Spider-Man: Brand New Day has turned into one of the largest box office runs in film history, and Sony Pictures reported the effect on its earnings on 4 November. The film has grossed $2.52 billion worldwide, and Sony Pictures Entertainment said its net income rose 527 percent year over year to $488 million in the quarter ended 30 September. Revenue at the division rose 37 percent to $3.23 billion.
The theatrical business supplied almost all of the gain. Sony said theatrical revenue reached $1.28 billion, up more than 1,100 percent from the same quarter a year earlier. Spider-Man: Brand New Day supplied most of that total, with Resident Evil adding $400 million worldwide after its September release. The film now is Sony Pictures’ highest grossing release ever, and the third highest grossing film of all time before adjusting for inflation, behind only Avengers: Endgame and Avatar.
How Spider-Man: Brand New Day drove the quarter
The film opened in theatres on 31 July and took $360 million in North America on its opening weekend, a record start for the series. Through 30 September it had collected $952 million in North America and $1.548 billion overseas, according to figures cited in reporting on the results. Spider-Man: Brand New Day was the second fastest film ever to reach $2 billion worldwide, behind only Avengers: Endgame.
Sony Pictures Entertainment posted operating income of $581 million for the three months ended 30 September, up from $93 million in the same period of 2025. The division’s adjusted operating income before depreciation and amortisation rose to $670.4 million from $183 million a year earlier. Sony chief financial officer Lin Tao described the result as a record high operating income for the second quarter, according to Deadline.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day against the rest of Sony
The wider Sony group also reported a strong quarter. Revenue rose 10 percent to 3.429 trillion yen, or $21.5 billion, and net income rose 44 percent to 450 billion yen, or $2.8 billion. The PlayStation business contributed to the gain alongside the film division, and Sony raised its full year profit outlook by 9 percent. The Pictures segment forecast was lifted by 50 billion yen to 200 billion yen.
Not every part of the film division grew. Television revenue fell 45 percent year over year to $483 million, a drop that the theatrical result more than covered. Sony’s shares closed up 7 percent ahead of the earnings release on Thursday, 5 November.
What comes next for Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Spider-Man: Brand New Day was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton from a script that launches a new trilogy for Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, according to producer Amy Pascal. Holland stars with Zendaya and Jacob Batalon, and the three leads drew praise from Tom Rothman, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group. Rothman told TheWrap after the opening weekend that the film was about human connection and the power of it, and that the emotional centre of the story, rather than effects alone, connected with audiences.
Sony Group’s operating income rose 45 percent to 622.3 billion yen, or about $3.9 billion, on revenue of 3.43 trillion yen, up 10 percent. The music and imaging and sensing divisions also received upgrades to their forecasts alongside the Pictures segment. The result shows how far one theatrical release can carry a quarter when it reaches the top of the all time chart.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day was made on a reported production budget of $225 million. The worldwide total of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, $2.52 billion, leaves it behind only the original Avatar and Avengers: Endgame on the all time chart, and its North American total was closing in on $959 million in the days after the quarter ended. Sony has not announced a date for the next film in the trilogy, and the studio’s raised forecast for the year rests in part on the home entertainment release that follows the cinema run.