The Odyssey 2026 has entered a countdown to 10 million admissions, continuing its unbowed momentum in its fourth week after release.
On the 28th, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) integrated cinema ticketing system, the film The Odyssey 2026 (director Christopher Nolan, distributed by Universal Pictures) drew 150,092 viewers the previous day, bringing its cumulative audience to 7,806,294.
Moreover, as of 9 a.m. that day, realtime reservations exceeded 500,000 tickets. Considering that 1,321,175 viewers watched The Odyssey 2026 over last weekend (the 21st–23rd), The Odyssey 2026 is expected to surpass 9 million viewers over this weekend.
The Odyssey 2026, which opened domestically on the 5th and immediately took first place at the box office, has entered its fourth week and has not relinquished the top spot even once, continuing its overwhelming success.
According to Box Office Mojo, currently Spider-Man: Brand New Day (director Destin Creighton, presented/distributed by Sony Pictures) has earned $2,232,609,757 in worldwide box office revenue (about 3.0825 trillion won), breaking the record for the second-highest North American box office of all time. The Odyssey 2026 follows with $1,456,145,500 in global revenue (about 2.0072 trillion won).
Thus, while overseas enthusiasm for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is higher, and domestically it has already surpassed 8 million viewers, there had been expectations that Spider-Man: Brand New Day would be the second film of 2026 to reach 10 million viewers.
However, unlike the general trend of ticket reservations gradually decreasing as time passes after release, The Odyssey 2026 maintained its opening weekend audience (1,333,464) through the third weekend and into the fourth week has shown an unbowed reservation trend, with daily reservations exceeding 500,000. Having far surpassed the simultaneous-period records of past blockbuster hits that drew 10 million viewers, such as The Outlaws, The Roundup and Assassination, The Odyssey 2026 is expected to surpass 10 million viewers ahead of Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Meanwhile, The Odyssey 2026 earned an opening-week revenue of $264,100,000 (about 364 billion won), comfortably exceeding its production cost. In addition, it surpassed $1.1 billion globally within three weeks of its release, becoming the highest-grossing Christopher Nolan film of all time.
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