Universal’s The Odyssey climbed to a $90 million second weekend in the Monday update, giving Christopher Nolan his best sophomore frame ever at the domestic box office and tying Top Gun: Maverick for 12th place on the all-time list. The revision from Sunday’s $87 million writethru was enough to push the film’s domestic total to $289.3 million.
That kind of hold is why the film is still the one people are checking on today. The Odyssey also posted the second-best weekend ever for an R-rated movie, behind Deadpool & Wolverine, while its global total reached $639.6 million after a second overseas frame of $215.3 million. For Nolan, the number matters because it is not just a big opening running into a soft follow-up; it is a rare second weekend that kept nearly all of its heat.
The strength was not spread evenly across the market. Enhanced formats drove 57% of the weekend, with Imax alone accounting for 27% and PLFs for another 19%, a mix that explains why the film held so well. The movie was playing on 34 Imax 70MM screens, and the premium footprint delivered eye-catching grosses at locations including the TCL Chinese Theatre, Regal LA Live, Regal Irvine Spectrum, Regal Opry Mills, AMC Lincoln Square NYC and Regal UA Colorado Center. The Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA led pure 70MM play, while Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park in NYC topped the 35MM circuit.
Hadestown also outperformed expectations, filing in at $10.243 million in the Monday update and moving to No. 3 domestically. The Broadway feature capture beat the $10.1 million opening of Disney’s Hamilton to become the biggest stage-capture launch yet, and it set a record opening for Bleecker Street. Exhibitors pointed to repeat viewing, which fits the kind of audience demand that can lift a title beyond the usual first-weekend ceiling for a specialty release.
The one wrinkle in the numbers is the distance between the Sunday writethru and the Monday update: The Odyssey was first pegged at $87 million, then revised upward to $90 million along with the domestic total. That change does not dull the result. It sharpens it, because the film did not merely stay strong — it stayed strong enough to be revised higher the next morning, while Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now the next major release looming with a projected opening around $200 million plus.
