Low-cost horror movie "Obsession" from first-time director Curry Barker is on track to become one of the most profitable films of all time, with the cinema sensation piling up global revenues of more than $400 million.

"In terms of the ratio between the worldwide box office and the production budget, 'Obsession' is going to be the biggest success of all time, which is extraordinary," Bruce Nash, founder of industry-tracking website The Numbers, told AFP.

Box office nerds will tell you that avatar which grossed 2.9 billion is the highest grossing film when it factually isn’t gone with the wind made 4.5 billion when you adjust it for inflation literally everything is adjusted for inflation except the box office according to them Superman 2025(618 million) made more money than Superman 1978 (300 million) but when you adjust it for inflation you will know that Reeve’s superman made significantly more money (1.45 billion in today’s money)

Russia and CIS box office Thursday, July 16. Russia only numbers for Michael to avoid confusion.

Local family comedy To Grandfather's Village 2 leads with $312k on Thursday and $321k including previews. Its opening weekend is projected at around $1.5 million, 15–20% lower than the first film's holiday opening a year ago.

Evil Dead Burn grossed $228k on Thursday and $241k including previews. An opening of around $1 million would be similar to the 2013 film, albeit with less than half the admissions. It is expected to rank as the 3rd or 4th biggest foreign market after India, the UK, and probably Mexico.

Michael added $160k yesterday, with a 28% week-to-week drop. An $860–880k 8th weekend is expected, bringing its total to $27.55 million by Monday

1972.5 mln RUB or $26.85 mln with 3,640,974 admissions in Russia.

2352.3 mln RUB or $31.98 mln with all CIS countries included. 4,588,341 admissions

No. 17 on the all-time chart and No. 5 among all foreign releases.

1. Avatar 3639.46 mlm RUB
2. Spider-Man: No Way Home 3513.63 mln RUB
3. Lion King 2998.51 mln RUB
4. Avengers: Endgame 2986.85 mln RUB
5. Michael 2352.3 mln RUB
6. Venom 2 2340.6 mln RUB
7. Pirates of the Caribbean 5 2325.73 mln RUB
8. Zootopia 2280.92 mln RUB
9. Now You See Me 3 2198.5 mln RUB
10. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 2185.25 mln RUB

The Odyssey will be released in CIS countries next week. Unofficially in Russia a couple of days later.

Jurassic World: Rebirth seems low but compared to the other titles, it did way bigger numbers in its first 2 days on Netflix. That's only showing day 3 to day 9 and "Song Sung Blue" missed the Nielsen Top 10 for its first 2 days on Netflix.

Venues screening The Odyssey this weekend include three IMAX 70mm locations, seven 70mm locations and 21 35mm locations.

It marks Nolan’s second collaboration with Universal Studios after 2023 Oscar winner Oppenheimer, which debuted with £10.9m from 662 locations – the second-biggest launch for the director, behind The Dark Knight Rises at £14.3 m in 2012.

Nolan’s other top openings include Dunkirk  (£10.1m), Inception (£5.9m) and Interstellar (£5.4m).

>The cast includes Korean actors Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung and Jung Ho-yeon, along with Hollywood actors Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Taylor Russell portraying the alien beings.

>Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho praised the film during a post-screening audience discussion held at Megabox Coex in southern Seoul on Wednesday.

>"'What on earth did I just watch?' was my first thought,” Bong said. “Once the thrill and cinematic shock settle, I have so many questions. It's an astonishing cinematic adventure.”

>Bong also thanked Na for his creative production.

>“Where else are we ever going to see a film like this?” Bong said. “It's a movie bursting with audacity and madness. As a fellow filmmaker, I'm sincerely grateful that you've given us such a spectacular vision of what cinema can be.”

That’s just the Warner Bros. courtship. Donna Langley, the NBCU Entertainment chair whose savvy in recruiting filmmakers led to this weekend’s The Odyssey from former Warners stalwart Chris Nolan, flew Parson to L.A. for a meeting earlier this month. Sony Pictures is setting up its own longshot get-together. And A24 is going hard after this one, almost certainly the most aggressively the indie studio has ever pursued a filmmaker. Which makes sense.

Now I know people are saying that "oh Digger is gonna be the next OBAA" or "it's gonna flop" which I don't agree with. Now I don't think it will make that kind of numbers that The Revenant did at the box office, but I do feel like it will break even (312-375), but I'm also hoping it will surpass the break even point at the box office because if you think about it. Tom Cruise last movies even if they were flops because of massive budgets due to covid and the strikes, but if you take that away Mission 7 and 8 would still be successes, and Tom Cruise is proof that he can still be a draw. Also his last original non Mission Impossible or Top Gun movie American Made was a box office success as 134 million with a 50 million dollar budget.

Also people forget about that the director's last american movie The Revenant came out a week after Force Awakens making 533 million at the box office with a budget more than Digger. That movie became a box office success so I don't know why people think differently about Digger? unless I'm missing something?

• The Odyssey released in Germany yesterday and after it´s Opening Day it´s tracking to open with Ca. 485K tickets during it´s Opening Weekend.

This would be the 2nd Biggest Opening Weekend of the year, the 26th Biggest Opening Weekend since the Pandemic and Christopher Nolan´s 5th Biggest Opening Weekend, just -3.8% below Oppenheimer.

It would be a lot lower than Troy (2004). However, going to movie theaters was just a lot more popular in Germany back then and films. especially Blockbusters, were a lot more frontloaded back then.

Top 10 Biggest 2026 Opening Weekends:

Top 10 Biggest Christopher Nolan Opening Weekends:

• Minions & Monsters continues to underperfrom compared to previous entries (DM 3rd WE: 348,169 tickets +15%/ Ca. 1,410,000 tickets, DM2 3rd WE: 258.256 tickets -42%/ 1,625,034 tickets, Minions 3rd WE: 760,181 tickets -27%/ 3,597,752 tickets, DM3 3rd WE: 462,009 tickets -32%/ 2,592,248 tickets, Minions 2 3rd WE: 361,720 tickets -37%/ 1,759,023 tickets, DM4 3rd WE: 401,885 tickets +11%/ 2,124,753 tickets).

Meanwhile, Moana 2026 is performing worse than Moana 2 (2nd WE: 712,365 tickets -26%/ 1,830,606 tickets) and Moana 2016 (2nd WE: 279,649 tickets +75%/ 797,957 tickets).

As acnother comparison, Snow White 2025 had a 2nd Weekend of 142,152 tickets -22%/ 359,313 tickets and Lilo & Stitch 2025 had a 2nd Weekend of 652,680 tickets -11%/ 1,577,860 tickets.

The current projection for the weekend:

1. The Odyssey - 485.000 tickets (New)
2. Minions & Monsters - 160.000 tickets -13.3%/ 1.125.000 tickets (3rd Weekend)
3. Moana - 130.000 tickets -50.7%/ 495.000 tickets (2nd Weekend)
4. Obsession - 105.000 tickets -16.1%/ 850.000 tickets (4th Weekend)

• Of course, this is only a projection based on the Thursday (& Wednesday) numbers of these films, so these numbers can still change in the coming days.

My next post about next weekend´s final numbers will be released next week, probably on wednesday, maybe tuesday or thursday.

Source: MaoYan Pro App

Note: Grosses city-wide was much depressed by FIFA. Case in point: the new Doraemon installment (63K) is down nearly by half.

Hope: Scores remain steady with an 81 on CGV and a 7.5 on Megabox. The movie is no doubt going to have a huge opening weekend, and it is on track to open above 2 million admits. Currently thinking around 315k admits on Friday, 660k on Saturday, and 550k on Sunday. Negative word of mouth could decrease that total.

Minions and Monsters: Scores stayed at 94 on CGV and increased to 8.4 on Megabox. The movie should cross 300k admits on Sunday, as I think the weekend will be around 130k on Saturday and 110k on Sunday.

Moana: A solid bounce-back day, as the movie will hit 600k admits tomorrow. Presales are at 45k, down just 45% from last Thursday, so a decent drop is expected.

The Eyes: Another meh drop, as the movie will cross 1.4 million admits on Saturday. It will likely fall just short of breakeven.

Toy Story 5: Toy Story 5 recovered decently and will break 2.7 million admits on Saturday. The movie should continue to recover as it bounces back against the competition.

Hive/Colony: Another big drop, as the movie is starting to end.

Presales

Spider-Man: Brand New Day: Presales are back and currently stand at 140k tickets, an increase of at least 40k tickets. Let’s wait and see the pace through the weekend. Comp table coming tomorrow or Saturday.

Odyssey: Presales increased by 5k and are now sitting at 51,575 tickets.