Spider-Man continues his dominance at the box office, a run that at this point has lasted almost the entire month of August.
And now, with summer winding down, the question becomes: How much longer can this Marvel hero continue to grab the No. 1 spot each weekend?
Because he did it again.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is heading toward an estimated $22 million for the weekend, giving the film its fifth consecutive weekend at No. 1 and pushing its domestic total to around $891 million. That puts $900 million within striking distance and continues to showcase Spider-Man as possibly the strongest movie story of the entire year.
Five weeks in, people are STILL going to see this movie.
Coyote vs. Acme finally arrived in theaters this weekend after its bizarre journey from being essentially shelved and nearly disappearing altogether to actually getting a theatrical release. And audiences apparently wanted to see it.
The live-action/animated family film is looking at roughly a $13–14 million opening weekend, putting it into a battle with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, now in its seventh weekend, for second place.
And perhaps even more interesting: people seem to really like Coyote vs. Acme.
The movie currently sits at 95% with critics and 94% with verified audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, which could give this one some legs beyond opening weekend. For a movie that at one point looked like it might never even be released, that’s a pretty remarkable turnaround.
But once again, the weekend belongs to Spider-Man.
Five weekends.
Five victories.
Nearly $900 million domestically.
Summer is almost over, but apparently Spider-Man isn’t ready to give up the box office just yet.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is on the verge of knocking Titanic out of the all-time global box-office top five!!
Over the weekend, Brand New Day racked up another $39 million domestically (and $109 million globally) bringing its totals to $854.9 million domestic ($2.22 billion globally).
That puts Brand New Day just $44 million shy of overtaking James Cameron’s Oscar-winning 1997 hit, something Brand New Day should easily manage in a week or so..
The End of Oak Street, and I have some mixed feelings…
4 out of 10.. we will justify why..
First things first: SPOILERS. Lots of them. We’re basically going to spoil the entire movie here, so read at your own peril.
I went into this movie expecting something closer to a horror comedy. Instead, the comedic value was surprisingly low, the suspense was actually pretty high, and at certain points the whole thing somehow felt more like a really expensive direct-to-streaming movie than a major summer theatrical release.
I will say a plus here: JJ Abrams and company allowed us to really enter a world where it seemed feasible that dinosaurs would attack humans, and how they would be without mercy in their eating habits..
Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor lead the cast, alongside Maisy Stella and Christian Convery. Hathaway has been a star in huge movies.. McGregor as well.. .
JJ Abrams is one of the producers through Bad Robot, the company behind projects connected to Lost, Cloverfield, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible. And the movie was actually written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, the filmmaker behind It Follows. So there are a lot of people involved here who know how to make a movie.
All of that is star-studded..
Which makes some of the decisions in The End of Oak Street even stranger.
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Let’s start with what I liked most: the dinosaurs.
The violence of the T-Rex was fantastic, and there was something genuinely frightening about the quiet surveillance of the Titanboa stalking Anne Hathaway’s character until eventually it is almost right behind her. For real–this may have actually been the scene of the film with tension and silence. It worked perfect..
The dinosaurs, for the most part, looked shockingly good. I actually thought the visual effects were one of the strongest parts of the movie.
Except the dog.
I don’t know what happened with that dog. Maybe they couldn’t put an actual dog through everything required for the scene, but whatever combination of CGI or digital effects they settled on looked amateur compared to the eloquence of the dinosaurs..
And now let’s just cut to the biggest spoiler of all:
They kill Dad.
Of course they kill Dad. They kill Dad in pretty much every movie anymore, so why not this one too?
Except there’s a twist. And if you really want to know the ending, everything ultimately turns out okay.
Happy ending, I guess?
The basic concept is actually pretty interesting. We’re in 1982, meaning there are no cell phones, no internet and very limited ways of figuring out what is happening. When things start going wrong, you’re relying on radios .. and during this movie even the radio isn’t picking anything up, of course.
Eventually we learn that some sort of cosmic event or wormhole has essentially ripped Oak Street out of 1982 and thrown the neighborhood into a prehistoric world.. At least soon to be dead-dad theorizes this and his son agrees while the others doubt.. It turns out it was true. They knew a light was from something, so it HAS TO BE the wormhole..
Despite dad nailing it, the dinosaur also bit his leg off and devoured him in front of his shocked family.. as a dad I guess I take personal offense to this death scene.
There are also a lot of references to Cornell University and Carl Sagan through the daughter, Audrey. Eventually she gets her happy ending too, complete with the Cornell shirt. Of course, before getting there she has to experience the minor inconvenience of watching her entire town get destroyed and her father get eaten by a dinosaur.
College admissions essays should practically write themselves after that. But here’s where I had one of my biggest problems with the movie: the marriage.
Dad is certainly flawed. He’s secretly lost his main job, he’s working side jobs trying to keep the family afloat, he’s hiding things from his wife, and he’s taking a sips of whiskey and apparently reeks of alcohol when dinosaurs attack–mom decides to ask during the end of the world why he drank..
Meanwhile, Mom has apparently written an entire manuscript about leaving him and leaving the family.
And when the basement floods and the manuscript is destroyed, her misery factor goes through the roof.
Lady, DINOSAURS ARE EATING YOUR NEIGHBORS.
Your husband and children could die at any moment. Your entire neighborhood has apparently been sucked through some sort of cosmic wormhole and deposited into prehistoric hell, and we’re having an existential crisis over the manuscript about abandoning the family?
It just felt incredibly self-centered. That’s why I had trouble liking Anne Hathaway’s character for a large portion of the movie.
The film seems to want us to understand the breakdown of this marriage, but sometimes it felt as though the marriage problems mattered more to these people than the impending extinction of everyone around them.
Eventually she gets her redemption, realizes she can save everybody through a phone booth, and things improve considerably for her husband’s fate..
And somehow we’re eventually going to have to explain to Dad why there’s photographic evidence of him standing there giving a thumbs-up in front of two dinosaurs having sex.
Which brings us to THAT scene.
This is a PG-13 movie, so apparently we’re not going to have sex scenes between humans.
The dinosaurs, however?
The dinosaurs got it on. And they didn’t just give us a quick two-second visual joke and move along.
Oh no. We got angles, movement, and noises..
We got considerably more information about prehistoric reproductive behavior than I was expecting when I bought my ticket to the point where I felt somewhat vile afterward.
There are other moments that help redeem the movie. The crazy loon neighbor swinging a gun around and indiscriminately shooting before eventually being attacked by pterodactyls was entertaining. He kind of a Murray-ish role from Stranger Things. So was the surprise attack involving the librarian blowing away the prehistoric alligator-like creatures before they could devour him.
When The End of Oak Street embraces the insanity of its premise, it’s actually great.
It’s when it tries to make the collapsing marriage the emotional center of everything that I started checking out.
And then there’s the son. This poor kid gets the shaft.
The girl he’s apparently in love with ends up being interested in his sister instead. That angle gets thrown into the story too, and considering we’re talking about 1982, good luck to everybody involved navigating that situation once they get home.
But here’s where I think the movie missed its biggest opportunity.
I wanted a crazier ending.
Imagine they finally go through the wormhole except instead of simply restoring everything, Oak Street lands in 2026.
These people walk outside dressed like it’s 1982, completely bewildered by what they’re seeing, while everyone standing around the neighborhood immediately pulls out a cell phone and starts recording them.
Or go even further.
What if they arrived in 2026 and discovered that their older selves already existed there? Suddenly you’ve got this bizarre Back to the Future situation where the younger versions of these people are meeting the lives they were supposed to have.
Or, better yet, give us one final shot.
Everything is fixed.
Everyone is safe.
The portal closes.
Happy music.
Camera pans toward the trees.
ROAR.
One dinosaur made it through.
CUT TO BLACK.
That’s the ending I wanted.
Instead, J.J. Abrams, David Robert Mitchell and company decided to send us home feeling reasonably good about everything. Dad’s okay. The family apparently has another chance. The daughter has her Cornell future. Oak Street survives.
Happiness somehow pervades the bleak landscape of this once dinosaur-infested town.
And that’s fine.
I just wanted something a little more daring.
So all in all, I’m going 4 out of 10 for The End of Oak Street.
It’s not terrible. There are actually some really good suspense sequences, the dinosaurs look surprisingly fantastic, and there are enough completely insane moments to keep you entertained. But the plot is goofy, the emotional center didn’t work for me, some of the characters came across as bizarrely self-absorbed considering DINOSAURS WERE ACTIVELY EATING PEOPLE, and for a movie with this cast, this budget and this much talent behind the scenes, it sometimes strangely felt like something made for streaming.
Still, this is one I’d say you should see once in a theater, because the dinosaur sequences and visual effects benefit from the big screen.
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has amassed a heroic $1.67 billion after just 12 days in theaters, including $1.01 billion internationally and $655 million domestically. It’s the second-fastest movie to reach the billion-dollar mark overseas, behind only 2019’s comic book behemoth “Avengers: Endgame.”
Among its numerous milestones, “Brand New Day” has already become the biggest movie of the year as well as the 12th-highest-grossing release of all time. It’s a testament to the enduring popularity of Peter Parker, as well as the pent-up demand for Tom Holland’s fourth solo adventure as Marvel’s web-slinging hero.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has officially swung into theaters and absolutely rocked the box office in all the right ways. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the latest chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker alongside Zendaya, with Sadie Sink making her Marvel debut as Jean Grey.
The movie is amazing .. the money rolling in is deserved..
You can feel it and see it in the crowds. People of every age and every background are heading to theaters together, and they’re leaving with smiles on their faces. That’s something very few movies accomplish anymore. Most movie audiences feel fragmented, but Spider-Man manages to unite audiences in genuine excitement and joy.
We all need a hero..
The acting is superb, the action sequences are thrilling for a big screen, and the storyline never loses sight of the human element that has always made Spider-Man so relatable. Tom Holland once again proves why he has become the defining Spider-Man of his generation, while Zendaya helps rekindle Peter and MJ’s unforgettable romance but yet somehow forgettable romance (You’d have to see the movie..)
Sadie Sink’s as Jean Grey was handled perfectly, leading to several scenes that were surprisingly emotional.
After seeing Sadie wield incredible powers on the big screen, some couldn’t help but think she almost feels like the version of Eleven we never got on Stranger Things!
One of the movie’s greatest strengths is that you don’t necessarily have to be a Marvel encyclopedia to enjoy it. Casual moviegoers can simply sit back and experience a fantastic superhero adventure, while longtime Marvel fans will have a blast catching the countless Easter eggs and connections sprinkled throughout the film.
If there’s been one recurring criticism, even with its outstanding 98% Rotten Tomatoes score, it’s that the movie is darker and more serious than previous Spider-Man films. BUT OF COURSE IT IS!
The stakes have grown. Peter Parker’s existence is becoming more of a burden than a blessing, and watching him wrestle with anger, loss, responsibility, and maturity makes for a far more compelling hero than simply watching him crack jokes in every scene.
We’re not quite ready to call it the movie of the year just yet, but it may very well be the movie of the summer.
Will it receive Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, or Best Actress? Certainly not. And that’s precisely why so many people have grown frustrated with the Academy Awards or accolades of that nature.. A movie that millions of people genuinely love, one that fills theaters and creates shared memories, will likely be ignored while smaller films seen by only a fraction of the audience receive the industry’s highest honors. But that is besides the point of this opening weekend..
So here’s to Tom Holland and everyone involved in making what may very well be the best Spider-Man movie yet. More than anything, thank you for giving audiences a couple of hours to escape reality and reminding us what going to the movies is supposed to feel like.
Rarely does a movie come around with nearly 100% scores for both critics and audiences on rotten tomatoes.com but we have our film doing that. The Odyssey is being already called the potential movie of the year and all eyes will now be on how much money it makes.
Critics are already calling it the best film of 2026…
It is directed by Christopher Nolan, and based on Homer’s epic poem, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus and Anne Hathaway as Penelope, with an ensemble cast including Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Zendaya. It’s a mythic action epic shot entirely on IMAX film..
It’s also meant to be seen on an IMAX screen this weekend…
The live action MOANA movie this week is getting really awful reviews.. Some of the worst of the year, even.. even worse than Masters of the Universe and Supergirl.. But with those movies, at least we saw some real people–not just the paid pros–liking it.
This time ROTTEN TOMATOES is simply *at this is written* showing off the critic score but has yet to publish a rating when compiling the audience score..
— The Horror Report (@TheHorrorReport) July 11, 2026
Here we are… almost half the weekend into the debut of the live action film, and we have yet to get a compiled score of the audience reviews..
Meanwhile EVIL DEAD seems to be doing strong among audiences..
While insiders are reporting that the film is gaining an A- score among the under 18 crowd, the movie is not expected to impact theaters very well financially..
Every week we fall victim to the same thing that everyone else does. The race at the box office, the summer season and comparing how much money a movie is making. But yet forgetting if a movie’s good or not.
A lot of people who have seen Supergirl don’t like it, a lot of critics lambasted it but some fans on rotten tomatoes are giving it some decent ratings. That being said the movie is going to finish probably under $40 million dollars for opening weekend, and that’s most likely going to be factored as a failure for the film.
In the weeks leading up to this moment, there have been a lot of predictions which continue to downgrade expectations lower each time, and now that the film has been released the real numbers are coming in and it’s not pretty.
But as a fan of Masters of the Universe, it’s not easy living through a box office moment like this.. some true fans will defend the movie till the end while others will probably be realistic in how good it really is. As for the rest of the box office toy story is ruling the day, the film will maintain its number one status and number three will be the return of the Jackass movie.. they’re all a little bit older and they’re relying on nostalgia from 20 years back to prop them up just one more time.
Notable that back rooms and obsession are lingering with still decent money..
We don’t know if they’ll be a Masters of the Universe part 2 but we sure don’t think there will be a second Supergirl…
It’s probably a wrap, theaters are most likely going to stop showing the Masters of the Universe film. At this point, a lot of criticism has been out there from people land-basing the box office showing but, fans responded in kind by attending the film repeatedly over the span of the few weeks has been out.
It didn’t break records as a matter of fact it’s probably lost money but Amazon is playing the long game, and there are still rumors persistent that a sequel involving additional Mattel characters will be coming in the future. Perhaps direct to streaming but fans won’t care.
The challenging thing and sort of unfortunate thing is that this newest incarnation did not reach a new cross-section of fans despite an advertising campaign all over social media. We just never meant to be and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe appears to be a relic stuck in time that only people of a certain generation are responding to..
This review is going to contain spoilers for the movie Disclosure Day. Read at your own peril. If there was ever a film you should see with your most intelligent friends, the ones who can debate whether disclosure of alien life would help or hurt the planet, this is the film.
Some of the ads give away a few notable scenes that appear in the movie, and they make Disclosure Day look a little more frightening than it actually is. But those scenes are still effectively used in the film itself. But if you’re going to this movie thinking you’re seeing some sort of a horror you’re not, you’re more seeing a thriller chase movie with deep questions..
Steven Spielberg is back, giving us the famous camera angles, wide shots, close-ups, and dramatic moments he’s known for. Emily Blunt gives the kind of strong performance we’ve come to expect from her. Couple that with the rest of the cast, a strange and somewhat bizarre CGI alien at the end, and we have Disclosure Day.
And it’s arriving at a weird time.
Disclosure seems to be slowly happening in the real world, as UFO files continue to be released by the government. At the same time, people are actively debating whether the whole thing is just a big fake distraction from “the real agenda” .. and you can choose whichever real agenda you think it’s distracting us from.
But in this movie, the world is not distracted by something insignificant. World War III has begun, and the mass media in Disclosure Day is covering it 24/7.
That is, until a rogue group of contracted government workers decides to sneak evidence from the UFO files and reveal it to the entire planet.
The race is on between the good guys and the bad guys.. and you can take your pick as to which is which .. until the climactic ending, when we as a civilization are forced to pause our wars and confront something much deeper and more profound.
The positives here are the acting, the score, the writing, and the film itself.
The negatives could also be the acting, the score, the writing, and the film itself.
This movie is surprisingly divisive. In fact, the audience I saw it with seemed split right down the middle. A few people clapped. Others sighed. It perfectly fits the divided Rotten Tomatoes score currently online. Even the critics seem divided. It’s not getting the roaring praise that other Spielberg films have received, and it’s not dominating the box office the way it probably would have 25 years ago with Spielberg’s name attached.
That alone shows how much things have changed. Generationally speaking, this year’s horror movies — Obsession and Backrooms — have shown younger directors becoming more popular with younger audiences than Spielberg himself. But the truth is, Disclosure Day is good. Maybe not great, but good. And more than that, it feels significant. It feels important.
A lot of us conspiracy-minded folks have wondered for a long time whether Steven Spielberg knew something. And if he doesn’t, he’s very good at faking it.
But the movie matters not just because of the acting, the filmmaking, or the spectacle. It matters because of the questions it asks and, more importantly, the questions it refuses to answer.
Disclosure Day may not be Spielberg’s greatest film. But it is one of his most interesting in years. And at this moment in history, that might be enough to spawn an important debate at America’s 250th..
