No new major genre movies this weekend means the older ones continue to dominate the box office.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s good news for\u00a0The Odyssey<\/a>,\u00a0which continues to rake in money. Variety<\/a> reports that its sophomore weekend saw an additional $87 million domestic, down 30% from its impressive debut. It\u2019s common for movies, especially R-rated ones, to fall by 50% or more if they opened at $100 million, but that\u2019s not the case here. In fact, this makes for the second-biggest week two for an R-rated movie behind\u00a0Deadpool & Wolverine\u00a0back in 2024.<\/p>\n At time of writing, Nolan\u2019s Greek epic is at $639.6 million worldwide. The $1 billion benchmark is in sight, and one he\u2019s previously hit before with the\u00a0Dark Knight\u00a0sequels. As is,\u00a0The Odyssey\u00a0is basically within arm\u2019s reach of Interstellar\u2019s\u00a0$774.7 million global take. Its legs will depend on Friday\u2019s\u00a0Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>\u00a0and which of the two they\u2019re feeling more. (Or, alternatively, how many are interested in seeing them back-to-back.) A point in\u00a0Odyssey\u2019s\u00a0favor is that it\u2019s got IMAX on its side; as Variety notes, showtimes for 70mm screenings are sold out until September.<\/p>\n Should\u00a0The Odyssey\u00a0get to $1 billion, it\u2019ll come after\u00a0Toy Story 5\u2018s<\/a> crossed the line. Pixar\u2019s latest film hit the milestone this weekend after adding another $10 million domestic to its haul. Now at $1.022 billion worldwide, it\u2019s the highest-grossing movie of 2022, slightly ahead of\u00a0The Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u2019s\u00a0$1.011 billion. Great news for Disney\u2026the Pixar staff who worked on the film, not so much<\/a>.<\/p>\n Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No new major genre movies this weekend means the older ones continue to dominate the box office. That\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[9867,30852,18,117,19,17,327,29194,30853,27669],"class_list":["post-606540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-box-office","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-pixar","tag-the-odyssey","tag-toy-story-5"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116992290721542935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n