Box-Office Weekend: THE ODYSSEY Repeats

Christopher Nolan and The Odyssey retained control of the top spot of the box-office weekend for a second consecutive week as the film finished $76.5 million ahead of its closest competition.

“The Odyssey” posterDuring its second weekend in release, The Odyssey made another $87.0 million for Universal Pictures, holding onto first place and bringing the film’s overall total to $286.4 million. Meanwhile, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw its Moana remain in second place with $10.5 million, giving the film a three-week total of $102.5 million. Just behind that, Disney’s second film in the top ten, Toy Story 5 jumped up a spot to claim third place with $10.0 million in its sixth week of release. This brings the film’s overall total to $448.6 million for the studio. Fourth place saw the $9.7 million debut of Bleecker Street Media’s Hadestown: The Musical. After a third-place finish last weekend, Universal Pictures’ Minions & Monsters dropped two spots to land in fifth place where it added $9.6 million to lift the film’s four-week total to $155.4 million.

Holding its ground and remaining in sixth place with $2.63 million taken in over the weekend was A24’s The Invite as the film brought its five-week total to $19.8 million for the studio. Following a fifth-place finish a week ago, the Warner Bros. release of Evil Dead Burn fell to seventh place where it brought in $2.61 million for the studio, giving the film a three-week total of $29.2 million. Meanwhile, Angel’s Young Washington dropped a spot to land in eighth place where it brought in $2.1 million for the studio, lifting the film’s four-week total to $45.1 million. Ninth place was claimed by the debut of Motor City which took in $1.6 million for IFC Films in its first weekend of release. Finally, following an eighth-place finish a week ago, Obsession dropped to tenth place where it brought in $1.5 million for Focus Features, giving the film an eleven-week tally of $261. 4 million.

This weekend, the two films at the bottom of last week’s top ten both dropped from this weekend’s list. After five weeks in release, Supergirl brought in a disappointing $71.5 million for Warner Bros., leading to the film’s early appearance on screening services in the not too distant future. Meanwhile, Universal Pictures saw Disclosure Day bring in a total of $116.1 million over the last seven weeks before the film left the top ten.

Weekend Box Office
(July 24th – July 26th)

    1. The Odyssey…$87.0 Million
    2. Moana…$10.5 Million
    3. Toy Story 5…$10.0 Million
    4. Hadestown: The Musical…$9.7 Million
    5. Minions & Monsters…$9.6 Million
    6. The Invite…$2.63 Million
    7. Evil Dead Burn…$2.61 Million
    8. Young Washington…$2.1 Million
    9. Motor City…$1.6 Million
    10. Obsession…$1.5 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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