on Google Preferred Source Google News Link copied to clipboard By Terry Terrones Published Aug 3, 2026, 8:19 PM EDT FYI Spider-Man is coming back to finish a story nearly a decade in the making.
Spider-Man is coming to IMAX after massive opening weekend Fast Forever director hasn’t read the script that made Vin Diesel cry After Spider-Man: Brand New Day, everyone's playing the PS5 games again The next Spider-Man movie officially arrives in 10 months, and it doesn't star Tom Holland Image: Disney, Marvel Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse Sign in to your Polygon.com account Superhero fatigue may be real, Marvel movies can stumble, and even the MCU isn't guaranteed a blockbuster simply because its logo appears before the opening credits anymore. Spider-Man , meanwhile, just shattered the record books . Brand New Day opened to $360 million domestically, surpassing Avengers: Endgame's $357 million debut to score the biggest opening weekend in North American box office history.
More than two decades after Tobey Maguire first put on the mask, Spider-Man remains about as close to a sure thing as Hollywood has to offer. Three different Peter Parkers have headlined movies. Miles Morales has become a star in his own right. And while plenty of superhero franchises have spent the past few years trying to figure out how to keep audiences interested, Spider-Man's biggest problem might be the opposite: figuring out how many different versions of him audiences will keep showing up to see. We're about to find out.
Brand New Day may have only just arrived, but anyone already wondering when Spider-Man (and Tom Holland) will be back on the big screen doesn't have to wait very long. The next Spider-Man movie officially arrives in theaters in just 10 months. It just won't star Tom Holland.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse hits theaters on June 18, 2027, bringing Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) back to the big screen four years after Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse left him in possibly the worst predicament of his young superhero career. Sony describes the movie as the conclusion to the Spider-Verse saga, which means the next Spider-Man movie isn't simply another trip through the multiverse. It's the ending of a story that began nearly a decade ago, and Miles still has quite a bit of unfinished business.
Image: Sony Pictures Animation Probably not in the way that matters most. Beyond the Spider-Verse is being billed as the conclusion to the Spider-Verse saga, and there's every reason to expect it will give Miles' trilogy a real ending. But Into the Spider-Verse also proved something much bigger than whether audiences would embrace an animated Spider-Man movie.
It proved they would embrace a Spider-Man movie without Peter Parker at its center.
That sounds less revolutionary now than it did in 2018, which might be the greatest compliment you can give this trilogy. Miles went from being a character many moviegoers had never encountered to headlining two critically acclaimed blockbusters, while Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld), Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage), Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac), and approximately 8 billion other Spider-People turned the franchise's central premise into something much larger than a single guy named Peter Parker.
Image: Sony Pictures Animation Even Sony's official description of Across the Spider-Verse boils the philosophy down to a simple idea: "Anyone can wear the mask." Beyond the Spider-Verse now has the considerabl…