UPDATE 2: The Spidey test came, and The Odyssey passed. Even with Brand New Day smashing the all-time opening day record, Nolan’s epic is holding with a projected $52 million third weekend, down just 42 percent, the best third frame of his career past The Dark Knight‘s $42.6 million, with roughly $396.5 million domestic by Sunday.
UPDATE: Sunday overperformed and Monday’s actuals came in even higher. Per Deadline, The Odyssey‘s second weekend finished at $90 million, tying Top Gun: Maverick for the 12th-best sophomore frame in history, off a $29.78 million Sunday that dipped just 14% from Saturday. The domestic total now stands at $289.3 million, and Universal keeps the Imax screens even with Spider-Man: Brand New Day arriving this week projecting a $200 million-plus opening.
Hadestown got its own Monday bump, revised up to $10.24 million, passing Hamilton‘s $10.1 million as the biggest Broadway stage capture opening ever and jumping to No. 3 for the weekend ahead of Toy Story 5, with exhibitors telling Bleecker Street they’re seeing repeat viewing. The overall weekend was revised up to $148.2 million, and Rentrak puts 2026 at $5.7 billion through July 26, up 10% on last year.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey posted an $87 million second weekend at the domestic box office, per Deadline’s Sunday morning update, the best second frame of Nolan’s career and past the $75.1 million mark The Dark Knight set in 2008.
The drop from its $124.5 million opening weekend is just 30%.
Deadline’s own outlook heading into the frame was $61 million to $74 million, and the movie cleared the top of that range by $13 million off a $25.9 million Friday and a $34.6 million Saturday.
The R-Rated Record Book
Deadline reports it’s the second-best second weekend ever for an R-rated movie, behind only Deadpool & Wolverine‘s $96.8 million in 2024 and ahead of It‘s $60.1 million.
The running domestic total sits at $286.3 million through ten days. That makes The Odyssey the highest-grossing R-rated movie of the year, past Obsession at $259.8 million, and already Universal’s second-biggest R-rated movie ever behind Nolan’s own Oppenheimer at $330 million and ahead of Ted at $218.8 million.
$639.6 Million Worldwide
The second global frame added a massive $215.3 million, pushing the worldwide total to $639.6 million. The film closed its first week domestic at $199.3 million, and at this pace the conversation has moved past whether it joins the billion-dollar club and on to when.
Premium Screens Are Doing The Heavy Lifting
Enhanced formats, meaning Imax, PLFs and 70mm, drove 57% of the weekend, up from 53% on opening. Imax alone repped 27%, with 5% of that from Imax 70mm and 22% digital, while PLFs added another 19%.
The TCL Chinese Theatre story is the one to watch. Deadline reports that counting sales plus pre-sales through week five, The Odyssey is now the all-time highest-grossing movie in the historic venue’s history at $2.48 million, topping Oppenheimer‘s full-run $2.38 million. The Chinese also led all 34 Imax 70mm screens this weekend with $254,000 through Saturday, ahead of Regal LA Live at $159,000 and Regal Irvine Spectrum at $146,000.
Deadline’s takeaway for the industry is blunt: a minority of screens are driving the majority of a tentpole’s gross, and a movie doesn’t need a 4,000-theater footprint to rake it in.
Who’s Buying Tickets
Per Screen Engine/Rentrak’s PostTrak, men repped 52% of the weekend two audience, down from 59% on opening, with the over-25 crowd steady at 76% and half the audience between 18 and 34. Definite recommend scores remain sky high at 84% for men and 82% for women.
The film over-indexed in the Northeast, the West and most of Canada, with L.A., New York, San Francisco, Dallas and Toronto the top markets. AMC rang up 26% of the weekend at $15.2 million, Regal close to 20% at $11.6 million, and Cinemark 12.7% at $7.4 million.
About Those 700,000 Dislikes
Remember when the trailer hit 700,000 dislikes and Nolan shrugged that it comes with the territory? CBN tracked that campaign from 55,000 dislikes all the way up, and the verdict is in the receipts. The movie carries a 96% audience score and an ‘A’ CinemaScore, holds at 30%, and just took a second-weekend record off The Dark Knight.
The movie is so big it spent the week attracting imitators, with Elon Musk promising rival AI and Mel Gibson Odysseys. None of it touched the ticket line.
The Rest Of The Chart
Toy Story 5 crossed $1 billion worldwide, the third movie of the year to do it, and its $1.022 billion makes it 2026’s highest-grossing film ahead of Super Mario Galaxy Movie at $1.011 billion and Michael at $1.01 billion. Domestically it took third with $10 million for a $448.5 million total.
Moana held second with $10.5 million and crossed the century mark at $102.4 million, a milestone that changes nothing about Disney’s projected $100 million to $125 million loss on the remake.
Broadway capture Hadestown opened to $9.69 million at 1,949 sites, the second-biggest Broadway live capture debut ever behind Disney’s Hamilton at $10.1 million, and Bleecker Street is adding showtimes to what was planned as a five-night event.
The overall marketplace came in around $140.6 million, down 25% from the same weekend last year when Fantastic Four: First Steps opened, which tells you how much heavy lifting one Homer adaptation is doing without a major studio wide release alongside it.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrives next weekend tracking for the biggest opening of 2026, and with it comes the first real test of whether anything can pull audiences off The Odyssey‘s premium screens.
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