02/08/2026
🕷 Massive queues outside Japanese cinemas for IMAX screenings
The release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day is drawing huge crowds over in Japan. Lines lasting several hours have popped up outside heaps of cinemas—especially for those midnight IMAX sessions—with people desperate to score tickets for the very first screenings! 🔥
👇 Since The Odyssey hasn't hit Japanese theatres yet, the hype for Spidey on the massive IMAX screens is so real that fans are spending best part of the day waiting in line just to catch it as soon as it drops.
🗣 Would you be keen to wait hours just to see a movie in IMAX on opening day?
$927 million worldwide at the box office in a single weekend
Sony Pictures is absolute stoked 💵💵💵💵
Merch & Toys: Disney pockets 100% of the cash from Spider-Man toys, clothes, and merchandise. Sony gets zip.
Solo Spider-Man Movies: Sony covers 75% of the production budget and takes home 75% of the box-office takings. Disney funds 25% of the budget and takes a 25% cut of the box office.
Avengers: Doomsday, set to drop late this year, isn't generating anywhere near the same hype as the web-slinger and might not even catch up to "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" by the end of its theatrical run.
Fans are pretty split after that first teaser for "Avengers: Doomsday" dropped.
