Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

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Four years after Doctor Strange's spell erased Peter Parker from the world's memory, he is still in New York, fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man and known to nobody. The people closest to him have moved on without ever knowing he existed, and the film opens on a Peter who has chosen that isolation and is quietly being worn down by it.

The pressure begins to change him. His powers evolve in ways he did not ask for and cannot reliably control, and the film treats that transformation as something closer to a symptom than an upgrade. Into that comes Jean Grey, a young telepath searching New York for her missing sister, whose own uncontrolled abilities mirror Peter's and who pulls him back into contact with other people whether he wants it or not.

Along the way Peter crosses paths with Frank Castle, who has no patience for his restraint, and Bruce Banner, who understands better than anyone what it is to be reshaped by a power you did not choose. Destin Daniel Cretton directs from a script by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and the result is a noticeably smaller, lonelier Spider-Man film than the one that preceded it, built around a hero nobody remembers.

Cast and characters

Tom Holland plays Peter Parker, in his fourth solo outing as the character, opposite Zendaya as Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson, who now shares an apartment with Ned Leeds and has no memory of their relationship. Sadie Sink joins the series as Jean Grey, the telepath whose search for her sister drives much of the plot.

Jon Bernthal returns as Frank Castle, the Punisher, and Florence Pugh appears as Yelena Belova. Mark Ruffalo plays Bruce Banner, and Marisa Tomei returns as May Parker. Michael Mando finally pays off a thread left dangling since Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) as Mac Gargan, the Scorpion, with Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds, Tramell Tillman as Bill Metzger and Liza Colón-Zayas as Jean DeWolff.

Details

Director: Destin Daniel Cretton

Writer/Screenplay: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers

Producer: Kevin Feige, Amy Pascal, Avi Arad, Rachel O'Connor


Running time: 145 minutes (2 hr 25 min)

Certificate: PG-13 (United States) / 12A (United Kingdom)

Budget: $225 million

Box office: $2.335 billion worldwide ($891.8 million domestic as of August 31, 2026)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Released: July 31, 2026 (United States)

Music Composer: Michael Giacchino

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Trivia

  • Its $360 million opening weekend is the largest in box office history, taking the record from Avengers: Endgame, which had held it since 2019 with $357 million.
  • Only the second film ever to take more than $300 million in a single domestic weekend.
  • Reached $500 million domestically in seven days, the fastest any film has managed it, beating Avengers: Endgame by a day.
  • Passed $1 billion worldwide in six days and $2 billion in three weekends, the second-fastest to both marks.
  • Its $932 million global opening is the second-largest of all time.
  • The first Spider-Man film, in any incarnation going back to 2002, to pass $2 billion worldwide.
  • Held the number one spot at the domestic box office for five consecutive weekends.

Critical Reception

Reviews were strong without matching the highs of the previous entry. Critics singled out the decision to strip the character back to street level and build the film around loneliness rather than spectacle, and Tom Holland's performance drew some of the best notices of his time in the role. Sadie Sink's introduction as Jean Grey was widely treated as the film's most consequential piece of casting. The dissent, such as it was, focused on a middle act that several reviewers found overstuffed with guest appearances at the expense of its own story. It is the lowest-scored of Holland's Spider-Man films on Rotten Tomatoes, which says more about the company it keeps than about its reception.

Reviews

  • Rotten Tomatoes critics' score of 89% from 426 reviews.
  • Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 97% from more than 25,000 verified ratings.

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