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The Odyssey Surpasses Jurassic World to Become Universal’s Highest-Grossing Film Ever
Confirmed
In Short: The Odyssey has shattered box office records, becoming Universal Pictures' highest-grossing movie ever with global earnings of $1.684 billion.
By the end of this weekend, The Odyssey will have amassed $601.2 million domestically and $1.083 billion internationally, making it the 12th highest-grossing film ever and the third-biggest non-franchise title of all time. Additionally, it has become the highest-grossing Universal Pictures film in 45 international markets, including Australia, France, Italy, India, and Korea.
Universal continues to lead all major studios with more than $4.92 billion in box office earnings to date. However, not everyone is impressed, as Fox Business noted, "Bad movies, and books, and TV shows, get released every day." The studio's success may also be attributed to the fact that Hollywood isn't making a lot of movies these days, according to Fox Business.
In a recent interview, Winkler, who directed The Odyssey, admitted, "I don’t even remember the title of that movie," when asked by Andy Cohen if he had seen it in theaters. Winkler further explained that he was not "suited" to direct the movie but accepted the job after being handpicked by Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg.
What's confirmed
- By the end of this weekend, The Odyssey will have amassed $601.2 million domestically and $1.083 billion internationally, making it the 12th highest-grossing film ever and the third-biggest non-franchise title of all time. Additionally, it has become the highest-grossing Universal Pictures film in 45 international markets, including Australia, France, Italy, India, and Korea.
- Universal continues to lead all major studios with more than $4.92 billion in box office earnings to date. However, not everyone is impressed, as Fox Business noted, "Bad movies, and books, and TV shows, get released every day." The studio's success may also be attributed to the fact that Hollywood isn't making a lot of movies these days, according to Fox Business.
- In a recent interview, Winkler, who directed The Odyssey, admitted, "I don’t even remember the title of that movie," when asked by Andy Cohen if he had seen it in theaters. Winkler further explained that he was not "suited" to direct the movie but accepted the job after being handpicked by Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg.
What's still developing
- As we’ve reported, The Odyssey quite some time ago became Christopher Nolan’s highest grossing movie of his career, both domestic (clicking past Dark Knight ‘s $534.9M) and worldwide ($1.085B).
- Among the records that The Odyssey has broken: -Biggest opening for director Christopher Nolan ahead of Dark Knight Rises internationally and globally ($139.6M international, $264.1M worldwide). -Biggest opening weekend for Imax 70MM domestically ($6.3M) –Highest-grossing film for director Christopher Nolan domestically, internationally and globally. –Highest-grossing R-rated film of all time (beating Deadpool & Wolverine ‘s $1.33B). –First non-sequel and non-remake to gross over $1 billion internationally since 2009. –Second-highest-grossing film of the year (after Sony’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day which is approaching $935M+ by Sunday).
- The pic will sail above Universal’s previous record-breaker, 2015’s Jurassic World which ended its run at $1.677 billion.
- The next big drama in Hollywood may not play out in the movie theater, but possibly the White House.
- AUSTIN, Texas – The backstory to how this movie got to a theater near you could be a movie.
- In a recent interview on " In Depth With Graham Bensinger," Winkler — who was fired as director of Hanks’ 1989 movie "Turner & Hooch" after 13 days of filming — addressed the situation that initially ignited the reported rift.