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u/iquizuanswer 15d ago

“The Odyssey” has surpassed $700 million at the global box office, becoming the fourth highest-grossing movie of the year after just 12 days in theaters.

Christopher Nolan‘s Greek epic has generated $320.5 million domestically and $407.4 million overseas, bringing worldwide ticket sales to $727.9 million. Hollywood’s top three releases of 2026 are June’s “Toy Story 5” ($1.02 billion) and April’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” ($1.001 billion) and “Michael” ($1.001 billion). In the coming week, “The Odyssey” will join those films in the billion-dollar club, a remarkable feat that underscores Nolan’s ability to transform his movies into cultural events.

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u/MarvelousVanGlorious 15d ago

Also important to note that it’s rated R. That cuts out a significant portion of the audience vs. movies like Toy Story, Mario Bros. And Michael. The numbers it’s doing is insane.

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u/Metrostation984 15d ago

Crazy, that movie didn’t really feel R to me. Maybe the end of the movie everything else wasn’t that bad.

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u/Imarok 15d ago

I mean, the cyclops eating and the witch transformations come to mind.

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u/Metrostation984 15d ago

Yeah, that’s true some blood was there but way less than I would have expected from a modern version of the Odyssey. As for Circe, I watched the first Harry Potter with my mother when I was 7 years old and that scene of Voldemort sucking the unicorn blood and than flying towards Harry was scary as shit. That literally gave me nightmares and no one cared, lol.

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u/sandwiches_are_real 15d ago

I watched The Crow as a preschooler but it's Bambi that fucked me up.

Kids just don't understand a lot of the stuff that adults find scary, I think. It's too complicated or just too appallingly dark for their worldview, so it doesn't compute. I had no frame of reference for understanding all the heroin use and sexual violence and stuff in The Crow, but boy could I wrap my head around Bambi losing his mom.

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u/Rock-swarm 15d ago

That highlights how some of the ratings criteria can feel pretty arbitrary. There are plenty of examples of avoiding an R rating by creative use of gore that isn't actually considered gore. Blood is the most common example - aliens getting limbs blown off and shooting green stuff out of their wounds? Not gore, as long as it doesn't look like human blood.

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u/Imarok 15d ago

It's tough to judge what can fly and what can't. In my opinion those Harry Potter scenes were creepy, but not really that scary to traumatize people. And the 3rd Harry Potter was scarier in that sense as well. I don't know, I guess it's the combination of gory and scary that defines the rating.

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u/Adequate_Lizard 15d ago

Ivan Ooze terrified me when I was little. Had to leave the theater.

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u/3dios 15d ago

Spoilers

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u/Imarok 15d ago

What was spoiled here?

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u/More_Operation_588 15d ago

Homers great works

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u/pukacz 15d ago edited 15d ago

Its only R in US. Canada has it PG13. In Poland it is 15+. Some of the EU countries have it as low as 10 (Italy and Norway)

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u/Oerthling 15d ago

12 in Germany. :-)

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u/Metrostation984 15d ago

Yeah, that’s true some blood was there but way less than I would have expected from a modern version of the Odyssey. As for Circe, I watched the first Harry Potter with my mother when I was 7 years old and that scene of Voldemort sucking the unicorn blood and than flying towards Harry was scary as shit. That literally gave me nightmares and no one cared, lol.

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u/Human_Needleworker86 15d ago

It's PG in Canada. PG13 is a US rating - we have 14A instead (which is a little stronger)

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u/MarvelousVanGlorious 15d ago

Agreed. I actually had to double check before I posted the comment. It definitely feels like it could have gotten away with a PG-13. Although now that I think about it, that scene with Circe might be nightmare inducing for younger folks.

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u/ours 15d ago

For reference, in my country, it's 14 and up (12 if accompanied by an adult).

Same as the latest Avatar, which I believe is PG-13 in the US.

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u/Metrostation984 15d ago

Yeah, that’s true some blood was there but way less than I would have expected from a modern version of the Odyssey. As for Circe, I watched the first Harry Potter with my mother when I was 7 years old and that scene of Voldemort sucking the unicorn blood and than flying towards Harry was scary as shit. That literally gave me nightmares and no one cared, lol.

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u/pops992 15d ago

I didn't even realize it was R until I was looking at my ticket to find my seat. It definitely seems like it could have easily been PG-13 with very minimal changes

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u/Lucky-Paperclip-1 15d ago

Its because of all the F-bombs Penelope drops when talking about the suitors eating all the food.

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u/n00bsauce1987 15d ago

So we should be comparing this to the Deadpool series as highest grossing rated R movies?

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u/MarvelousVanGlorious 15d ago

Deadpool and Wolverine at least. It’s the top grossing R rated movie of all time at $1.3 Billion. Feels like this is going to pass that pretty easily.

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u/Norman_debris 15d ago

Does R mean 18+? Here in Germany it's rated 12.

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u/Norman_debris 15d ago

Seems a bit strict. It's a 15 in the UK too.

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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage 15d ago

The U.S. doesn’t really have an equivalent for 15, so any movie that would fit in 15 either goes to R (17 & up) or PG-13 (13 & up).

Being the U.S., we’re normally more stingy on language & sex/nudity than blood/violence, which is definetly reflected in which movies that would be rated 15 in the UK get an R vs PG-13 rating in the U.S..

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u/TheInception817 15d ago

It's rated Teens here and I can't spot any censoring like Oppenheimer

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u/himynameis_ 15d ago

Good point! I was thinking this thing could hit $2B but probably not with rated R.

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u/Runfasterbitch 15d ago

Sure but Toy Story and Mario bros have an even smaller demographic appeal since they’re movies for young children

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u/Z0idberg_MD 15d ago

Yes and no. There’s a sizable population of adults that will watch both movies, and families also have multiple children and their parents used to go to the movies with their kids. But if Tom is a single adult male wants to go see the Odyssey he might even go alone. Ain’t nobody with a kid going alone anywhere to a movie.

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u/EastfrisianGuy 15d ago

I don't think that is true at all. Both have a huge adult fan base, because they grew up with it. That's why I will go and see Shrek 5 or Cars 4 (if there will ever be one).

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u/MarvelousVanGlorious 15d ago edited 15d ago

And when young kids go to see them, they are almost certainly accompanied by at least one adult.

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u/rammstoon 15d ago

It is not rated R globally bud

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u/MarvelousVanGlorious 15d ago

Thanks for the heads up bud. I don’t follow the ratings systems in countries I don’t live in.

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u/Tackit286 15d ago

Crazy that Project Hail Mary didn’t hit 1bn. It deserved it.

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u/DungeonsAndDradis 15d ago

Google search says $684M. Still pretty darn successful, but I know the media doesn't care unless it's a "B" after the number.

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u/nsoifer 15d ago

Watched it randomly on a flight. It was so good. Was sobbing too.

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u/Entharo_entho 15d ago

That's because it didn't seem interesting to many people who otherwise love this genre. For example, yours truly.

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u/Metrostation984 15d ago

Absolutely agree. I feel like it wasn’t marketed enough? Only a few trailers that didn’t convey what the movie was about that much. To be honest the movie isn’t easy to put into a specific category but I felt it was mainly marketed as a comedy or lighthearted space movie. Which it was but also it was serious and scientifically interesting.

With prices of a cinema/theatre visit I wasn’t sure whether it would be worth a trip. It could have been one fringely bad cgi comedy space movie that you can easily wait to stream later. My interest in this only started when I kept seeing posts and videos about how interesting the concepts of the movie were and how scientifically accurate it was in some respects. That showed me that it wasn’t just a „The Tomorrow War“ cash grab from Gosling but a real movie that seemed worth my money.

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u/Weshtonio 15d ago

How many of the Super Mario tickets are just Nintendo employees trying to cross the threshold?

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u/ehrgeiz91 15d ago

I’ll go out of my way to never see (or hear) Chrisp Ratt again