EXCLUSIVE: There’s completely no have to get these moviegoers out of right here. For Universal, they’re doing completely properly, sitting in cinemas and watching Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey. The director’s highest grossing film ever at $1.59 billion worldwide has crossed one other milestone, and that’s that it has change into the seventeenth film to surpass $1 billion on the worldwide field workplace.
However what units this $1 billion-plus grossing pic aside on the abroad B.O. is that it’s the primary Hollywood non-sequel and non-remake to attain this threshold since 2009’s Avatar.
Via yesterday overseas, the Matt Damon-Anne Hathaway-Robert Pattinson-John Leguziamo-Tom Holland-Jon Bernthal epic counts $1.014 billion in worldwide territories.
“From its record-breaking opening to this historic milestone, The Odyssey has captivated audiences world wide,” mentioned Common Footage Worldwide’s president of distribution Veronika Kwan Vandenberg. “We’re extremely proud to have partnered with Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and everybody at Syncopy to share this visionary theatrical expertise with audiences all over the place.”
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The pic’s high ten markets embrace UK & Eire ($109.2M), China ($92.7M), France ($84.6M), Korea ($74M), Italy ($63.2M), Germany ($57.5M), Australia ($43M), Spain ($41M), Mexico ($37.3M) and India ($23.5M).
The Odyssey opened to $264.1M on the international field workplace, the largest begin ever for Nolan forward of 2008’s Darkish Knight Rises. The function take of Homer’s poem had a global opening of $139.6M which was additionally the director’s largest worldwide opening ever forward of Oppenheimer and The Darkish Knight Rises in like-for-like markets.
The Odyssey claimed the largest ever Nolan opening in 52 markets (together with Brazil, France, Italy, India, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, and Spain), and the film is the largest ever Nolan title in 75 markets (together with Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, India, Korea, Mexico, Spain, and The UK & Eire).
Already, The Odyssey is the best grossing movie ever in Imax with greater than $457M worldwide. Yesterday, the massive format exhibitor announced it was extending the pic’s run in 70MM Imax auditoriums till the top of this month.
Universal is leading all major studios at the year-to-date global box office with greater than $4.7 billion. They had been the primary studio to cross $4B on the international field workplace this 12 months, and so they had been the primary studio to cross $3B on the abroad field workplace.
