Nolan's The Odyssey Tops $1.1bn, His Biggest Film Ever
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- The Odyssey has grossed $1.104bn globally, surpassing The Dark Knight Rises ($1.085bn) to become Christopher Nolan's highest-grossing film, achieved less than a month after its July 17 release.
- Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Robert Pattinson now each count The Odyssey as the highest-grossing film of their individual careers.
- Universal Pictures has placed three films in the $1bn-plus global club this year, with The Odyssey joining The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and the Michael Jackson biopic Michael.
- Nolan's filmography has now collectively grossed more than $7bn worldwide across blockbusters including Tenet, Dunkirk, Interstellar and the Dark Knight trilogy.
- The film's $250m production budget excludes marketing costs, making it one of the most expensive productions of Nolan's career.
- Jim Orr and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, Universal's domestic and international distribution presidents, attributed the success to Nolan's track record of delivering "must-see theatrical events."
Why it matters: Nolan's $250m-budget adaptation of Homer outpaced his two Dark Knight sequels within a month of release. Universal now counts three $1bn-plus films in a single year, and three A-list leads — Damon, Hathaway, Pattinson — each just logged their personal career-best gross from one movie.
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