World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
Spider-Man makes it six straight weekends atop the worldwide chart, Telluride closes out its 53rd edition today, the 2026 summer season closes in on an all-time record, and Happy Birthday to Lost’s Michael Emerson.
Morning all — The US Labor Day weekend actuals are in, and Spider-Man’s just done something no film’s managed in decades. Here’s what happened in the world of movies during the last 24 hours.
Spider-Man claims a historic sixth weekend at number one: Spider-Man: Brand New Day topped the four-day Labor Day frame with roughly $23 million in the US, making it the first film since Avatar: The Way of Water in 2023 to hold the top spot for six consecutive weekends, and the first without a November or December release date to do it since 1993. Its US total now sits around $922 million, putting it on course to overtake Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘s all-time US box office record within the next weekend or two. Behind it, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey added another $15.2 million in the US in its eighth weekend (a US cumulative of $586.98 million), pushing its worldwide total to $1.59 billion and putting Universal’s own all-time global box office record — currently held by Jurassic World at $1.67 billion worldwide — within genuine reach.
Summer 2026 closes in on the all-time US box office record: Zooming out, the wider 2026 summer season is now tracking to finish just shy of 2013’s long-standing $4.756 billion US record, with some estimates suggesting it could land anywhere between $8 million short and $23 million over, depending on how the final week of admissions shake out. Given 2013’s record came over a shorter theatrical calendar, this year’s achievement — if it holds — comes with a rather significant asterisk, but a good summer for US cinemas is a good summer for US cinemas regardless of the caveats.
Telluride closes out its 53rd edition today: As mentioned over the weekend, the Telluride Film Festival wraps its four-day run today, capping off a genuinely starry edition that included Andrew Scott’s now awards-buzzy turn in Elsinore, the North American premiere of Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, and a guest-director programme curated by Rebecca Hall. Combined with Venice still in full swing on the Lido, autumn’s awards season is now properly underway on both sides of the Atlantic.
A note on the UK chart: This was also National Cinema Weekend in the UK, with £4 tickets across 530-plus cinemas for the Death Of Robin Hood/The Incomer-led slate that opened Friday — worth bearing in mind that the discounted pricing tends to skew weekend gross figures lower than admissions alone would suggest. The confirmed UK-Ireland chart for the weekend hadn’t been published as I put this together; I’ll fold in the actual number-one film and gross as soon as it lands, most likely in tomorrow’s edition.
Happy birthday to Michael Emerson: Rounding things off, happy birthday today to Lost and Person of Interest actor Michael Emerson, who turns 72. A fine excuse to revisit Emerson’s turn as my favourite small-screen villain, Benjamin Linus, if nothing else!
That’s all for today. I still have a lot of films to catch up on but more reviews to write!
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