Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey crossed 10 million admissions in South Korea on Sept. 6, according to local box office data, after topping the South Korean box office again over Sept. 4-6. During that stretch, The Odyssey brought in $5.9 million from 698,384 admissions, claimed 60.92% of the market, and played on 1,858 screens, according to the same local box office figures.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day was a distant No. 2, taking in about $941,000 in its sixth weekend. The bigger story, though, is that The Odyssey got past 10 million admissions by Sept. 6, which pushed its local total to roughly $83 million, according to local box office data.
That puts Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in a pretty small club. According to local box office records, it’s only the tenth non-Korean film ever to reach that mark in South Korea, and the first one to do it in four years. It also adds to South Korea’s reputation as one of Christopher Nolan’s strongest markets, after Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar pulled off the same feat.
IMAX gave the run a boost too. More than 1.1 million IMAX tickets have been sold, setting a new local IMAX record, according to local ticketing totals.
If you follow theatrical trends, there’s another piece to this. Spider-Man: Brand New Day had already passed 8 million admissions by late August and has now become Tom Holland’s biggest Spider-Man film in the market, while South Korea’s 2026 first-half box office climbed 41.9% year on year to 94.2% of pre-pandemic levels, according to local box office data.
Audiences will still pay for the big screen when a movie feels like an event.
You can catch The Odyssey now in South Korean theaters and IMAX.
Author: Emmanuel Pina
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