MJ (Zendaya) watches Spider-Man work in Columbia Pictures SPIDER-MAN™: BRAND NEW DAY. Photo by Jay Maidment Credit: Jay Maidment / TheWestIn one swoop, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is already ahead of The Odyssey after the Christopher Nolan epic dominated cinemas in its first two weeks. While the previous Spider-Man films, especially in the Holland era, have been enormously popular, there was still a hesitancy in declaring it a sure thing prior to release. Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. So, Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s success had been far from assured.