Tom Holland’s $1.1B Superhero Blockbuster Officially Becomes a Free Streaming Sensation

Published Oct 10, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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How will 2026 in film be remembered? Big surprise hits such as Obsession and ambitious critical darlings like Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey are sure to prove lasting, but no film is set to define 2026 better than Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The return of Tom Holland's Friendly Neighborhood Spidey was always likely to prove a financial success, but no one could've predicted quite how record-breaking the success would be.

After starting box office life with the biggest opening weekend in domestic history and the biggest first-week haul of all time, Brand New Day quickly became the second-fastest film to reach the $1 billion mark worldwide, and the records didn't stop there. Eventually, the film overtook Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing film of all time domestically, before it finally began its descent down the box office charts.

As the so-called "best Spidey adventure in 20 years," Brand New Day once again proved just how enduring the Spider-Man character is. Inspired by the success of this summer's blockbuster, a previous entry in Holland's run of Spidey movies has become a hit on a surprise streaming platform. At the time of writing, 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home is one of the ten most-streamed movies on free streamer Tubi in the U.S. Far From Home was a big hit in its own right at the end of the 2010s, earning over $1.1 billion worldwide against a budget of $160 million. Jon Watts returned to direct the film following his work on Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which MCU Villain Do You Align With? Killmonger · Namor · Zemo · Thanos

Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you do about something unfair, how long you will wait for what you want, who you are really loyal to, how easily you let a thing go. Answer them and we will tell you which one of these four you have more in common with than you would like. Every one of them thinks they are the reasonable person in the room.

🐆Killmonger(Black Panther)

🔱Namor(Wakanda Forever)

🎭Zemo(Civil War)

🧤Thanos(Infinity War)

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How do you react to something you think is unfair? All four of these men started here.

ALoudly, and I want the whole thing torn down. BI protect whoever it hurt, first and fast. CI say nothing, and I start planning. DI look for why it keeps happening at all.

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How long will you wait for something you want? Patience separates these four more than anything else.

ANot long, since I have waited long enough already. BAs long as my people stay safe meanwhile. CYears, if years are what it takes. DTime does not really come into it.

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Who are you actually loyal to? Answer for the real one, not the polite one.

AThe people nobody else turned up for. BMy own, and nobody outside that. COne person, and they are already gone. DAn idea, rather than any group of people.

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How do you win an argument? Everybody has one method and uses it every time.

ABy being angrier and more right. BBy making the cost of disagreeing obvious. CBy letting them talk until they trip over something. DBy explaining it until they run out of objections.

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How easily do you let something go? This is the question that makes villains out of people.

AI do not, and I can tell you exactly why. BOnce whoever caused it stops being a threat. CWhen the balance is settled, and not before. DInstantly, because it was never personal.

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What do you think about breaking the rules? Nobody on this list has ever felt guilty about it.

AThey were written by whoever benefits from them. BMine apply, and theirs do not reach me. CRules are a tool, and I use them precisely. DThe rule matters far less than the outcome.

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What do people say about you behind your back? You already know which one it is.

AThat I am far too angry about it. BThat I put my own above everybody else. CThat I am much quieter than I should be. DThat I am certain in a way that unnerves them.

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What would you do with real power? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your villain.

AGive it to the people it was kept from. BUse it to shut my own people off from the world. CUse it to make the guilty face what they did. DUse it to fix the thing everybody refuses to face.

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The Case Is Made You Align With…

Four villains, and four arguments the films were honest enough to actually let them make. Here is the one you lean towards, the part of it that holds up, and the exact point where it stops holding up.

Erik Killmonger

You align with the one who was right about the problem and wrong about the solution. Killmonger is the most persuasive villain Marvel has produced because the film never pretends his anger came from nowhere.

You notice who was abandoned and you cannot let it go, which is a moral instinct before it is anything else.
His argument lands because Wakanda really did watch and do nothing, and the film makes T'Challa admit it out loud.
Where it breaks is the method, since a man who was failed by power decided the answer was to hold more of it.
Michael B. Jordan plays him as somebody performing certainty over grief, which is why the last scene of that film still works.

Namor

You align with the protector, which is the most understandable and most dangerous position on this list. Namor is not chasing power or revenge, he is doing whatever keeps his people hidden, and he has been doing it for centuries.

Your loyalty has a hard border around it, and everything inside that border matters far more to you than anything outside it.
Talokan is the best realised world Marvel has built since Wakanda, and the film makes you understand exactly what he is guarding.
His logic is airtight right up until it requires somebody else's people to pay for his people's safety.
He would rather be feared by the surface world forever than trust it once, and history has given him reasons.

Helmut Zemo

You align with the patient one, the only man on this list with no powers, no army and no hurry. Zemo lost his family in Sokovia and then spent years working out that you do not fight the Avengers, you introduce them to each other's secrets.

You go quiet when you are hurt, and the quiet is where the thinking happens.
Zemo is the only MCU villain who completely won, and he did it with a notebook, a plan and a great deal of self control.
His grief is real, and the film is careful never to let you forget that he started as an ordinary man with a family.
Where it fails is the cost, since taking apart the people who hurt him meant hurting a great many people who did not.

Thanos

You align with the one who decided the answer was arithmetic. Thanos is not angry and not grieving in any way he will admit to, he simply reached a conclusion and never once revisited it, which is precisely what makes him frightening.

You are capable of holding a position that costs you everything, and you would call that conviction rather than stubbornness.
Infinity War works because it is structured as his film, with a goal, a journey and a sacrifice, and the heroes are the obstacle.
The flaw in the plan is not the cruelty, it is that he never seriously considered a single alternative to it.
Josh Brolin plays him tired rather than triumphant, which is the choice that turned a purple giant into a real character.

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The MCU Returns This December

After the all-conquering Brand New Day, it's hard to imagine any film outperforming the latest Spidey movie at the box office. But the MCU's return later this year might do just that, as the Russo Brothers and co. aim to craft arguably the biggest blockbuster of this century so far. Avengers: Doomsday, set for release on December 18, is looking to go one step further than Endgame both critically and financially, and has lined up a stacked cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Tom Hiddleston, Florence Pugh, Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, and many more.

Spider-Man: Far From Home is a streaming hit on Tubi. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for all the latest streaming stories.

Release Date July 2, 2019

Runtime 129 Minutes

Peter Parker / Spider-Man
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The MCU Returns This December

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