Film Phase 6 — Doomsday (2026)

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Name: Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Released: 2026-07-31
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Tom Holland, Sadie Sink, Tramell Tillman, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal

"A brand new day starts now."

Released July 31, 2026 2h 10m ★ 8.0TMDB ★ Essential to the MCU

Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see.

Watch note

Peter fights crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that no longer remembers him, and the strain of watching his friends move on sparks a transformation he can barely control. A shocking new threat forces him to fight for the city and everyone he loves. The last MCU film before Doomsday. Jon Bernthal appears as Frank Castle / the Punisher.

Why It Matters in the MCU

The second reboot of the Sony-MCU Spider-Man series follows No Way Home's identity erasure to its logical endpoint — a Peter Parker who must rebuild his life with no legacy to lean on and no mentor to replace. The Brand New Day premise allows the film to interrogate whether Spider-Man's value is in the person behind the mask or the idea the mask represents. It is a structural reset with genuine creative potential, built on No Way Home's most radical creative decision: that walking away from everything you've built is sometimes the only honest move.

Watch These First

40 titles lead into Spider-Man: Brand New Day — 175 hours in total. 23 of the 40 are essential.

Captain America: The First Avenger Essential 2h 4m ★ 7.0
Captain Marvel Essential 2h 4m ★ 6.8
Iron Man Essential 2h 6m ★ 7.7
Iron Man 2 Essential 2h 4m ★ 6.9
The Incredible Hulk Essential 1h 52m ★ 6.3
Iron Man 2 (Post-Credit Scene) Essential 0h 2m
Thor Essential 1h 55m ★ 6.8 +2 before this
Captain America: The First Avenger (Credits) Essential 0h 2m
Thor (Post-Credit Scene) Essential 0h 2m
The Avengers Essential 2h 23m ★ 8.1 +2 before this
Iron Man 3 Essential 2h 10m ★ 6.9
Thor: The Dark World Essential 1h 52m ★ 6.5
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Essential 2h 16m ★ 7.7 +3 before this
Guardians of the Galaxy Essential 2h 1m ★ 7.9
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Essential 2h 16m ★ 7.6
Daredevil (Season 1) Recommended 11h ★ 8.2
Jessica Jones (Season 1) 11h ★ 7.5
Avengers: Age of Ultron Essential 2h 21m ★ 7.3
Daredevil (Season 2) Recommended 11h ★ 8.2
Captain America: Civil War Essential 2h 27m ★ 7.5 +1 before this
Team Thor 0h 4m ★ 7.2
Luke Cage (Season 1) 11h ★ 6.9
Iron Fist (Season 1) 11h ★ 6.5
The Defenders (Season 1) 8h ★ 7.0
Black Widow Recommended 2h 14m ★ 7.2
Eyes of Wakanda (Season 1) Essential 2h ★ 6.2
Black Panther Essential 2h 14m ★ 7.4
Spider-Man: Homecoming Essential 2h 13m ★ 7.3
The Punisher (Season 1) 11h 55m ★ 8.2
Doctor Strange Essential 1h 55m ★ 7.4
Daredevil (Season 3) 11h ★ 8.2
Thor: Ragnarok Essential 2h 10m ★ 7.6 +1 before this
The Punisher (Season 2) 11h 55m ★ 8.2
Avengers: Infinity War Essential 2h 29m ★ 8.2 +3 before this
Captain Marvel (Post-Credits Scene) Essential 0h 2m
Avengers: Endgame Essential 3h 2m ★ 8.2 +8 before this
Avengers: Endgame Encore Essential 3h 5m +8 before this
Peter's To-Do List Essential 0h 4m ★ 7.0
Spider-Man: Far From Home Essential 2h 9m ★ 7.4
Black Widow (Post-Credit Scene) Recommended 0h 3m
Hawkeye (Season 1) Recommended 5h ★ 7.8
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2h 12m ★ 7.5 +1 before this
Spider-Man: No Way Home Essential 2h 28m ★ 7.9 +7 before this
She-Hulk (Season 1) 6h ★ 6.1 +4 before this
Daredevil: Born Again (Season 1) 8h 15m ★ 8.2 +1 before this
Thunderbolts* Recommended 2h 7m ★ 7.3 +4 before this
The Punisher: One Last Kill 1h ★ 8.3

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Where It Fits in the MCU

Spider-Man: Brand New Day sits at position 155 of 158 in the MCU's story-chronological order, placing it within the Phase 6 — Doomsday (2026) era. It is rated Essential — must-watch for following the main MCU narrative. Watching in story-chronological order provides the most coherent character development experience — individual arcs build naturally toward the franchise's major crossover events, with each film's post-credits scenes carrying forward into what follows.

Official Trailer

Cast

Tom Holland

Peter Parker / Spider-Man

Sadie Sink

Jean Grey

Tramell Tillman

William 'Bill' Metzger

Zendaya

Jon Bernthal

Frank Castle / Punisher

Jacob Batalon

Ned Leeds

Mark Ruffalo

Bruce Banner / Hulk

Liza Colón-Zayas

Detective Jean DeWolff

Florence Pugh

Yelena Belova / Black Widow

Marisa Tomei

May Parker

Post-Credits Scene

There is one scene, at the very end of the credits, and no mid-credits scene. No character appears on screen. It is the interface of Ned Leeds' Spider-Tracker — the app he builds earlier in the film, having kept his memory of Spider-Man but not of Peter Parker — registering a new sighting. The map pulls back from New York, then from Earth entirely, and settles on the spider symbol somewhere in open space beyond the Moon. Nothing explains how Peter got there. The scene ends on a "Spider-Man Will Return" card.

Where reports disagree: Which film this leads into is still open. Tom Holland was not in the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement, which is why most outlets read the off-world ending as a Secret Wars setup — Battleworld would account for Peter being off Earth. But Marvel has said Doomsday holds unannounced casting, and some reporting still places Spider-Man in it. Neither film is named on screen, so either reading is an inference rather than something the scene states.

Reporting: Variety , Deadline , Den of Geek , Forbes