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‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ is on digital! 🕷️

Theater records broken:

• Biggest domestic opening ever ($360M)

• Fastest to $250M & $500M domestic

• Highest-grossing domestic release ($954M)

• 3rd highest-grossing film of all time ($2.5B global)

• Biggest movie of 2026

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Then The Mummy arrived.

The Dark Universe never reached its planned second movie.

Bride of Frankenstein was cancelled.

The monster universe Universal had announced effectively ended before it could begin.

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In 2012, The Avengers changed Hollywood forever.

Every major studio realized they were sitting on a goldmine. Suddenly, a brand-new race began as everyone rushed to build their own giant storytelling worlds.

Here's the wild history of the universes we almost got 🧵

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Even Dracula Untold had been caught up in the changing plans.

But Universal eventually reset the continuity.

Alex Kurtzman confirmed the new Mummy universe was not connected to Dracula Untold.

A new Dracula would be introduced instead.