FOR 22 YEARS
US release: 14th August 1998
Israel release: 13th August 1998
Canada release: 14th August 1998
£2 Million 
$23.4 Million 
$26.2 Million The box office is officially swinging back into action. This weekend, Sony and Marvel Studios are finally launching the highly anticipated Spider-Man: Brand New Day across the UK. Thanks to Wednesday and Thursday preview screenings, the web-slinger has already scooped up an astonishing £5.82 million.
That jaw-dropping figure locks it in as the second-highest pre-screening take in UK cinema history. The ultimate box office crown is still safely held by Avengers: Endgame, which brought in a massive £11.9 million during its 2019 debut.
While Spidey couldn't quite topple Earth's Mightiest Heroes in the UK, it absolute crushed them in North America. Spider-Man: Brand New Day completely rewrote the history books by pulling in $72 million over its Thursday previews. That effortlessly bypassed Avengers: Endgame, which previously held the record at $60 million.
With massive hype following Peter Parker's new grounded reality, the film is currently tracking toward a monumental global opening weekend. Some bullish predictions even suggest a worldwide debut pushing past $900 million.
Check out the new trailer and poster for upcoming movie Avengers Doomsday which can be viewed in full if you scroll down this page.
Movie breakdown
Synopsis for Avengers Doomsday
Fourteen months after the events of Thunderbolts*, the Avengers, Wakandans, Fantastic Four, New Avengers, and the original X-Men team up to face Doctor Doom
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe from Disney continues the move along with a new movie Thunderbolts which has been given a 12A age rating in the UK for moderate violence, threat, language
The movie stars Florence Pugh who has previously been seen in the MCU movie Black Widow as well as Dont Worry Darling, the movie also stars Lewis Pullman who has previously been seen in Them That Follow and The Ballad of Lefty Brown.
The movie is directed by Jake Schreier who has previously been in the directors chair for Robot and Frank and Paper Towns.
Movie Synopsis
With the Avengers out of action a group of misfit superheroes face their troubled pasts as they resist a plot to eliminate them.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Spider-Man: No Way Home continues it's run at the top of the global box office this weekend as it spends a fourth weekend at the top, and with audience being unimpressed with the weekends new release, The 355 makes its debut at number 8 with $6.3 Million.
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Global box office top 5 breakdown weekend 7th - 9th January 2022
Four weeks in the the Marvel/Sony movie is still outstripping everything at the global box office as the movie takes $97.4 Million over the weekend from 63 countries, a slim 26% drop.
The movie has been the biggest thing to hit the global box office in a couple of year and this weekend its total global gross sits at an amazing $1.5 Billion.
It is now the 8th top movie of all time having just overtaken The Avengers from 2012.
THe animated sequel is proving to be a big hit at the global box office as the movie jumps to number 2 on it's third weekend with $29 Million from 55 countries, a very slim 21% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken $190.8 Million over its 3 week global release.
Director Matthew Vaughn's prequel movie jumps to number 3 from 6 on its third weekend with a gross of $16.6 Million from 44 countries, a slim 10% drop over last weekend.
This puts the movies total global gross at $74.2 Million.
Released in just 5 countries the Chinese movie falls to number 4 this weekend with $10.9 Million, a drop of 87%, giving it a total of $112.5 Million after 2 weeks of release.
THe latest movie in The Matrix series has had a troubled box office run so far but this week jumps to number 5 from 7 with a gross of $9.5 Million, a reasonable 45% drop over last weekend.
The movie is still on release in a huge 77 countries and has taken $76.2 Million globally to date.
After a re-release in China the 2009 James Cameron movie Avatar has once again become the top grossing movie of all time after it was knocked down to second place by Avengers: Endgame in 2019.
The 3D spectacular became the top grossing movie of all time on its initial release, replacing another James Cameron directed movie Titanic, which had been there for 10 years.
Avatar was also at the top for 10 years before being replaced by Avengers: Endgame which narrowly grossed more than the $2.78 Billion Avatar took with a $2.79 Billion global gross.
It was clear that all it was going to take was a successful re-release of the Avatar movie to reclaim the top, and in a period of time when studios are being cautious about releasing new movies why not release a film which has already made its money?
The real big winner here is Disney, they of course own the Marvel Universe movies for which Avengers: Endgame is one and since the 20th Century Fox acquisition in 2019/2020 they also own the Avatar franchise, so are Disney now going to re-release the Avengers movie?
James Cameron is currently working on 4 more Avatar movies and judging from this re-release the fan base is still there and hence the future for the franchise looks promising, maybe we'll get the first $3 Billion movie once the pandemic is out of the way?