IMDb's hottest movies right now: August 21, 2026
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is IMDb MOVIEmeter #1 on August 21, 2026, matching Wikipedia's #3 film page, after Variety put the Tom Holland title at $2.022 billion worldwide and Deadline called it the second-fastest movie to $2 billion (17 days, behind Endgame's 11). The entire top 10 matches August 20. Trends MCP stored 10 titles at 08:01 UTC. The End of Oak Street at #3 is the new theatrical, with a $21 million opening weekend in the Rotten Tomatoes frame.
Top trending movies on IMDb: August 21
The August 21 MOVIEmeter cut is one $2 billion holdover, Nolan's epic, two suburban-survival titles and Marvel's next two mutant films. These 10 ranks come from the Trends MCP snapshot.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026): Destin Daniel Cretton's film, in theaters since July 29-31, leads after $70 million in its third domestic weekend and about $810 million domestic on Box Office Mojo. It is the first Spider-Man movie to clear $2 billion. See the Brand New Day topic page.
The Odyssey (2026): Christopher Nolan's film holds #2 with $23.2 million this weekend and $504.6 million cume in that same box-office rundown. It remains the clear #2 at theaters behind Brand New Day. Track earlier spikes on the Odyssey topic page.
The End of Oak Street (2026): David Robert Mitchell's Warner Bros. title, produced by J.J. Abrams, opened August 14 with Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as a family dropped into a dinosaur-era suburb. Wikipedia listed $63.4 million worldwide against an $80-92 million budget; the weekend chart had a $21 million open. Notes: The End of Oak Street topic.
The Last House (2026): Louis Leterrier's Netflix thriller with Greta Lee and Wagner Moura, released August 7, holds #4. Polygon flagged it as arriving a week before Oak Street with a locked-in-the-house premise. See the Last House topic page.
Avengers: Doomsday (2026): Marvel's next Avengers title holds #5 as YouTube fills with trailer breakdowns (two of today's YouTube top 10). No new official trailer dated August 21 was required to keep the MOVIEmeter slot.
Obsession (2025): The horror film that made Inde Navarrette a search term after her Rogue casting still sits at #6. Elle's 2026 interview called it the highest-rated horror movie of 2026 on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Invite (2026): Holds #7. No widely reported theatrical or streaming trigger identified for August 21 beyond continued MOVIEmeter presence.
Untitled Marvel X-Men Film (2028): The D23-announced mutant film dated May 5, 2028, with Sadie Sink, Kit Connor, Maya Boyd and Inde Navarrette, holds #8. Casting news from August 14 is still feeding the page.
Don't Say Good Luck (2026): Holds #9. No widely reported trigger identified for August 21.
Tangled (2028): The live-action dated 2028 holds #10. No August 21 Disney footage drop was found; the rank is a hangover from the D23 weekend.
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What changed on IMDb since yesterday
No published title or rank changed.
| Change | Details |
|---|---|
| New entrants | None |
| Big movers (5+ ranks) | None |
| Drop-offs from August 20 top 10 | None |
What today's IMDb trends reveal
MOVIEmeter is tracking a three-layer movie year: a record still in theaters, two August survival films cannibalizing each other, and 2026-2028 Marvel/Disney inventory. Brand New Day at #1 is box office. Oak Street and Last House at #3-4 are the same suburban-family premise on two platforms a week apart.
The X-Men page at #8 plus Obsession at #6 is a cast spillover from D23, not a new trailer. A frozen 10-for-10 versus August 20 means the meter did not react to Friday's YouTube Doom clips yet.
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These ranks came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends API on August 21, 2026. The type string is IMDb MOVIEmeter. Source notes: IMDb MOVIEmeter API.
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