This year’s embarrassment of riches at the global box office continues, for we can tell you today that Universal’s Christopher Nolan feature take of Homer’s The Odyssey has crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office.
The pic will soon become the 2x Oscar winner’s highest grossing movie ever, overtaking the $1.085 billion-grossing Dark Knight Rises.
Following Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day earlier this week which became the second-fastest to the billion mark worldwide after Avengers: Endgame, Odyssey is the fifth tentpole to cross $1 billion at the 2026 a list that also includes Toy Story 5, Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Michael. Spider-Man: Brand New Day with more than $1.1B is currently the highest grossing pic of the calendar year.
Broken out, Odyssey has minted $429.7M domestic and $570.3M overseas. The movie opened in Korea on Wednesday and will land in China on Aug. 14 followed by Japan on Sept. 11. Imax auditoriums are at a near sell out in key box office markets like LA & NYC through October, we hear. This weekend, Odyssey will co-share Imax hubs with Brand New Day stateside.
The Odyssey‘s highest grossing territories as of Monday were UK with more than $67M, France with $47M, Italy with more than $42M, Germany north of $31M, Australia with $28M, Mexico with $26M, and Spain with $24M.
Combined, Brand New Day and Odyssey counted $2.1 billion at the global box office. They will soon steamroll the combined $2.4 billion global gross of Barbenheimer in 2023 (broken that was $1.44B for Barbie and $975.8M for Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
Odyssey is now the 65th movie to cross $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
