In the search for another Barbenheimer, all eyes were on Dunesday later this year, when Dune Part 3 and Avengers: Doomsday were expected to combine to rule the box office. Maybe we should have been looking closer to the horizon, as it seems we have Spiderssey right now. Or is that Ody-Man? This is why I don’t work for a female-centric publication. I can’t come up with names for this pointless stuff. I also physically recoil from phrases like “glow-up” and “clap back”.
Anyway, the two-punch box office juggernaut that is Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey continue to simply destroy all before them.
More milestones have fallen. Spider-Man has now passed $2 billion in global ticket sales after just three weekends of release. It is the second-fastest film to reach that level after Avengers: Endgame. That took 11 days, Spider-Man took 17 days. On this trajectory, it is on track to become one of the top-grossing movies of all time. This is $785 million domestically and $1.23 billion overseas.
Only eight films in history have passed that hurdle.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, providing the grown-up counterprogramming to superhero shenanigans, has also passed the $500 million domestic bar with $504 million. It now sits at just over $1.29 billion and ensures Nolan the pick of projects and final cut for a long, long time to come.
Elsewhere at the box office, it is simply a case of making up the numbers this summer.
The End Of Oak Street came third with $21 million. This was followed by Paw Patrol: A Dino Movie with $20.5 million. In 5th place was something called Katseye: Wild Hearts with $4 million, whatever the f*ck that is.
Summer season is drawing to a close now, so all eyes will turn to streaming and TV before December arrives and Dunesday becomes a thing.
