Tom Holland and Zendaya Are Officially 2026's Highest-Grossing Hollywood Couple

Tom Holland and Zendaya Are Officially 2026's Highest-Grossing Hollywood Couple

There are Hollywood power couples, and then there's Tom Holland and Zendaya. This summer, the real-life pair didn't just star in blockbusters — they basically became the box office. Between Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the two have racked up a combined haul that makes everyone else look like they're playing a different game.

Here's the wild part: they're both in both movies. That's right — the same two people carried the two biggest films of 2026, and the numbers are genuinely absurd.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Shattered the Record Books

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened with a staggering $355 million in North America and $927 million worldwide on its first weekend — the second-biggest global opening in cinema history, trailing only Avengers: Endgame. It crossed $1 billion within its first week, and it's still climbing with basically no competition for the rest of August.

Meanwhile, The Odyssey — Nolan's epic take on Homer, starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Holland, and Zendaya — has grossed $911 million worldwide in just three weekends. Together, the two films powered the biggest domestic box office weekend ever recorded, pulling in roughly $430 million across North America in a single frame.

Zendaya Is Chasing a Record That's Been Untouched Since 2019

For Zendaya, 2026 has been a career year on a scale that's hard to overstate. Between The Drama, The Odyssey, and Brand New Day, her films have earned nearly $2 billion worldwide — and her year isn't over. Dune: Part Three lands in December, and if it performs like its predecessors (Dune: Part One at $410M, Dune: Part Two at $714M), she could challenge Brie Larson's 2019 record for the biggest single-year worldwide gross ever for an actress.

Holland isn't far behind. Through The Odyssey and Brand New Day alone, he's crossed roughly $1.8 billion in worldwide grosses this year. And with rumors he could appear in Avengers: Doomsday — the follow-up to a franchise whose last entry still holds multiple monetary records — his 2026 total might not be done yet.

What This Means for Hollywood

• Star power isn't dead. After years of "franchises matter more than faces," two actors just proved a beloved on-screen (and off-screen) duo can still move mountains.
• Nolan + Marvel-adjacent = unstoppable. The Odyssey and Brand New Day proved audiences will show up for both prestige epics and superhero spectacle in the same month.
• Watch out for Benny Safdie. The Odyssey co-star and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie standout is currently the highest-grossing actor of 2026 — but Holland and Zendaya are hot on his heels.

The takeaway? 2026 belongs to Tomdaya. If you haven't seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day or The Odyssey in theaters yet, you're missing the two movies that are single-handedly saving the summer box office — and making the internet's favorite couple very, very rich.