A bootleg of Spider-Man: Brand New Day sat on X for over seven hours, reaching 5.9 million accounts and collecting 143,000 likes before Disney's takedown requests caught up with it.
The leak is not slowing the film down. It pulled $72 million in preview screenings, clearing Avengers: Endgame's previous record of $60 million set in 2019. That context matters: Endgame went on to become one of the highest-grossing films in history.
The full story tracks where the reposted copies went after the original came down, and what Endgame's final numbers suggest about Brand New Day's ceiling. The trajectory is worth following.
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