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Updated · Deadline · Aug 17

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Tops Third Weekend With $71M as Domestic Total Hits $786.8M

Updated

Updated · Deadline · Aug 17

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Tops Third Weekend With $71M as Domestic Total Hits $786.8M

Q: With Spider-Man dominating the 2026 box office, what massive secret does its post-credits scene reveal about the MCU's future?

It reveals that Spider-Man’s next MCU move is likely cosmic, not just street-level: the post-credits scene shows Ned’s Spidey-tracking app zooming past Earth and locating Peter Parker somewhere in space. That tease strongly suggests Marvel is positioning Tom Holland’s Spider-Man for a return in a larger crossover, most plausibly **“Avengers: Secret Wars.”** While Holland is not publicly listed for **“Avengers: Doomsday,”** the space setting and multiverse context line up more closely with **Battleworld**, the patchwork realm central to the “Secret Wars” comics and widely expected to play a major role in the MCU’s next phase. The scene also hints at a broader MCU future in which Spider-Man is pulled back into universe-shaping events after “Brand New Day” reset him to a more isolated, grounded status quo. In other words, Marvel appears to be signaling that Peter’s solo story may be local again, but his franchise future remains tied to the biggest multiversal story on the board. There is another major implication inside the film itself: Sadie Sink is revealed to be playing **Jean Grey**, linking Spider-Man directly to the X-Men side of the MCU. Combined with the post-credits tag, that points toward a future where Spider-Man, the X-Men, Avengers and possibly multiverse variants all converge in the same saga. So the “massive secret” is not a fully named destination, but a clear directional reveal: Spider-Man is heading off-world, likely toward the MCU’s coming multiversal endgame.

3 articles · Updated · Deadline · Aug 17

$71 million in its third weekend put Spider-Man: Brand New Day slightly above Sunday estimates, extending its No. 1 run and lifting its domestic total to $786.8 million.
That frame ranks as the second-best third weekend ever in North America, with a 51% drop that held better than Avengers: Endgame's 57% decline.
The Odyssey also edged higher on Sunday, taking $23.6 million in its fifth weekend for a $505 million domestic haul and $1.29 billion worldwide.
New releases trailed far behind: The End of Oak Street opened with $21 million, while PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie debuted at $20.25 million.
The results reinforce a strong late-summer box office, with Spider-Man likely to stay atop the market again next weekend.