It’s Officially The End Of An Era For The Odyssey At The Box Office

Published Oct 19, 2026, 1:24 PM EDT

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The Odyssey's epic journey is coming close to reaching its end.

2026's The Odyssey, which was written and directed by Christopher Nolan, is a new adaptation of Homer's epic poem of the same name that stars Matt Damon as Odysseus opposite a star-studded ensemble cast. The movie is a massive hit, having become the 11th highest-grossing movie of all time, Universal's highest-grossing movie worldwide, and Christopher Nolan's highest-grossing movie ever. It stayed in the domestic Top 5 for 10 consecutive weekends and the Top 10 for 11, rising back to No. 9 last weekend after being pushed to No. 11, thanks to its return to IMAX theaters.

Per Box Office Mojo, The Odyssey earned a 3-day total of $550,000 at the domestic box office during its 14th weekend in theaters, dropping 74.4% from the previous week, which had seen it climbing 65.5% thanks to IMAX screenings. The movie has performed particularly well in IMAX (to the tune of becoming the highest-grossing IMAX release of all time) thanks to its reputation as the first movie shot entirely on IMAX film cameras. However, this precipitous drop, combined with the arrival of multiple new releases, sees the movie falling from No. 9 straight to No. 17.

This marks the second time that Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has been pushed from the domestic Top 10 and the first time that it has ever spent a weekend outside of the Top 15. It has proven to be no match for the combined might of a slew of new releases - namely Street Fighter (No. 1), You Can See Everything (No. 2), Whalefall (No. 4), Sense and Sensibility (No. 5), and Jailer 2 (No. 9) - alongside holdover hits that came out more recently, including Verity (No. 6), Resident Evil (No. 7) and Spider-Man: Brand New Day (No. 16).

Below, see a breakdown of The Odyssey's domestic chart performance during its first 14 weeks in theaters:

Week	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Rank	#1	#1	#2	#2	#2	#3	#3	#2	#3	#4	#8	#11	#9	#17

Given the fact that The Odyssey has already been in theaters for three full months, it makes sense that the movie's momentum is finally decreasing. While it has still been able to generate interest in IMAX screenings, the movie is set to debut on digital and physical media in less than a month (it will be available for rental and purchase on November 17, which is the same day its 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release drops), so this slowdown is only natural.

However, even though the reported budget of The Odyssey is $250 million (which ties it with 10 other movies, including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Furious 7, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, as the 32nd most expensive movie of all time), it has nothing left to prove at the box office. Its estimated break-even point is most likely somewhere around $625 million. Given the fact that its lifetime worldwide total of $1.789 billion has nearly tripled that number, the new Christopher Nolan movie is secure in its status not only as a commercial success but as a zeitgeist-defining phenomenon.

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