Tom Holland’s Spider-Man swings into exclusive $2 billion club

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has smashed through the $2 billion barrier at the worldwide box office.

The earnings put Tom Holland’s latest adventure as the web-slinging superhero into one of cinema’s most exclusive clubs after just three weekends.

The Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios blockbuster, starring Tom, 30, in his fourth solo movie as Peter Parker, alongside his wife Zendaya, 28, has now earned $785.8 million in North America and $1.236 billion internationally for a worldwide total of $2.022 billion.

The film, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, opened in the US on July 31 and has become only the eighth movie in history to cross $2 billion globally.

The achievement makes Brand New Day the second-fastest film ever to reach $2 billion, behind only Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, which crossed the threshold after 11 days in 2019.

The latest Spider-Man has dominated cinemas since its release, opening with $355 million in North America and $932 million worldwide before passing $1 billion globally after only six days.

It has now overtaken its immediate predecessor, Spider-Man: No Way Home, which finished its theatrical run with $1.9 billion after being denied a release in China.

Brand New Day follows Peter after the events of No Way Home, in which a spell cast by Doctor Strange resulted in the world forgetting Peter Parker existed.

He is living alone and fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man while watching his former friends continue their lives without remembering him.

Tom is joined again by Zendaya as MJ and Jacob Batalon as Ned, while the film also features Sadie Sink, Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle aka The Punisher, Michael Mando as Mac Gargan aka Scorpion and Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner aka Hulk.

The blockbuster marks another enormous success for Tom, whose Peter Parker first appeared in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War.

He subsequently led Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home and No Way Home, while also appearing in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

Tom is simultaneously enjoying another huge theatrical hit this summer through Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

The epic, in which he plays Telemachus, has also crossed $1 billion worldwide, giving the British actor two billion-dollar movies in cinemas during the same summer.