Spider-Man Keeps Labor Day No. 1 as Coyote vs. Acme Holds Its Ground

Spider-Man: Brand New Day remained No. 1 over the Labor Day weekend, extending its run at the top of the domestic box office and moving within striking distance of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Deadline reported a projected four-day holiday gross of about $22 million, taking Sony and Marvel’s film to roughly $922 million in North America by Monday, September 7, 2026. Coyote vs. Acme, meanwhile, held firm in its second weekend, with Ketchup Entertainment’s release tracking toward $14.5 million over four days and a $37 million domestic total. For moviegoers, the holiday frame offered a useful reminder: a blockbuster can chase history while a once-shelved mid-budget comedy quietly builds an audience beside it.

Spider-Man’s sixth weekend keeps the record in sight

Brand New Day’s latest win is impressive because Labor Day is rarely treated as a major theatrical launch window. Studios often fill the holiday with leftovers. Deadline noted that the exception in recent years was 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which still owns the holiday’s best opening with $94.6 million.

Spider-Man did not need a splashy debut this weekend. It needed another sturdy hold. The film earned $3.86 million Friday, down 30 percent from the previous Friday, and was projected at $17.25 million for three days before the four-day estimate reached $22 million. Its sixth weekend at No. 1 would give it a remarkable stretch of control over the domestic chart.

The larger target is The Force Awakens’ $936.6 million domestic total. Hollywood Outbreak reported that Brand New Day passed $900 million in 36 days, the fastest film ever to reach that mark domestically. If the Labor Day estimate lands, Spider-Man would sit about $14 million away from the Star Wars figure. Deadline’s reporting put the gap at less than $16 million by the end of Monday.

That pace also places the film inside a bigger summer story. Rentrak had the May 1–September 3 domestic marketplace at $4.643 billion, with the season potentially reaching $4.76 billion. The previous record, set in 2013, was $4.756 billion. Deadline cautioned that the final number could still finish $8 million to $23 million below that mark, despite the longer 2026 summer—130 days compared with 123 in 2013.

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Coyote vs. Acme refuses the weekend-two drop

Coyote vs. Acme’s numbers are less historic, but they may be more revealing about how a theatrical release can recover from a strange path to the screen. Warner Bros. shelved the animated comedy before Ketchup Entertainment brought it to cinemas. In its second weekend, it expanded to 3,727 theaters and earned $2.6 million Friday, a 51 percent drop from its previous Friday. Deadline projected $11.5 million over three days and $14.5 million over four, bringing the running total to about $37 million.