Box-Office Weekend: THE ODYSSEY Proves Epic

Box Office Weekend

For a third consecutive week, a new film has claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten as director Chirstopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey debuted at number one by an impressive margin of $105.5 million.

“The Odyssey” posterIn its first weekend in release, the latest film from Christopher Nolan, The Odyssey took control of first place of the box-office weekend top ten with an opening weekend tally of $124.5 million. This ended up being more than $100 million than the film needed to best second-place Moana which brought in $19.0 million over its second weekend in release as it dropped from first. The film still claims a two-week total of $82.1 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Meanwhile, Universal Pictures saw Minions & Monsters fall from second to third place where it brought in $14.8 million to bring the film’s three-week total to $137.6 million. Likewise, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw Toy Story 5 earn $14.8 million on its way to a fourth-place finish in its fifth week in release as its overall total rose to $430.9 million. Following a fourth-place finish last week, Evil Dead Burn fell to fifth as it made $5.0 million for Warner Bros. to bring the film’s two-week total to $24.2 million.

Retaining its hold on sixth place, The Invite managed to bring in $3.9 million over the weekend to lift its two-week total to $15.0 million for A24. Meanwhile, Angel’s Young Washington dropped two places to finish in seventh this week with $3.7 million, giving the film a three-week total of $41.0 million. Falling one spot, the Focus Features release, Obsession took over eighth place with $2.5 million. This raises the film’s ten-week total to $258.5 million. In its fourth weekend of release, the Warner Bros. product Supergirl fell a spot to land in ninth place where it made $1.5 million, to move its four-week total to $69.9 million. Finally, following a ninth-place finish last weekend, Universal Pictures’ Disclosure Day dropped to tenth place where it brought in $1.4 million for the studio to give the film a six-week total of $114.7 million.

Only one film was pushed out of the top ten this weekend’s list as the tenth-place film from seven days ago was edged out and relegated to eleventh place this weekend. The film departs the top ten with an eight-week total of $195.9 million earned for A24.

Weekend Box Office
(July 17th – July 19th)

    1. The Odyssey…$124.5 Million
    2. Moana…$19.0 Million
    3. Minions & Monsters…$14.8 Million
    4. Toy Story 5…$14.8 Million
    5. Evil Dead Burn…$5.0 Million
    6. The Invite…$3.9 Million
    7. Young Washington…$3.7 Million
    8. Obsession…$2.5 Million
    9. Supergirl…$1.5 Million
    10. Disclosure Day…$1.4 Million
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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