Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | September 7, 2026
Happy Labour Day weekend, my American friends. It seems that many of you went to the cinema to celebrate. Not by seeing any new releases, but with another rewatch of the Tom Holland-Zendaya double bill blockbuster event of 2026.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is still in the top spot at the box office after six weeks. Its $18 million intake from the past weekend helped to bring its domestic gross past the $900 million mark. To be specific, it’s currently at *deep breath* $917,762,495. That was enough for it to overtake Avatar: The Way of Water to become the third highest-grossing film of all time. To pass Avengers: Endgame, it’ll need another $390 million or so. Seems unlikely but hey, this franchise has proven me wrong before.
Don’t sleep on The Odyssey either. It reclaimed the number two spot in its eighth week of release, with a domestic gross of over $584.7 million. It’s now the 14th highest grossing film ever, jumping over The Avengers, and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. After this year, Tom and Zendaya can probably command the biggest paydays in the business, and we haven’t even gotten to the Avengers: Doomsday/Dune: Part 3 match-up of Christmas.
At number four is By Any Means, a biopic starring Marky Mark as a mafia hitman turned FBI informant who was called in to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in Mississippi in the ’60s. Huh. Okay, sure, why not? That seems to have been audiences’ reactions, as it only landed at number four with $7.4 million from 2,903 locations.
Pixar’s Cars turned 20 this Summer. Do you also spend too much time thinking about the set-up of a universe where everyone is a car? Why is the Pope a car but also in a Popemobile?! This franchise is still a big deal for Pixar, especially in the theme parks, and so it did solid business with its anniversary re-release, landing at number six with $6.1 million.
For those looking for a classic animated film with more mutations and viscera, Akira was back in theatres, and it earned $2.67 million from only 787 cinemas. That was enough for it to beat Fall 2: Deadpoint, which only earned $2.3 million from 1,704 places. See, people like it when you don’t use AI. The action thriller Onslaught, starring Dan Stevens, was behind that, with $1,883,584.
In limited release news: Chronovisor, a sci-fi thriller about a woman who becomes obsessed with the myth of an occult device, earned $20,316 from one location; the documentary The Work in Progress took in $6,900; and Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers, a documentary about Jimmy Buffett’s 1970s Coral Reefer Band, brought in $5,220.
This coming week sees the release of spooky sequel Practical Magic 2, historical action The Uprising, and the latest Liam Neeson action schlock, The Fix.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
