The Odyssey Box Office: Beats Spider-Man: No Way Home Overseas

Ten weekends in, the Christopher Nolan epic has crossed $1.1 billion overseas and $1.72 billion worldwide, with a $1.9 billion target now in sight.

Ten weekends out from release and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is still finding new records to break. The film added $16.7 million overseas over the weekend, pushing its international total past the $1.1 billion mark and nudging ahead of Spider-Man: No Way Home's $1.11 billion overseas run, according to Koimoi. That puts Nolan's epic at 11th on the all-time list of highest overseas grossers, a spot few expected a two-hour-forty-minute mythological epic to occupy two months after release.

The worldwide numbers are where it gets properly interesting. The Matt Damon-led film has now collected $1.72 billion globally, with $609.8 million of that coming from North America. A few days back it slid past Jurassic World's $1.67 billion lifetime run to become Universal's highest-grossing film ever. It has since gone past Inside Out 2's $1.7 billion too, which makes The Odyssey the 11th highest-grossing film of all time worldwide. Koimoi reports the film is eyeing a $1.8 to $1.9 billion finish.

The Spider-Man ceiling

Whether The Odyssey gets there is one question. Whether it clears $1.92 billion, the number Spider-Man: No Way Home locked in as the ninth highest-grossing film ever, is another. Right now the film is tracking toward the lower end of that $1.9 billion window, and there's no guarantee it closes the gap. Ten weeks of steady holds is one thing. Finding another $200 million in the final stretch is a different ask entirely.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day remains well out of reach, so nobody's pretending The Odyssey is chasing the top of the chart. But moving past a modern Spidey film into single-digit territory on the all-time worldwide list would be the kind of number Universal can put on a poster for years.

IMAX did the heavy lifting

The film's biggest flex might be the format it was built for. The Odyssey has become the only film in history to cross $300 million on IMAX screens alone, and the format alone brought in $7.7 million over this last weekend. The previous IMAX benchmark belonged to Avatar. For a film shot largely on IMAX-format cameras, that record was probably the point all along.

Domestically, the run is finally cooling in the way ten-week runs eventually do. The North American haul dropped below $1 million for the first time this past weekend, a milestone Koimoi notes ranks fifth among the longest $1 million daily streaks ever recorded. It's not a collapse. It's a film quietly finishing its domestic leg while overseas markets keep the engine running.

The next few weekends will decide the shape of the final number. If The Odyssey holds anywhere close to its current pace, the $1.9 billion mark stops being a projection and starts being a formality. Whether it actually gets past Spider-Man: No Way Home's $1.92 billion worldwide total is the number worth watching from here.