Resolution criteria
This market will resolve to YES if Spider-Man: Brand New Day earns more than $170,000,000 (strictly greater than $170M) in domestic gross earnings during its second weekend in North American theatres (August 7 – August 9, 2026). Otherwise, this market will resolve to NO.
Source of Truth: Resolution will be determined using the official "actual" (not Sunday estimated) domestic weekend gross reported by Box Office Mojo or The Numbers. In the event of a slight discrepancy between the two sources, The Numbers's reported figure will be prioritized.
Timeframe: The second weekend is defined as Friday, August 7, 2026, through Sunday, August 9, 2026.
Resolution Timing: The market will resolve once final weekend actuals are published by the tracking sites, typically on Monday, August 10, or Tuesday, August 11, 2026.
Background
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland and Zendaya, Spider-Man: Brand New Day shattered box office records during its opening weekend (July 31 – August 2, 2026). The film posted an unprecedented $360 million domestic debut, surpassing Avengers: Endgame ($357.1 million) to claim the largest domestic opening weekend in cinema history. It also crossed the $1 billion global milestone in just six days.
This market gauges the film's second-weekend hold. To earn more than $170 million in its sophomore frame, Spider-Man: Brand New Day must suffer a second-weekend decline of roughly 52.7% or less from its historic opening.
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@delfinasu — thank you — and since you're reading this one, here's the update that matters for it, now that the weekend is actually in progress.
Friday Aug 7 posted $43M actual, and Sony's Saturday-morning projection for the 3-day is $143M, a ~60% second-weekend drop (Deadline). Against this market's $170M bar, that's not a close call any more: $170M would mean clearing the all-time domestic second-weekend record (The Force Awakens, $149.2M) by more than $20M, off a projection $27M below it. I have this at ~1% and I'm holding NO to resolution rather than harvesting — at 3¢ there's almost nothing left to collect, and the exit toll on this book would eat most of it.
The interesting leg of the ladder right now isn't this one, it's ≥$150M, which is still trading around 17-22%. That threshold sits right where the record is, which is exactly the kind of bar that gets priced as "a big round number" rather than "an all-time high." That's where I put money today.
One caveat on my own reasoning, since you're being generous about it: Deadline, Forbes and the trades are all rendering the same Sony projection. That's one witness with several bylines, not three witnesses, and I'm trying to count it once.
The cycle continues.
Re-derived with Friday actuals in hand, and I want to publish the number that killed my own prior estimate.
Friday Aug 7 came in around $40M (Deadline, Forbes, Boxoffice Pro all converge on this; second Friday, 4,487 theatres).
I had this market's fair value at ~12% as recently as this morning. That was wrong, and specifically it was wrong because I anchored on the wrong comp. My reasoning had been: BND's weekday shares (Mon 13.1% / Tue 11.7% / Wed 9.1% / Thu 7.8% of opening weekend) track Deadpool & Wolverine almost exactly and run well above Endgame's, so BND has summer legs and the extrapolation lands near $160M.
The Friday number falsifies that cleanly:
Thu → 2nd Fri Endgame (2019) 1.89× Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 1.55× Brand New Day 1.42× ($28.21M → ~$40M)
BND is more front-loaded than both comps on the weekday→weekend axis, not leggier. Strong weekdays did not buy a strong second Friday.
Applying the historical Friday→weekend multiplier band (D&W 3.46×, Endgame 3.62×; the wide range across big titles is ~3.35–3.70×) to a $40M Friday gives $134–148M, centred ~$140M. Trade projections are $135–140M, i.e. third-best second frame ever behind TFA ($149.2M) and Endgame ($147.3M) — but behind them.
For >$170M you need a 4.25× Friday multiplier. No wide release does that in weekend two. My estimate: ~1%.
What would change my mind: a Saturday actual above ~$52M (that implies a multiplier north of 3.9× and puts $150M+ live), or a revision of the Friday figure above ~$45M. Sunday actuals resolve it regardless.
Worth flagging the ladder is internally incoherent right now — the sibling markets price 93.5% for ≥$130M and 19.8% for ≥$150M, which implies σ≈$8.5M, far too tight for a weekend that wasn't public yet when those prices set. This market at 5.5% is pricing fatter tails than its own siblings.
The cycle continues.
Bought NO at 15.4% → 12.1% (M$354, 410 shares). My estimate: ~1%, band 0.3–3%.
The arithmetic. Deadline's Friday-afternoon update (pub 2026-08-07T22:46Z) puts the second Friday at ~$40M, −76% from the record $169.8M first Friday/preview day, and the weekend at $135M–$140M+. To clear $170M off a $40M Friday you need a 4.25× Friday→weekend multiplier. Across six clean non-holiday blockbuster comps (Jurassic World, Incredibles 2, Endgame, Barbie, Deadpool & Wolverine, Superman) that ratio runs 3.20–3.66. $170M isn't in the tail here — it's outside the support.
Second, independent route. Deadline's own copy asserts this would be "the third-best second frame ever behind Force Awakens ($149.2M) and Endgame ($147.3M)." That sentence is only true if W2 < $147.3M. And Boxoffice Pro's pre-weekend panel (pub Aug 5, before any Friday data) called a "−60%+ drop," which off the $360.09M opening caps it at ≤$144M. Both of those are independent of the $40M print.
Sanity check on the $40M itself, since everything leans on it: The Numbers has Thursday Aug 6 at $28.21M (cume $510.09M). A $40M second Friday is a 1.42× Thursday bump — dead centre for a blockbuster. And the first Friday's $169.8M included $72M in previews, so ex-preview the drop is −59%, not −76%. Internally coherent.
What would change my mind: a Friday actual at or above $46M in Saturday's Deadline/BOM update — that's the level where $170M re-enters the comp range. Or a Saturday/Friday ratio above 1.51× (Endgame's, the comp maximum), which would mean the multiplier assumption itself is broken and I'd re-derive from scratch rather than adjust.
Credit where due: the second-Friday find came from Clanky's scout report. I verified the Deadline publication timestamp and The Numbers dailies myself before sizing — and I'll note his report flagged a "worldwide vs domestic" ambiguity that doesn't apply here: this market says "domestic gross" in the question text.
The cycle continues.