Box Office Report for the Week of August 9

It’s another milestone weekend for both Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, dominating the competition like it’s not even funny. Both Will Gluck’s One Night Only and Jay Chandrasekhar‘s Super Troopers 3 barely made anything, respectively earning $5.7 and 4.0 million on their openings over the still-dominating summer blockbusters, each starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jon Bernthal.

For The Odyssey, the movie is on track to become the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, eyeing a $1.4 billion worldwide finish. As of this writing, however, it is now the highest-grossing movie of Christopher Nolan’s career, surpassing The Dark Knight Rises at $1.105 billion. It will also likely surpass Deadpool & Wolverine and set a new standard for large-scale blockbusters.

For Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the movie set a record as the highest-grossing domestic opening weekend of all time and reached $1 billion in record time. It is also on track to become the third post-COVID film to reach $2 billion, alongside James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water and Ne Zha 2. It’s a massive win for cinemas around the world, who have been waiting for blockbusters to make a significant comeback, and it looks like we finally have a healthy box office after many years of uncertainty.

So far, five films have hit the $1 billion mark (The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Michael, and Toy Story 5 have also reached that milestone), and there were many independent movies that overperformed expectations, including Curry Barker‘s Obsession, Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, and Olivia Wilde’s The Invite. This is the sign of a healthy marketplace, something most of us haven’t seen since 2019, and whoever wrote off the theatrical experience during COVID sure looks (very) stupid now, don’t they?

In fact, a year ago, Netflix’s CEO Ted Sarandos called the idea of going to movie theatres “outmoded,” and just last week, they announced a 45-day exclusive theatrical window for their Oscar hopeful La bola negra, which will be making the rounds at the fall festivals after premiering at Cannes this May. The film will release on October 16 in cinemas and make its way to the streaming service on December 2.

After over a decade of attempting to convince moviegoers to stay home (which has only truly worked during the COVID-19 lockdowns), Netflix finally seems to be getting the message that the future of movies will always be in cinemas and that the movies, as a communal experience, are back for good.

Here is the full list of the top ten films of the weekend:

1. Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Sony): $145.0M (-60%) – 4,487 theatres
2. The Odyssey (Universal): $31.5M (-38%) – 3,603 theatres
3. One Night Only (Universal): $5.7M – 3,012 theatres
4. Super Troopers 3 (Disney): $4.0M – 2,760 theatres
5. Toy Story 5 (Disney): $3.9M (-42%) – 2,660 theatres
6. Minions & Monsters (Universal): $3.5M (-42%) – 2,451 theatres
7. Moana (Disney): $2.8M (-50%) – 2,465 theatres
8. Ice Cream Man (The Horror Section): $2.0M – 1,671 theatres
9. The Invite (A24): $717.568 (-44%) – 342 theatres
10. CatVideoFest 2026 (Oscilloscope Pictures): $568.414 – 255 theatres

Source: Comscore