It’s official: Common’s The Odyssey has change into the highest-grossing R-rated film on the world field workplace with $1.352 billion, unseating Deadpool & Wolverine, which ended its worldwide run in 2024 at $1.33B.
Deadpool & Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds spilled the beans on social media previous to Uni making the report official.
The pic is already director Christopher Nolan’s highest-grossing film on the worldwide B.O. surpassing his earlier excessive, 2012’s The Darkish Knight Rises ($1.085B). The ensemble starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, John Leguziamo, Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Zendaya and Charlize Theron can also be one among 5 films to cross $1B this yr; the function take of Homer’s epic poem is now the second highest-grossing worldwide YTD behind Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Model New Day ($2.039B).
Damaged out, The Odyssey has made $835.6M abroad and $516.3M stateside by Wednesday.
Moreover, The Odyssey opened to $264.1M world, the largest over for Nolan forward of Darkish Knight Rises ($249M WW). The pic’s $139.6M opening on the abroad B.O. was additionally the director’s largest ever internationally forward of Oppenheimer and Darkish Knight Rises in like-for-like markets.
What’s fascinating is that Deadpool & Wolverine nonetheless owns the largest world opening for a R-rated film with a reported $444.7M in addition to stateside ($211.4M). The Odyssey‘s report speaks to the ability of legs, and, sure, a long term in Imax.
The Odyssey‘s home opening of $123.5M was the third finest for Nolan after Darkish Knight Rises ($160.8M) and Darkish Knight ($158.4M). The film, which opened July 17 on the North American field workplace, is getting into its sixth weekend of launch.
