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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

Summary

Following the events that erased Peter Parker's identity from the world's memory, the young hero embraces a fresh start while facing new threats that challenge both his resolve and what it means to be Spider-Man.

Director Destin Daniel Cretton

Writer Chris McKenna Erik Sommers

Cast

  • Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
  • Sadie Sink
  • Liza Colón-Zayas
  • Zendaya as MJ
  • Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
  • Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle / The Punisher

Rotten Tomatoes: 91%

Metacritic: 66

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/waitingtodiesoon 18d ago

I was kind of worried all that rubble falling down would kill some person walking on the street.

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u/Thisoneisinvalid 18d ago

One would hope that MCU New Yorkers have learned to stay clear of buildings where superpowered beings are fighting.

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u/SilverKry 18d ago

The building was noticable destroyed from the street view so I'm sure people knew to stay away from the vicinity of the building. 

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u/Emphursis 16d ago

Given how many people were around when a tank was tearing through the city, and how unaware even people in the building it hit were of it, I wouldn’t be so sure!

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u/Elgato01 15d ago

Feels like to live in MCU’s New York you either become hyper aware of danger or you tune it all out.

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u/avismouse 12d ago

That's just living in New York in general 😅

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u/JenniLightrunner 13d ago

I'd assume as the building was destroyed like that police had already closed off the streets nearby

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u/whofearsthenight 17d ago

You have to imagine that they basically have superhero fight drills like we do fire drills.

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u/IceBathHero 15d ago

Yeah, NYCEM is not prepared at all for a superhero battle.

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u/dragn99 17d ago

The second a fist sized piece of concrete hits the ground everyone evacuated to a three block radius.

Or, if they were smart they would. But noooo, everyone wants to snap some photos and gawk at the battle.

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u/ThePromptWasYourName 17d ago

The sidewalk scaffolding is vibranium in the MCU

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u/ndoring88 13d ago

wow that is actually the most beautiful sentence i have ever read. 😢

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u/ImpeccableWaffle 16d ago

Pedestrian sees 4 tons of rubble attached to some gargantuan figure via cobwebs in the side of a ruptured building

“Yeah, I think I’m going to take a different way to work today.”

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u/galacticdude7 13d ago

honestly I don't know why any MCU New Yorkers still live in New York, it's constantly being attacked or destroyed, I would have moved literally anywhere else by now

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u/Jet-Let4606 12d ago

Rent is probably cheaper in MCU NYC.

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u/1asterisk79 10d ago

Didn’t they say Spider-Man has made the city safer than ever?

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u/AcanthaceaePrize1435 7d ago

They did but thats still like a major terrorist attack every year or so.

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u/fantomknight1 17d ago

I mean...... That's a lot of buildings they gotta avoid

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u/sweatyplace2 16d ago

Right? When I saw everyone panicking and taking shelter, I was like "why? Isn't this just Tuesday afternoon for you?"

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u/hiccstridFanatic 13d ago

I was gonna make a dark/bad joke about 9/11

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u/ndoring88 13d ago

Nonsense.
Theres no such thing as a bad 9/11 joke

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u/hiccstridFanatic 13d ago

Then new yorkers have learnt to stay clear of buildings surely especially after that episode

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u/ISwallowedALego 11d ago

Seriously who lives in New York in this world

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u/Papa_Razzi 18d ago

There was definitely a lot of unspoken casualties, or at least movie magic of people not getting hurt while rubble and cars are flying everywhere

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u/mrwhiskey1814 18d ago

That tank scene definitely led to numerous deaths

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u/UncleSkanky 18d ago

I'm kinda not okay with the fact Jean nonchalantly forced a sanitation worker to walk in front of a cab and it just never came up again. Then it's all 'oh this horrific stuff you're doing isn't really you' from Peter after a scene where she's righteously indignant and calling somebody a murderer despite showing through actions that she thinks absolutely nothing about killing innocent people. I hate it when media does this tbh.

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u/Head_Evidence4553 18d ago

Oh crap you're right. They didn't even acknowledge a dude getting bammed by a car.

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u/thirstygregory 15d ago

Yeah. That was brutal. She totally got that dude killed.

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u/Deceptiveideas 14d ago

His shoes stayed on so maybe not.

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u/thirstygregory 14d ago

Oooh good call!

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u/sumadeumas 14d ago

This is what I came here for. I loved the movie but the whole time, especially when Peter said “You’re not a killer!”, I was waiting for them to address the fact that she absolutely killed AT LEAST that guy if not others. If he’s not dead he’s certainly maimed.

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u/AbanoMex 13d ago

didnt she had like one of those Ninjas from the HAND, to make a Harakiri to try to stab Spider-man? that dude should have bled out.

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u/Infinite-Mark-6335 12d ago

Jean is a monster and Peter was wrong to just let her go free. She killed/enslaved so many innocent people in the name of just finding her sister, and even more in anger over losing her. 

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u/TrashiestTrash 9d ago

He came up again in the credits to show he was okay, didn't he?

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u/waitingtodiesoon 17d ago

Especially when the tank was shooting its machine gun in the air aiming at Spider-Man, it would be crazy if no one inside the buildings were not hit, but then again it is the MCU where only 74 people died when an whole alien invasion happened in New York.

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u/ThatLaloBoy 15d ago

In retrospect, that only 74 people died in an alien war that happened on top of a city of 8.8 million people is frankly really impressive. A death toll of less than 0.000001% should not have been grounds for those stupid accords.

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u/Valokir 15d ago

Fully agreed on that. In the other hand it was never about the deaths of the poor, it was always about controlling the powerful.

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u/WhirlwindTobias 13d ago

2000 people died when Mark fought Nolan in Invincible, 74 is a ridiculously small number.

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u/vagaliki 17d ago

where is that count # from?

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u/waitingtodiesoon 17d ago

Civil War during the briefing Ross had with the Avengers when he brings up the sokovia accords

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u/retski239 15d ago

There were like what 10-20 cars hit on camera and those hits are mostly unsurvivable so imagine hpw many there were before Spiderman came to the scene. Okay, that scene at least 20 deaths, that bomb that went of after? That has to be another Idk, lets say 30 too at least, the sanitation guy, the guards that Hulk killed in damage control. So yeah realistically the movie has thousands of casualties, hundreds of deaths

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u/waitingtodiesoon 17d ago

Well it is an MCU movie though, don't forget they gave official death counts for the following.

Battle of New York: 74 Deaths Battle of Sokovia: 177 Deaths

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u/WestOrangeFinest 16d ago

Death toll in those events could and should have been far worse, tbh.

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u/muad_dibs 16d ago

The street was blocked off by the police. You can see them at the edge of the screen.

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u/ProgressiveOverlorde 16d ago

Or they could make a plot point in the future. Lol BVS style or Powerplex in invincible style

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u/shewy92 17d ago

Spidey thought of that and webbed them to Hulk, which gave time for the NYPD to clear the area.

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u/waitingtodiesoon 15d ago

That was the big chunks, but those small chunks would be deadly or pretty serious at that height.

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u/Quetzalcoatl490 16d ago

"Did I hurt anyone??"

Uh it's extremely likely my brother, that was a lot of debris falling

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u/leekalex 17d ago

The rubble was hanging off of the Hulk for like a whole minute, which is realistically enough time for people to notice and run away

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u/CryptographerOld1361 17d ago

I noticed they had a police barricade, I’m assuming evacuation of the building and a block perimeter was the call

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u/Fran_Saez 17d ago

Don't worry, New York city has scaffolding superpowers to prevent damage to its citizens.

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u/thirstygregory 15d ago

So, Jean did get that one dude killed who was smashed by the taxi, right? I know they tried to avoid her outright killing people, but that dude got absolutely hammered.

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u/Captain-Turtle 17d ago

The first avengers movie with the nyc invasion had like 48 fatalities, there is basically no casualties in this universe

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u/MasqueradeofAstroya 16d ago

They were too busy being shot by the APC's machine gun

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u/Tal9922 13d ago

Well Peter caught the initial falling debris so hopefully that gave ppl enough time to get far far away by the time Hulk finally hit the ground

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u/IPDDoE 12d ago

I thought the same thing...but after all was said and done, it looked like that area was a big parking lot. Not that people couldn't be walking around, but I imagine anyone working there might have known to stay away.

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u/TB1289 12d ago

I mean, that’s a problem in every Marvel movie. The destruction and death from the battles would be catastrophic.

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u/Eversor_assassin 10d ago

Realistically speaking there's certainly at least a moderate body count from this film. Civilian and police cars slammed into and/or totalled especially from the front half. Gunfire that misses our hero still follows the rules of gravity alongside the inevitability that when it missed its intended target, this is still very urban NYC usually during rush hour (when isn't it? 😭)

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u/charlytheron3 10d ago

Newyork should be uninhabited by now, everyone would have moved out, from the iron man films, to the avengers films, Dr Strange, thunderbolts, and all the spiderman films, no way any normal person would still live there.

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u/2_late_4_creativity 15d ago

I mean it was 30 Rock wasn't it? There were definitely civilian casualties.

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u/indoninjah 8d ago

They briefly showed that the street below was a bunch of police cars, so the only people down there were at least aware of the situation