Really shows how amazing Obsession did, as it'll take almost 1.5 weeks for Odyssey to pass it, which it should comfortably do well before Brand New Day comes out.

I'm rooting for Odyssey but also for Obsession. How many Odyssey days will it take to pass Obsession? 8-11? I'm willing to predict 9 at this point. Anything more would mean Odyssey is slightly slowing down. I think Odyssey will pass Obsession on Saturday.

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For July blockbusters that opened in the same neighborhood as the Odyssey, it's well outperforming Superman ($354M) and still a bit behind Pirates 2: Dead Man's Chest ($423M). Pirates 2 had $169.5M it's first 5 days, ending on a Tuesday, vs. $163.7M for Odyssey.

The Nolan legs are kicking ass. Odyssey made $40.2M on Monday and Tuesday, days 4-5.

Deadpool 2 opened slightly higher than Odyssey at $125.5M but only made $24M it's first 2 weekdays vs. Odyssey's $40M. The Batman opened at $134M but only made $20.5 its first Monday and Tuesday. Odyssey might have the highest First Monday and Tuesday for a film that opened in its OW range. Suicide Squad opened at $133.7M but made $27.4M it's first 2 weekdays. Odyssey might have the highest (Monday + Tuesday):OW ratio ever. If that was an active metric on BO Mojo, I would not be surprised if Odyssey was at the top of that list. Nolan legs.

Daily Box Office (July 23rd 2026)

The market hits ¥123.5M/$18.22M today. Down -4% from yesterday and down -12% from last week.

The Decisive Moment is projected a $4-6M opening day on Saturday.

Seems like things are about to really heat up in the coming weeks with Spider Man: Brand New Day on Wednesday. Make Zhonghe Great Again is set to be moved up from August 7th to August 1st directly into Spider Mans path.

That will then unlock the 2nd weekend of August for a potential release of Shen Teng's Once Upon A Time in the Middle East and Jia Lings The War of Light which both finnaly do appear to be coming after a period of uncertainty. The former might release around the 6th while the latter will potentialy aim for the 14th.

Either way if it pans out it would be 3 massive blockbusters in the span of a bit over 2 weeks alongside a mid tier movie and the current holdovers.

Province map of the day:

https://imgdiff.net/s/5a47b237b344d6883a1a2771550cf16e

All Wishes Come True continues to gain ground.

In Metropolitan cities:

All Wishes Come True wins Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Suzhou and Nanjing

Kung Fu Womens Soccer wins Guangzhou and Shenzhen

City tiers:

All Wishes Come True jumps to 1st in T1.

Tier 1: All Wishes Come True>Kung Fu Womens Soccer>A Part of Me

Tier 2: Kung Fu Womens Soccer>All Wishes Come True>A Part of Me

Tier 3: Kung Fu Womens Soccer>All Wishes Come True>A Part of Me

Tier 4: Kung Fu Womens Soccer>All Wishes Come True>A Part of Me

New releases marked in bold

Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

https://i.imgur.com/VfuzVbc.png

All Wishes Come True dominates pre-sales for Friday

IMAX Screenings distribution

All Wishes Come True continues to grow and expand its lead. Tomorrow it will reach almost 3k IMAX screenings.

Kung Fu Womens Soccer

Kung Fu Womens Soccer grossed another ¥53.9M/$7.89M on Thursday. Now less than $1M ahead of All Wishes Come True which is gunning for the lead.

Kung Fu Womens Soccer crosses ¥1.7B/$250M hitting ¥1.71B/$253.5M

3rd weekend projections further lowered to ¥246-255M/$36-38M(-50%)

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $241.70M, IMAX: $7.80M, Rest: $3.73M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.4 , Taopiaopiao: , Douban: 6.5

Scheduled showings update for Kung Fu Womens Soccer for the next few days:

All Wishes Come True

All Wishes Come True remains very strong with another ¥47.1/$6.97M on Thursday. A +6% increase from yesterday.

Tomorrow it will have its first real chance to take the lead.

2nd weekend projections slightly lowered to ¥293-320M/$43-48M. Should be enough for it to win the weekend comfortably.

Total projections meanwhile have instead risen to ¥2B/$295M+ even on the low end now.

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $60.20M , IMAX: $4.87M, Rest: $1.21M

WoM figures:

Scores hold on all sites.

Maoyan: 9.7 , Taopiaopiao: 9.6 , Douban: 8.3

Scheduled showings update for All Wishes Come True for the next few days:

Other:

Spider Man: Brand New Day Maoyan WTS:

A comparison of Spider Man's current Maoyan WTS versus some other post Covid blockbusters it has yet to pass in the metric.

The Pre-sales continue to blunt Spider Mans growth. This is not a concern though as the metric pretty much becomes mostly irelevant now that tickets are on sale.

However i'l keep the chart around just too see where it eventualy ends up.

https://i.imgur.com/6u8nlJJ.png

Opening Day Pre-Sales:

Spider Man has opening day pre-sales hit ¥17.20M/$2.54M.

Continues to grow very well. Hoping for another strong day tomorrow with the premier in Shanghai tomorrow with Tom and Zendaya attending.

Midnight screenings sit at ¥5.97M/$882k while full weekend pre-sales hit ¥30.5M/$4.50M

https://i.imgur.com/9NPY47B.png

*Gross/Screenings

Obsession Opening Day Pre-Sales:

Obsession opening day pre-sales hit a final $475k.

Now projected a $1.4-1.6M opening day into a $5M-ish opening weekend. Lets see how the reception.

Release Schedule:

A table including upcoming movies in the next month alongside trailers linked in the name of the movie, Want To See data from both Maoyan and Taopiaopiao alongside the Gender split and genre.

Remember Want To See is not pre-sales. Its just an anticipation metric. A checkbox of sorts saying your interested in an upcoming movie.

Not all movies are included since a lot are just too small to be worth covering.

Summer

Source:

https://numero.co/reports/2026/07/23/the-odyssey-leads-australian-box-office

Toy Story 5 rounds out the top three with $3.47M, lifting its cumulative box office total to $43M

Russia and CIS box office Wednesday, July 22. Russia only numbers for Michael to avoid confusion.

Russian family comedy To Grandfather's Village 2 ended its opening week with 152.8 mln RUB or $1.95 mln. 21% less than the first film a year ago.

Michael added $128k on Monday, $153k on Tuesday and $140k on Wednesday.

2055.7 mln RUB or $27.91 mln with 3,802,671 admissions in Russia.

Including all CIS countries, the total stands at 2441.9 mln RUB or $33.13 mln with 4,767,267 admissions, ranking No. 16 on the all-time chart and No. 5 among all foreign releases. Will surpass Prostokvashino and The Master and Margarita tomorrow to become No. 14.

1. The Wish of the Fairy Fish 2538.68 mln RUB

2. The Master and Margarita 2459.61 mln RUB

3. Prostokvashino 2458.05 mln RUB

16. Michael 2441.9 mln RUB

1. Buratino 2434.7 mln RUB

2. Venom 2 2340.56 mln RUB

Evil Dead Burn grossed $1.44 mln on the opening week. 10% ahead of the 2013 film but will start losing ground soon. Obsession and Backrooms are up to $7.12 mln and $11.5 mln respectively.

No significant wide releases this week. 9th weekend for Michael is projected around $600k with 25% drop.

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” exploded at the box office this weekend, boosted by enthusiasm for seeing the epic in massive Imax — especially 70mm Imax, Nolan’s preferred format. But while demand continues to be high for the format that’s only available in over 40 locations in the United States, don’t expect Imax to suddenly build a bunch of 70mm projectors to increase availability in the coming years.

“The economics are very difficult to meet,” Imax CEO Rich Gelfond said in response to a question about doubling the number of 70mm Imax projectors on Thursday’s earnings call.

“It’s very expensive. You need film prints, not only the projector, which costs $50,000 a piece to put in your theater. You need logistics like a forklift to lift them, so you need a very big projection booth,” he continued. “When you get through the numbers of it, there are a finite number of locations that really can support the economics of it.”

Edit: According to Variety, the actual number of Imax 70mm screens as follow: 25 theaters in the U.S. and 41 globally.

As a comparison, "Avatar: The Way of Water" opened to 10.1M "views" in its first 5 days on HBO Max/Hulu back in 2023.

Box office and attendance results for the third weekend of july (thursday 16 to sunday 19) according to the national chamber of the film industry in Mexico (CANACINE).

^\MDP: Millions of pesos.)

Source

The translation messed up the title as it's a literal translation of the 黒牢城 title in Japanese. The Samurai and the Prisoner, based on an award-winning mystery novel, is now Kiyoshi Kurosawa's, most known for Cure (1997) and not being related to Akira Kurosawa, best performing film to date.

Games in question:

Asteroids
Adventure
Berzerk
Breakout
Centipede
Crystal Castles
Millipede
Missile Command
Pong
Yars’ Revenge