‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is Already a Pretty Big Hit
The people have spoken, and they like Spider-Man movies—especially Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the new film opened to $355 million in North America, nearly double its tracking of $180 million-$190 million. It’s the second-biggest domestic launch ever behind Avengers: Endgame’s $357.1 million from 2019.
- ▪The people have spoken, and they like Spider-Man movies—especially Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
- ▪Per the Hollywood Reporter, the new film opened to $355 million in North America, nearly double its tracking of $180 million-$190 million.
- ▪It’s the second-biggest domestic launch ever behind Avengers: Endgame’s $357.1 million from 2019.
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| Original publisher | Gizmodo |
| Canonical URL | https://gizmodo.com/spider-man-brand-new-day-is-already-a-pretty-big-hit-2000793748 |
| Publication time | Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:59 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-03T12:05:40.645Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-03T12:05:40.645Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | x_2761PM3DoA · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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The people have spoken, and they like Spider-Man movies—especially Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the new film opened to $355 million in North America, nearly double its tracking of $180 million-$190 million. It’s the second-biggest domestic launch ever behind Avengers: Endgame’s $357.1 million from 2019. Combined with $572 million from overseas, Brand New Day has made $927 million worldwide. That makes it the second-biggest launch worldwide, similarly behind Endgame’s $1.2 billion open.
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