‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Dominates Again With $1.67 Billion Worldwide as Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Sets Career Box-Office Record

Hollywood’s 2026 box office continues to surge, led by two enormous blockbusters that are rewriting theatrical records.

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” maintained its extraordinary momentum during its second weekend in theaters, earning approximately $144.5 million domestically, while Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide and became the highest-grossing movie of the filmmaker’s career, not adjusted for inflation.

According to studio estimates released Sunday, the Sony-Marvel superhero film has now earned an astonishing $1.67 billion worldwide after only 10 days in release.

Its North American performance has been particularly remarkable.

Across theaters in the United States and Canada, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has accumulated approximately $655.1 million, reaching that total faster than any previous film in the domestic market.

International audiences have been equally enthusiastic.

Overseas ticket sales have already surpassed $1 billion, putting the movie on a trajectory toward becoming one of the biggest global blockbusters in cinema history.

The film needed only seven days to become the highest-grossing movie of 2026.

That achievement allowed it to quickly overtake Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” which had previously led the year with approximately $1.07 billion worldwide.

The second-weekend performance also represented a historic achievement for Sony.

No Sony release had previously earned more than $100 million during its second domestic weekend.

“Brand New Day” came extremely close to breaking the all-time record for a movie’s sophomore weekend, finishing just behind “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which collected $149.2 million during its second weekend in 2015.

While Spider-Man continued to dominate the market, Christopher Nolan reached a major milestone of his own.

‘The Odyssey’ Becomes Nolan’s Biggest Movie Ever

Nolan’s ambitious adaptation of Homer’s legendary epic “The Odyssey” added another $31.5 million domestically during its fourth weekend.

The Universal Pictures release has now earned approximately $1.1 billion globally.

That makes “The Odyssey” Nolan’s first film to pass the billion-dollar threshold since “The Dark Knight Rises” in 2012.

More significantly, it has become the director’s highest-grossing movie ever in raw box-office revenue.

“The Odyssey” has now surpassed the approximately $1.08 billion earned by “The Dark Knight Rises,” as well as the roughly $1 billion generated by 2009’s “The Dark Knight.”

Nolan narrowly missed the billion-dollar milestone with his previous major success, “Oppenheimer,” which finished its theatrical run with approximately $975 million worldwide.

One of the biggest contributors to the success of “The Odyssey” has been premium-format screenings, particularly IMAX.

The movie has generated approximately $147.3 million domestically from IMAX screens, making it the company’s highest-grossing domestic release ever.

And the movie’s international run is not finished.

“The Odyssey” is scheduled to open in China on Friday, giving the film access to one of the world’s most significant theatrical markets and potentially pushing its worldwide total even higher.

Hollywood Heads Toward Its Strongest Post-Pandemic Year

The combined success of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” has contributed to what is shaping up to be Hollywood’s strongest box-office year since the pandemic.

According to Rentrak, theatrical ticket sales are currently running approximately 18.5% ahead of last year.

Five movies have already crossed the $1 billion worldwide mark in 2026, the highest number of billion-dollar films in a single year since 2019.

In addition to “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” “The Odyssey” and “Toy Story 5,” the year’s other billion-dollar releases include “Michael” and “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”

Summer box-office revenue is also approaching another psychologically important benchmark.

Rentrak forecasts that total summer theatrical revenue will reach approximately $4 billion on Monday.

Through Sunday, the season was reportedly only $14.8 million short of that figure.

Historically, a $4 billion summer has been viewed as a sign of a particularly healthy theatrical marketplace.

Since the pandemic, the only summer season to surpass that level was 2023, when the simultaneous success of “Barbie” and Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” created the cultural phenomenon widely known as “Barbenheimer.”

New Comedies Struggle Against the Blockbusters

While Spider-Man and “The Odyssey” continued to attract huge crowds, two new comedy releases attempted to provide counterprogramming.

Neither managed to seriously challenge the blockbuster leaders.

Universal’s “One Night Only,” directed by Will Gluck, opened in third place with approximately $5.7 million.

The romantic comedy stars Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner and takes place in a fictional world where premarital sex is prohibited except for one night each year.

The movie reportedly cost approximately $25 million to produce.

Critical reaction was mixed-to-negative, with the film receiving a 46% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although audiences appeared somewhat more positive, awarding it a “B+” CinemaScore.

In fourth place was Fox Searchlight’s “Super Troopers 3.”

The third installment in the comedy franchise created by the Broken Lizard troupe debuted with approximately $4 million.

Limited Releases Deliver Strong Per-Theater Numbers

Away from the nationwide blockbusters, two smaller films generated impressive results in limited release.

A24’s “Tony,” starring Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain, earned approximately $348,955.

That translated to an average of $58,159 per theater, one of the strongest per-screen openings of the year.

Mubi also found success with “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” the latest film from “I Saw the TV Glow” filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun.

Opening across only five screens, the movie posted an average of approximately $50,300 per location.

Domestic Box Office Top 10

Final domestic figures were expected Monday, but based on estimated Friday-through-Sunday ticket sales from theaters in the United States and Canada, Rentrak listed the weekend’s top 10 films as:

1. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” — $145 million
2. “The Odyssey” — $31.5 million
3. “One Night Only” — $5.7 million
4. “Super Troopers 3” — $4 million
5. “Toy Story 5” — $3.9 million
6. “Minions & Monsters” — $3.5 million
7. “Moana” — $2.8 million
8. “Ice Cream Man” — $2 million
9. “The Invite” — $717,568
10. “CatVideoFest 2026” — $568,414

For now, the story of the 2026 summer box office belongs overwhelmingly to Spider-Man and Christopher Nolan.

One movie is racing toward the upper ranks of the biggest global releases ever, while the other has officially delivered the highest-grossing film of Nolan’s career.

And with “The Odyssey” still preparing to enter China, both films may have considerably more box-office history left to make.