Sony Pictures owns the top two slots at the domestic box office this weekend, with Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day holding first place in its fourth frame and Blumhouse’s Insidious: Out of the Further opening in second. The double feature gives the Culver City lot a combined $58 million from just two titles, a sharp reversal from the same corridor a year ago when a $65 million adult-skewing caper collapsed to a $19 million domestic finish.

The numbers behind the double feature

Brand New Day added $35 million at 4,006 sites in its fourth weekend, pushing its running cume to $845.4 million by Sunday. That leaves it $12.9 million shy of Avengers: Endgame’s $858.3 million domestic total, though the Russo brothers’ title returns to theaters in September. Endgame still leads Holland’s worldwide tally at $2.7 billion. Insidious 6 debuted to $23 million at 3,303 theaters, the fifth time the franchise has opened north of $20 million. The only entry below that threshold remains the 2010 original at $13.2 million.

A year of contrast for the studio

Twelve months ago Sony bet $65 million before prints and advertising on Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing. It opened to $7.8 million and expired at $33.2 million global. This weekend the studio fields a Marvel tentpole marching toward the second-highest domestic gross ever and a horror sequel whose pre-release social universe reached 282.2 million followers across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube, well above the 182 million for 2023’s Insidious: Red Door and the 195 million for January’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

The horror franchise keeps climbing

Thursday previews for Out of the Further came in at $3 million, below Red Door’s $5 million preview haul that preceded a $33 million opening. The weekend outlook had been $23 million to $27 million; the result lands at the floor. Jacob Chase wrote and directed the sixth chapter, which carries a PG-13 rating. The franchise has now opened above $20 million five times in six attempts.

Imax splits and the rest of the top five

Universal’s The Odyssey held in its sixth frame with $17.7 million at 3,091 screens, down 25 percent, for a $537.2 million cume. Imax screens are split between Odyssey and Brand New Day, while premium large formats are divided between Insidious 6 and the Spider-Man title. Fourth place goes to PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie with $9.25 million in its second weekend, a 55 percent drop to a $35.5 million cume. Fifth is too close to call between Warner Bros.’ The End of Oak Street at $8 million (down 62 percent, $36.9 million cume) and Lionsgate’s Mutiny, the Jason Statham R-rated thriller tracking $7 million to $9 million on a $15 million U.S. acquisition cost. Mutiny’s start bests Statham’s Shelter ($5.5 million) and edges Crank 2 ($6.9 million in 2009). Black Bear’s Spa Weekend eyes a $3 million debut at 2,009 sites.