'The Odyssey' Scores the Best Monday Box Office of 2026

The strong box office run of The Odyssey continues to pay off. Christopher Nolan’s epic had the highest-grossing Monday for any 2026 film so far. Yesterday (20), it brought in another US$ 17.5 million for Universal in the U.S. alone.

The 2026 record was previously being held by Toy Story 5, that grossed US$ 17.3 million on June 22.

This is also the third-best Monday of Nolan’s career, behind The Dark Knight (US$ 24.4 million on July 21, 2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (US$ 19.3 million on July 23, 2012).

Everything you neeed to know about The Odyssey

The film is yet another adaptation of Homer’s classic heroic poem, a continuation of the Iliad that tells the story of Odysseus, who spends 10 years trying to return home to Ithaca after victory in the 10-year war at Troy. Enraged, the god of the seas, Poseidon, does everything he can to keep him from returning to his wife, Penelope.

Matt Damon plays Odysseus. Anne Hathaway plays the character’s wife, Penelope. Meanwhile, Tom Holland plays Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, with Zendaya playing the goddess Athena, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Robert Pattinson as Antinous, Benny Safdie as Agamemnon, and Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra — or Clitemnestra —, Agamemnon’s wife. 

The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.