The late-August domestic box office proved that summer blockbuster season is far from over. Sony Pictures commanded the top two spots on the charts this weekend, led by the unstoppable Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which retained the crown for a fourth consecutive week.
- Spider-Man’s Continued Dominance: Spider-Man: Brand New Day generated $39 million across 4,006 theaters, dipping 45%. That brings its total domestic tally to a towering $854.9 million, putting it on the threshold of surpassing Avengers: Endgame ($858.3 million) to become the highest-grossing Marvel movie in North American history.
- Scaring Up Second Place: Sony also grabbed second place with the launch of horror sequel Insidious: Out of the Further, which earned $25.3 million from 3,303 locations with a strong $7,660 per-theater average.
- Nolan’s Epic Legs: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey held steady at No. 3, bringing in $19.5 million. The Universal epic slipped just 17% in its sixth week, bringing its cumulative domestic total to $539 million.
Weekend Top 10 Summary (August 21–23, 2026)
| Rank | Title | Weekend Total |
| 1 | Spider-Man: Brand New Day | $39,000,000 |
| 2 | Insidious: Out of the Further | $25,300,000 |
| 3 | The Odyssey | $19,500,000 |
| 4 | PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie | $9,100,000 |
| 5 | The End of Oak Street | $9,000,000 |
| 6 | Mutiny | $7,500,000 |
| 7 | Tony | $5,011,611 |
| 8 | The Fast and the Furious (2001) | $3,100,000 |
| 9 | Spa Weekend | $3,050,000 |
| 10 | Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | $1,936,918 |
Mid-Tier Moves & Indie Surge
Beyond the top trio, family audiences gave Paramount’s PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie fourth place with $9.1 million, while Warner Bros.’ The End of Oak Street followed closely behind in fifth with $9 million. Lionsgate’s action-thriller Mutiny, starring Jason Statham, debuted at No. 6 with $7.5 million.
Indie cinema saw standout performances this frame. A24’s Tony jumped 576% up the charts to seventh place after expanding its theater count, taking in $5.01 million. Meanwhile, MUBI’s indie sleeper Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma surged 113% to crack the top 10 with $1.93 million. Universal also score a nostalgia hit, as a 25th-anniversary re-release of 2001’s The Fast and the Furious grossed $3.1 million across 1,561 screens.
