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“Spider Man” Box Office Boffo: Crosses $2 Billion Worldwide, $800 Million US Tomorrow, While “CatVideoFest2026” Stars Choose Awards Cat-egories

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You’d think by now anyone who wanted to see “Brand New Day” would have seen it a couple of times.

But it never ends.

Here’s where things stand: the new “Spider Man” movie crosses the $2 billion mark worldwide today.

Tomorrow your friendly neighborhood Spider Man hits the $800 million mark, making it the 4th highest domestic box office gross over.

On Tuesday, this Spider Man passes its predecessor, “No Way Home,” and becomes number 3.

At this rate, “Brand New Day” should finish as the 2nd highest grossing US movie, passing “Avengers: Endgame” before it’s done.

Can it go to number 1? Maybe. That’s a way’s off from now at $936.5 million for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

This has all gotten way out of hand. Maybe with all this dough, Sony can put some muscle into the budget for Sony Pictures Classics. It would be a shame if it just all went to the executive suite!

Also at the box office: “The Odyssey” crossed the $500 million line. And “CatVideoFest2026” has gotten up to $800,000. I’m told that all the cats have agreed to go into the supporting cat-egory during awards season!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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