It's official: Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now the highest-grossing movie in North American box office history, passing Star Wars: The Force Awakens to take the top spot on the all-time domestic chart, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Take a second with that one. The Force Awakens has sat on top of this particular mountain since it opened in 2015, and we all quietly assumed it would hold for a decade or more because nothing was touching it. It finished its run with roughly $936 million domestic, a number that felt less like a box office total and more like a monument. Every year since, we'd watch the big releases roll out and wonder, and every year the answer was nope. Now the answer is a kid in a red and blue suit.

If you've been following along this summer, none of this should shock you, even if it still stuns a little. This movie has been rewriting the record book since day one, and every time I've thought okay, that's the ceiling, the ceiling moves.

The handoff feels poetic too. The Force Awakens was one of the last great theatrical monoculture moments of its era, a movie absolutely everyone showed up for within weeks of each other, and a lot of people, me included, wondered if that kind of shared event even existed anymore in the streaming age. Turns out it does. It just needed the right character, the right story, and the right moment.

Where it ends, nobody knows. The total keeps climbing, and it's already past a number that had no peer domestically. The worldwide chart is a different conversation, but domestically? This is the mountain now, and I genuinely can't see what climbs it next.

I've said before that word of mouth is the only marketing that can't be bought, and this run is the whole argument in one movie. People didn't just see it. They saw it, called a friend, and went back. Records fall that way, one person dragging another person back to the theater.