{"id":725390,"date":"2026-08-03T03:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725390\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:38:14","slug":"universal-first-studio-to-cross-4b-ww-in-2026-odyssey-eyes-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725390\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal First Studio to Cross $4B WW In 2026, &#8216;Odyssey&#8217; Eyes $1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDisney was the first to cross $3 billion worldwide in 2026 among all the Hollywood majors at the end of June, but <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/universal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_universal\" data-tag=\"universal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Universal<\/a> is the first studio YTD to cross $4 billion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis comes as Christopher Nolan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-odyssey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-odyssey\" data-tag=\"the-odyssey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a>, three weekends in, approaches $1 billion, the running global cume now at $911M. Odyssey\u2018s third global weekend of $136.2M was powered by $68M from Imax screens, which for the large format exhibitor is their second highest grossing weekend ever. Odyssey had all Imax screens in a Spider-Man: Brand New Day $927M global grossing weekend except in China, Japan and Korea where the Nolan pic hasn\u2019t launched yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis is the first time since 2023 that Universal has reached the $4 billion milestone and the fifth time it has crossed this mark in the studio\u2019s history. Last year, Warner Bros was the first to cross $4 billion even though Disney won out the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBroken out, Uni counts $1.53\u00a0billion domestically and\u00a0$2.48\u00a0billion internationally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAmong the key achievements for Universal so far:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u2014Only three films have crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide to date in 2026, with Universal releases representing two of them (The Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u00a0and\u00a0Michael).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u2014Universal has led the global weekend box office for 10 weekends in 2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u2014Universal and Focus account for five of the Top 10 highest-grossing films worldwide in 2026, including three of the Top Five\u00a0(Michael\u00a0at No. 2,\u00a0The Super Mario Galaxy\u00a0at No. 3,\u00a0The Odyssey\u00a0at No. 4,\u00a0Obsession\u00a0at No. 9 and\u00a0Minions &amp; Monsters\u00a0at No. 10).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u2014Three of the Top Five\u00a0highest-grossing films worldwide in 2026 are distributed internationally by Universal (The Odyssey,\u00a0The Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u00a0and\u00a0Michael).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u2014For anyone who forgot, Obsession\u00a0is officially Focus Features\u2019 highest-grossing movie ever worldwide, as well as Blumhouse Atomic Monster\u2019s highest-grossing film, with $475M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney was the first to cross $3 billion worldwide in 2026 among all the Hollywood majors at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,22546,56,54,55,2831],"class_list":["post-725390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-the-odyssey","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-universal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}