The forecast became a record
A week ago, The Odyssey was estimated at US$1.63 billion worldwide and still trailed Jurassic World's Universal record by about US$40 million. The September 13 weekend estimate lifts Christopher Nolan's film to US$1.68 billion globally, with about US$600.5 million from the United States and Canada. On that nominal, unadjusted measure, it has now passed Jurassic World and become Universal's highest-grossing global release. That is a real change in the ranking, not another prediction that the crossover is imminent.
What the headline number does not prove
The comparison uses dollars as reported in each film's release era and does not adjust older grosses for ticket-price inflation. The totals are also Sunday estimates assembled before final weekend actuals, so small revisions remain possible. Most importantly, gross revenue is not profit: the public numbers do not disclose all production, marketing, distribution or participation costs. The record therefore describes theatrical scale and audience spending, not Universal's final return on the film.
IMAX was part of the outcome, not decoration
AP reports that US$506 million of The Odyssey's worldwide gross came from IMAX screens, roughly three tenths of the global estimate. Nolan's production and campaign treated large-format presentation as a core version of the experience, and the result shows that premium access materially shaped the total. For fans and exhibitors, the next useful checks are Monday's final figures, the film's remaining international run and whether its IMAX share holds as screens shift to newer releases. Those measures will clarify the durability of the record without changing what has already happened: The Odyssey has moved from approaching Universal's benchmark to sitting above it.