# Spider-Man: Brand New Day
**Spider-Man: Brand New Day** is a 2026 American superhero film starring [Tom Holland](https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-holland) as Peter Parker / [Spider-Man](https://www.edgepedia.org/spider-man), the fourth solo Spider-Man film set in the [Marvel Cinematic Universe](https://www.edgepedia.org/marvel-cinematic-universe) (MCU) and the last MCU release before *Avengers: Doomsday* (2026).[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, it continues the story begun in *Spider-Man: No Way Home* (2021), in which Doctor Strange's spell made the entire world, including Peter's girlfriend MJ and best friend Ned, forget that Peter Parker exists.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) The film was released in most markets on July 29 to 31, 2026, grossed about $2.52 billion worldwide, and became the highest-grossing film in Sony Pictures history.[2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt22084616/) • [3](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2026/08/22/spider-man-brand-new-day-and-the-odyssey-give-france-s-box-office-a-boost_6756753_30.html)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Position in series | Fourth film featuring Tom Holland as Spider-Man; the 38th MCU installment and the last MCU release before *Avengers: Doomsday* (2026)[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) • [4](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/spider-man-brand-new-day-first-reviews/) |
| Setting | Four years after *Spider-Man: No Way Home*, in a world that has forgotten Peter Parker because of Doctor Strange's spell[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) |
| Director and writers | Destin Daniel Cretton; screenplay by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers (with Justin Kuritzkes credited on the trailer), based on the Marvel comic book characters by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) • [5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62bIsvRcPv0) |
| Release | July 29, 2026 in six markets; July 31, 2026 in the United States; digital release October 6, 2026[2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt22084616/) • [1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) |
| Box office | $2,517,046,128 worldwide, including a domestic opening of $360,091,572, the highest opening weekend in domestic box office history[2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt22084616/) • [6](https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/why-tom-holland-spider-man-brand-new-day-shot-in-london-instead-of-new-york/) |
| Reception | 90% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer (439 reviews) and 97% on the Popcornmeter; 66 on Metacritic from 56 reviews[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spider_man_brand_new_day) • [8](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/spider-man-brand-new-day/?userdpbjs=1) |
| Rating and runtime | Rated PG-13 for sequences of action/violence and some language; running time 2 hours 25 minutes[5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62bIsvRcPv0) • [2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt22084616/) |
## Spoilers
### Premise and characters
The story begins four years after the ending of *No Way Home*, in which Peter Parker asked [Doctor Strange](https://www.edgepedia.org/doctor-strange) to make the world forget him to protect his friends.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) Peter now lives alone in a modest apartment, grieving his late [Aunt May](https://www.edgepedia.org/aunt-may), and fights crime full-time as Spider-Man while watching MJ (Zendaya) and Ned ([Jacob Batalon](https://www.edgepedia.org/jacob-batalon)) build adult lives without him; both have graduated from MIT and returned to New York, where Ned has even built a "Spidey Tracker" app to follow Spider-Man sightings.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) • [9](https://apnews.com/article/cc086ad7c68fd14300877f98b963d2a6)
**A changing hero.** The pressure of isolation and constant crime-fighting sparks a physical transformation in Peter: his senses evolve, his wrists leak a web-like goo, and his eyes dilate and turn black, symptoms of an accelerating mutation that also lets him resist the film's central threat.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) • [10](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/spider-man-brand-new-day-underwhelming-spidey-spectacle-0) Sony's synopsis describes "a powerful villain no one can even see," and the film's antagonist is a telepathic young woman played by [Sadie Sink](https://www.edgepedia.org/sadie-sink), whose character is [Jean Grey](https://www.edgepedia.org/jean-grey), making the X-Men icon's first MCU appearance.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) • [10](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/spider-man-brand-new-day-underwhelming-spidey-spectacle-0) • [11](https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/marvel-movies/jean-grey-making-her-mcu-debut-in-spider-man-brand-new-day-came-out-of-the-story-says-marvel-boss-kevin-feige/) Jean arrives in New York searching for her missing older sister Sara and can transfer her consciousness into other people; her target is the Department of Damage Control, the government agency that contains dangerous superhuman technology.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday)
The supporting cast brings in established MCU figures. [Jon Bernthal](https://www.edgepedia.org/jon-bernthal) returns as Frank Castle / The Punisher, a lethal vigilante whose brutal methods first put him at odds with Spider-Man before the two form a volatile big-brother, little-brother bond.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) [Mark Ruffalo](https://www.edgepedia.org/mark-ruffalo) plays Bruce Banner, now a quantum mechanics professor at Empire State University, who helps Peter understand his transformation until Banner loses control and unleashes the primal Savage Hulk.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) Tramell Tillman plays William "Bill" Metzger, the charismatic director of Damage Control who emerges as a hidden force of conflict.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) [Michael Mando](https://www.edgepedia.org/michael-mando) also appears, and Marvel's promotional material ties the film to *Avengers: Doomsday* as a setup for the franchise's next phase.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday) • [12](https://cdnc.heyzine.com/files/uploaded/v3/e69ae2fa1e1d71cd8113d1ce7501534353ab23bd.pdf)
## Production
[Jon Watts](https://www.edgepedia.org/jon-watts), director of the previous three Holland Spider-Man films, did not return; [Destin Daniel Cretton](https://www.edgepedia.org/destin-daniel-cretton), director of *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings* and creator of the *Wonder Man* series, was hired, and the title was confirmed at CinemaCon in March 2025.[13](https://comicbook.com/movies/feature/spider-man-brand-new-day-everything-we-already-know/) The casting of Cretton followed a delay that Tom Holland himself requested: he told GQ that he had an "uncomfortable conversation" with [Sony Pictures](https://www.edgepedia.org/sony-pictures) boss Tom Rothman about postponing the film so he could shoot Christopher Nolan's *The Odyssey*, and that the delay opened the door for Cretton to be hired.[14](https://au.variety.com/2026/film/news/tom-holland-sony-spider-man-brand-new-day-delay-the-odyssey-37217/) Holland later said the extra six months of pre-production helped the film.[15](https://t.co/A3CsstIKf6)
**Shooting in the United Kingdom.** Although the story is set in New York, most of the film was shot in Britain: at London's Pinewood Studios, where production designer Charles Wood built a sprawling backlot representing several New York neighborhoods, and on location in Glasgow, Scotland, which stood in for New York streets in a large set piece.[6](https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/why-tom-holland-spider-man-brand-new-day-shot-in-london-instead-of-new-york/) • [16](https://au.variety.com/2026/film/features/spider-man-brand-new-day-exclusive-behind-the-scenes-tom-holland-40947/) English locations included Fanum House in [Basingstoke](https://www.edgepedia.org/basingstoke), Hampshire, where Spider-Man was tethered to a moving truck, and the Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent.[17](https://www.filminginengland.co.uk/where-did-spider-man-brand-new-day-film/) For the film's biggest action set piece, in which Spider-Man fights ninjas to stop a large-scale prison escape, shooting took place at HMP Dorchester, a prison that had formerly been in operation.[18](https://www.moviewalks.com/news/from-glasgow-s-streets-to-a-dorset-prison-where-spider-man-brand-new-day-was-filmed~raUqRLJ2/)
Director of photography Brett Pawlak shot the film on large-format cameras with prototype Panavision lenses and a show LUT developed with colorist Tom Poole at Company 3, designed to protect the saturated reds and blues of the Spider-Man suit while keeping shadows inky black, inspired by the character's earliest comic depictions such as the *Amazing Fantasy* cover.[19](https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/cinema-cameras/neither-of-us-could-quite-put-our-finger-on-it-but-we-both-agreed-there-was-something-special-spider-man-brand-new-day-cinematographer-talks-shooting-with-a-large-format-camera-prototype-lenses-and-comic-book-inspired-luts) Cretton described the production philosophy as grounded: the action was designed to feel like it could happen, and the cinematography was meant to match.[20](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/07/31/spider-man-brand-new-day-delivers-the-most-resonant-peter-parker-story/)
## Release and box office
The film opened in six markets on July 29, 2026, and in the United States on July 31.[2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt22084616/) Its domestic opening of $360,091,572 topped the $357 million opening of *Avengers: Endgame* (2019) to become the highest opening weekend in domestic box office history.[6](https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/why-tom-holland-spider-man-brand-new-day-shot-in-london-instead-of-new-york/) Its first global weekend brought in $932 million, the second-biggest opening in worldwide box office history after *Endgame*'s $1.2 billion, and fueled the biggest collective weekend in North American box office history at about $430 million.[21](https://theweek.com/culture-life/film/spider-man-nets-billion-opening-weekend) It then topped the domestic box office for six consecutive weeks, the second film of the decade to do so after *Avatar: The Way of Water* (2022).[22](https://apnews.com/article/0985d43deebda5f5721267b51104ef4c) By August 19 it had passed $2 billion worldwide, making it the most successful film in Sony Pictures history, and it finished with $2,517,046,128 worldwide, about 62 percent of it international, including $232.5 million from China.[3](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2026/08/22/spider-man-brand-new-day-and-the-odyssey-give-france-s-box-office-a-boost_6756753_30.html) • [2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt22084616/) The film became available digitally on October 6, 2026, through retailers including Apple TV, Prime Video, Fandango, and Sony Pictures Core.[1](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday)
## Reception
The film debuted to a 92 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, the best-rated MCU movie in five years, before settling at 90 percent with 439 reviews; the audience Popcornmeter stands at 97 percent from more than 25,000 verified ratings.[23](https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/marvel-movies/spider-man-brand-new-day-debuts-to-a-92-percent-rotten-tomatoes-score-becoming-the-highest-rated-mcu-movie-in-5-years/) • [7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spider_man_brand_new_day) Metacritic recorded a score of 66 from 56 reviews.[8](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/spider-man-brand-new-day/?userdpbjs=1) Reviewers repeatedly compared it to Sam Raimi's *Spider-Man 2* (2004): The Independent called it the best Spider-Man film in more than 20 years, and several critics made the same comparison.[24](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/spider-man-brand-new-day-review-marvel-b3024297.html) • [4](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/spider-man-brand-new-day-first-reviews/) Praise centered on Holland's performance, the emotional focus on Peter's isolation and his relationships with MJ and Ned, and Cretton's kinetic direction; the Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus calls it "a promising reset" built on spectacular set pieces and mature emotional stakes.[4](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/spider-man-brand-new-day-first-reviews/) • [7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spider_man_brand_new_day)
Criticism targeted the plot and the franchise obligations. Several reviewers called the two-and-a-half-hour film overstuffed, and TheWrap's William Bibbiani wrote that the villain's plan "makes no sense" on reflection.[4](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/spider-man-brand-new-day-first-reviews/) The Atlantic's David Sims argued that the film briefly aspires to be unconcerned with Avengers plotlines but is ultimately used as a launchpad for future projects, and IndieWire's David Ehrlich called the story "dull and downbeat" and clueless about how to push forward.[25](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/07/spider-man-brand-new-day-movie-review/688114/) • [23](https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/marvel-movies/spider-man-brand-new-day-debuts-to-a-92-percent-rotten-tomatoes-score-becoming-the-highest-rated-mcu-movie-in-5-years/) Sight and Sound's Adam Nayman found the spectacle underwhelming and the stakes thin, while noting that the film ditches the multiverse and returns the character to solo duty.[10](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/spider-man-brand-new-day-underwhelming-spidey-spectacle-0)
## References
1. [SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, Sony Pictures Entertainment](https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanbrandnewday)
2. [Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026), Box Office Mojo](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt22084616/)
3. ["'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' and 'The Odyssey' give France's box office a boost", Le Monde](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2026/08/22/spider-man-brand-new-day-and-the-odyssey-give-france-s-box-office-a-boost_6756753_30.html)
4. ["Spider-Man: Brand New Day First Reviews", Rotten Tomatoes editorial](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/spider-man-brand-new-day-first-reviews/)
5. [SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY – New Trailer (4K), Sony Pictures Entertainment on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62bIsvRcPv0)
6. ["Tom Holland Explains Why 'Brand New Day' Was Shot in London", TheWrap](https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/why-tom-holland-spider-man-brand-new-day-shot-in-london-instead-of-new-york/)
7. [Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spider_man_brand_new_day)
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9. ["Movie Review: In 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' a lonely superhero grows up and looks inward", AP News](https://apnews.com/article/cc086ad7c68fd14300877f98b963d2a6)
10. ["Spider-Man: Brand New Day: An underwhelming spidey spectacle", Sight and Sound, BFI](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/spider-man-brand-new-day-underwhelming-spidey-spectacle-0)
11. ["Jean Grey making her MCU debut in Spider-Man: Brand New Day 'came out of the story,' says Marvel boss Kevin Feige", GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/marvel-movies/jean-grey-making-her-mcu-debut-in-spider-man-brand-new-day-came-out-of-the-story-says-marvel-boss-kevin-feige/)
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13. ["Spider-Man: Brand New Day – Everything We Already Know", ComicBook.com](https://comicbook.com/movies/feature/spider-man-brand-new-day-everything-we-already-know/)
14. ["Tom Holland Called Sony Pictures Boss to Delay 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'", Variety Australia](https://au.variety.com/2026/film/news/tom-holland-sony-spider-man-brand-new-day-delay-the-odyssey-37217/)
15. ["Spider-Man: Brand New Day: Director Destin Daniel Cretton interviewed", OutNow](https://t.co/A3CsstIKf6)
16. ["Tom Holland Takes Us Behind-the-Scenes of the Sets of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'", Variety Australia](https://au.variety.com/2026/film/features/spider-man-brand-new-day-exclusive-behind-the-scenes-tom-holland-40947/)
17. ["Where did Spider-Man: Brand New Day film?", Filming in England](https://www.filminginengland.co.uk/where-did-spider-man-brand-new-day-film/)
18. ["From Glasgow's Streets to a Dorset prison: Where Spider-Man: Brand New Day was filmed", MovieWalks](https://www.moviewalks.com/news/from-glasgow-s-streets-to-a-dorset-prison-where-spider-man-brand-new-day-was-filmed~raUqRLJ2/)
19. ["Spider-Man: Brand New Day cinematographer talks shooting with a large-format camera", Digital Camera World](https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/cinema-cameras/neither-of-us-could-quite-put-our-finger-on-it-but-we-both-agreed-there-was-something-special-spider-man-brand-new-day-cinematographer-talks-shooting-with-a-large-format-camera-prototype-lenses-and-comic-book-inspired-luts)
20. ["'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' delivers the most resonant Peter Parker story", Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/07/31/spider-man-brand-new-day-delivers-the-most-resonant-peter-parker-story/)
21. ["'Spider-Man' nets almost $1B in opening weekend", The Week](https://theweek.com/culture-life/film/spider-man-nets-billion-opening-weekend)
22. ["'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' makes it 6 weeks in a row at No. 1", AP News](https://apnews.com/article/0985d43deebda5f5721267b51104ef4c)
23. ["Spider-Man: Brand New Day debuts to a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score", GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/marvel-movies/spider-man-brand-new-day-debuts-to-a-92-percent-rotten-tomatoes-score-becoming-the-highest-rated-mcu-movie-in-5-years/)
24. ["Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – This is the best Spider-Man movie in more than 20 years", The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/spider-man-brand-new-day-review-marvel-b3024297.html)
25. ["Spider-Man Forgets Itself", The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/07/spider-man-brand-new-day-movie-review/688114/)
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