On today’s episode, in our Box Office segment, Variety’s Rebecca Rubin reports that the good news keeps on coming for the movie biz as “Spider Man: Brand New Day” soars in weekend two and “The Odyssey” becomes Christopher Nolan’s highest-grossing film. Most important, the summer tally to date has already hit the $4 billion benchmark that was the norm pre-COVID.
Sony Pictures’ “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” packed ’em in for a second weekend. But it’s Universal Pictures’ “The Odyssey” that is defying gravity as an R-rated adult historical drama. The movie has legs that won’t quit, says Rubin, Variety‘s senior film reporter.
” ‘The Odyssey’ now has made one point one billion dollars and it is officially Christopher Nolan’s highest-grossing movie of all time, and it’s also the highest-grossing Imax release ever. It has made $289 million just in Imax, and that’s above the company’s prior record holder, which was [2009’s] ‘Avatar.’ And that movie made around $270 million in Imax,” Rubin says. “And what’s significant about both of these milestones, both being Christopher Nolan’s biggest movie and Imax’s biggest movie, is this film has only been out for four weeks and it does not appear close to be slowing down. And so those numbers are just going to keep rising and keep rising.”
