Hello! Welcome to TheBox Office Report for the weekend of July 24-26, 2026.
1. The Odyssey
Weekend gross: $87M Total domestic gross: $286.4M Last weekend: 1st Percent drop: 30
The legend of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey will be told for generations. (Or, at least until Spider-Man: Brand New Day comes out next weekend.) The film continues to defy all expectations for an R-rated, non-franchise film.
Thanks to a ridiculous 30 percent weekend-to-weekend drop, The Odyssey grossed an estimated $87 million this weekend. That’s the biggest second weekend for any Nolan film, easily surpassing The Dark Knight’s $75.2 million second frame.
Through just two weekends, The Odyssey’s domestic gross is already higher than Dunkirk ($190.1 million), Interstellar ($204.5 million) and Batman Begins ($205.3 million). Inception ($293.7 million) is all that stands between The Odyssey and the $300 million mark on Nolan’s domestic rankings.
The only problem facing The Odyssey seems to be the shaky state of our nation’s IMAX technology. The 70mm IMAX projector at the King of Prussia Regal went down at the end of last week, ruining the movie-going plans for people who had bought a ticket at one of just 25 theaters in the country with a 70mm IMAX projector. Not great for a technology that’s already scrounging together old parts and that engineers don’t even have the original plans for anymore.
If you have a chance or are still plotting how you’re going to see The Odyssey, it’s absolutely worth catching it on the most massive IMAX screen you can find. I saw it at 9 p.m. last night on the six-story high Airbus IMAX in Chantilly, Va., and I’m so happy I went with that instead of the fake IMAX screen at my normal AMC.
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2. Live-action Moana remake
Weekend gross: $10.5M Total domestic gross: $102.5M Last weekend: 2nd Percent drop: 41
After its historically dismal opening weekend, the live-action Moana remake has managed to hobble its way past the $100 million mark, holding onto second place in back-to-back weekends.
The remake is still falling at a faster pace than Toy Story 5, which when the final numbers come in on Monday, could actually wind up ahead of Dwayne Johnson’s Moana redo. Less than a million dollars separates the estimates for the films that finished between No. 2 and No. 5 this weekend.
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Weekend gross: $10M Total domestic gross: $448.6M Last weekend: 3rd Percent drop: 27
After six weekends, it’s clear that Toy Story 5 is the preferred animated/family movie of the summer. It’s never fallen below No. 3, and only dropped 27 percent between its fifth and sixth weekends. Toy Story 5 has already seen Minions & Monsters fall below it, and it’s likely that the live-action Moana remake will do the same.
Toy Story 5 also moved up to No. 4 on Pixar’s all-time domestic chart, passing Toy Story 4’s $434 million.
4. Hadestown: The Musical
Weekend gross: $9.7M Total domestic gross: $9.7M Last weekend: New release Percent drop: NA
The Odyssey isn’t the only movie based on a Greek myth making box office waves this weekend. Hadestown: The Musical came in at No. 4, with the film version of the musical getting in the mix with the live-action Moana remake, Toy Story 5 and Minions & Monsters.
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Weekend gross: $9.6M Total domestic gross: $155.4M Last weekend: 4th Percent drop: 29
With four weekends in the books, it looks like Minions & Monsters might be the first film in the Despicable Me/Minions franchise to not crack $200 million in North America. This is an even bigger deal when you realize that only two of these movies — the original Despicable Me at $252.8 million and Despicable Me 3 at $264.6 million — didn’t hit $300 million.
Box office numbers via The Numbers and Box Office Mojo based on Sunday estimates.
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