $33 billion cinematic universe.

They just wanted the spider.

That $7 million has returned over $11 billion at the box office across 10 films. No Way Home alone made $1.92 billion. Brand New Day is expected to be one of the biggest films of 2026.

But the real money story happened off-screen. Disney bought all of Marvel for $4 billion in 2009. They owned the comics, the characters, the merchandise. Everything except Spider-Man's film rights, which Sony still held. Then in 2011, Sony's electronics business was bleeding cash. They needed money fast. So Sony sold the Spider-Man merchandising rights back to Disney.

That's the decision that flipped who actually profits from Spider-Man.

Spider-Man merchandise generated $1.3 billion in global retail sales as of 2013, according to the Hollywood Reporter. More than Batman and Superman combined. That was before Tom Holland's trilogy, before the PlayStation Spider-Man games sold 70 million copies, before Into the Spider-Verse. Disney collects on all of it. Every Halloween costume, every backpack, every action figure.

So here's how Brand New Day actually works financially. Sony pays to make the film. Sony keeps about 95% of the box office. Disney keeps 100% of the merchandise revenue generated by the film. Sony makes the movie that sells the toys that make Disney money.

The full Spider-Man franchise has pulled in an estimated $26.8 billion in revenue across all streams. $14.5 billion of that is merchandise. $11.3 billion is the box office. The merch is worth more than the movies.

Sony paid $7 million to acquire the rights to make Spider-Man films. The Spider-Man merchandise alone, not the rest of Marvel, has returned more than 3x Disney's entire $4 billion purchase price for the whole company.

Every Spider-Man trailer is a toy commercial, with Sony paying for production.

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