As with last weekend, much of that sum is from premium large format screens. IMAX screens alone accounted for US$48 million of the global earnings this weekend. The coveted 70mm IMAX screens, of which there are only 41 worldwide, earned US$5.2 million. Most of those showtimes are sold out through September, the company said.<\/p>\n
There was no significant new competition this weekend or last. Regardless, the second weekend earnings is rare for a movie that opened over US$100 million. For an R-rated movie, it\u2019s second only to Deadpool & Wolverine.<\/p>\n
But the open waters will become a little more crowded next weekend when audiences get another blockbuster option with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which shares actors Tom Holland and Zendaya with The Odyssey. Some analysts say that Spider-Man could net the biggest opening weekend of the year. Still, Nolan\u2019s film will have its run of most IMAX screens for weeks to come.<\/p>\n
Second and third place went to Disney releases, Moana, with US$10.5 million, and Toy Story 5 close behind with US$10 million. The latter surpassed US$1 billion in its fifth weekend, with US$448 million from North American theatres and US$573 million from international screens. It\u2019s the sixth Pixar film to hit the milestone.<\/p>\n
Bleecker Street\u2019s release of Hadestown: The Musical, a live stage recording of the show, rounded out the top five with US$9.7 million in its first weekend. The hit Broadway show uses folk and jazz to tell an ancient Greek tale.<\/p>\n
Olivia Wilde\u2019s chamber dramedy The Invite also continues to do well in its platform release, with another US$2.6 million that brings its running total to US$19.8 million.<\/p>\n
The year overall is running about 10 per cent ahead of last year, and the summer box office this weekend surpassed US$3 billion. Before the pandemic, the summer movie season would regularly exceed US$4 billion. The only other time it has since was the Barbenheimer in 2023. Dergarabedian is cautiously optimistic that it could be within reach this summer too.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a pretty heavy lift for August, but this could be a mega August given the staying power of The Odyssey coupled with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, he said. \u201cFor The Odyssey it\u2019s a marathon, it\u2019s not a sprint. It\u2019s a marathon run that\u2019ll play well into August.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As with last weekend, much of that sum is from premium large format screens. IMAX screens alone accounted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,1973,344,24268,73965],"class_list":["post-826475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-odyssey","tag-television-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}