• by Wayne Friedman , Yesterday

Universal Pictures' “The Odyssey” rocketed to another big weekend with $87 million in domestic revenues, according to estimates from Comscore. 

The second week of the Christopher Nolan-directed film claimed one of the strongest second weekends for an R-rated movie, with no major studio wide-release film openings in the most recent weekend.

This follows up its leading $123.5 million opening of a week ago -- the biggest weekend opening for any movie so far in 2026. The movie’s box-office revenue declined just 30% week-over-week -- a very low week-to-week decline.

In each of the seven-day periods, “The Odyssey” pulled in double the number of advertising impressions versus the next-highest ad-spending films. In the most recent week, this amounted to 349.8 million impressions while during the previous week the movie tallied 430.1 million impressions.

Overall, domestic national TV ad spend (and media value from ad placement on NBCU networks) for “The Odyssey” is now at $28.9 million, according to estimates from iSpot -- the second-highest ad spend for any domestic release so far this year, after NBCU’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” at $29.8 million.

"The Odyssey" had major advertising time on NBCUniversal networks/platforms on sports and other programming. NBCU is a sister company of Universal Pictures.

TV advertising was placed on NBA Basketball, FIFA World Cup 2026, “America’s Got Talent” NFL Football and the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.

Two Walt Disney films -- “Moana” and “Toy Story 5” -- took in $10.5 million and $10.0 million, respectively, for the most recent weekend.