Box Office: ‘The Odyssey’ Bound For Best Monday In 2026 With $17M+

EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey continues to dominate the box office today, fueling a Monday that’s estimated to be $17.5M.

If those figures stick, that will be the best Monday year-to-date, besting Toy Story 5‘s $17.3M Monday on June 22, as well as that of the highest grossing live-action pic so far in 2026, which was Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu‘s Memorial Day Monday of $16.4M.

Among Nolan movies on a Monday, The Odyssey ranks third behind Dark Knight ($24.4M, July 21, 2008) and Dark Knight Rises ($19.3M, July 23, 2012). Oppenheimer‘s first Monday minted $12.67M.

Look around, and Imax seats are hard to get in the box office capitals of Los Angeles and NYC. TCL’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd (which was the Nolan’s pic’s highest grossing theatre over the weekend with $523K; not to mention The Odyssey was the venue’s biggest opening weekend of all-time beating Star Wars: Force Awakens‘ $455K) has hardly any seats available for the 7PM Imax 70MM show tonight in the main theater while the 10:55PM show has the first two rows open. Over at AMC Lincoln Center in NYC, it’s similar scenario with sellouts or near sellouts in Imax auditoriums. At Regal’s new shiny revamped Sherman Oaks Galleria, Imax seats are hard to get tonight, but their luxurious RPX Barco No. 1 auditorium has plenty of seats available at the time of this post for both the 5:45PM and 9:40PM show.

The running cume through four days for the feature take of Homer’s poem stands at $141M domestic, 48% higher than Oppenheimer over its Friday-Monday. That multi-Oscar winning movie ended its North American run at $330M. The 3-day came in slightly lower (but still holding the record for the best live-action pic opening this year for North America) at $123.5M versus the reported $124.5M. International was higher at $140.2M (versus reported $139.6M) putting the global debut at $263.7M, still the best that Nolan has ever seen in his career ahead of Dark Knight Rises WW $249M global opening and foreign start.

Estimates tonight come from sources. Universal didn’t respond to request for comment.