Christopher Nolan has officially outdone himself.
After years of The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar and Oppenheimer dominating the conversation around the filmmaker's biggest achievements, The Odyssey has now sailed past them all to become Nolan's highest-grossing movie ever at the worldwide box office.
The Universal epic has climbed to a staggering $1.1 billion globally after just four weekends in theaters, according to Deadline. That includes $461.1 million from North America and another $643.6 million internationally.
Most importantly, the haul pushes The Odyssey past Nolan's previous worldwide champion, 2012's The Dark Knight Rises, which finished with approximately $1.085 billion.
In other words, it took Nolan 14 years to finally beat Batman.
And the records don't stop there.
The Odyssey is now reportedly the highest-grossing movie of Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Robert Pattinson's careers worldwide, giving three already massive Hollywood stars a new personal box-office best.
For Damon, who leads Nolan's adaptation of Homer's ancient epic, that makes the film an especially huge career milestone.
The movie has also become the second-highest-grossing R-rated film of all time worldwide, trailing only Deadpool & Wolverine, which earned approximately $1.33 billion globally. It is currently the highest-grossing R-rated movie of 2026 both domestically and worldwide.
Nolan himself has entered some rarefied territory as well. Collectively, his films have now generated more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office.
Universal Pictures certainly isn't complaining about its relationship with the Oscar-winning filmmaker. The studio now owns Nolan's biggest-ever movie as well as Oppenheimer, which earned $975.8 million worldwide and won seven Academy Awards.
"Christopher Nolan has earned audiences' trust by consistently delivering must-see theatrical events, and The Odyssey is him operating at the peak of his powers," Universal's President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution Jim Orr said.
Universal Pictures International distribution president Veronika Kwan Vandenberg similarly credited Nolan's worldwide following, calling him uniquely suited to bring Homer's famous story to the screen.
The blockbuster has also received an A CinemaScore, another sign that audiences aren't merely showing up because Nolan's name is on the poster.
Still, The Odyssey hasn't conquered 2026 completely.
The movie currently sits behind Sony/Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Brand New Day at the yearly global box office, with the superhero blockbuster continuing its own monster theatrical run. Toy Story 5 is also among this year's billion-dollar giants.
But The Odyssey has already crossed a threshold few films ever reach - and it did so with an R rating, an ancient Greek story and a filmmaker whose name has increasingly become a franchise unto itself.
For Nolan, the irony is hard to miss.
Batman once gave him his biggest movie.
Now Homer has taken the crown.
