Pixar's Long-Awaited $1B Franchise Is Officially Here

The month of July might go down in history for having delivered two movies that passed the coveted $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a tough sell to all four quadrants of the audience, but the filmmaker is coming off the astounding success of Oppenheimer, which was arguably even less of a sure thing. The three-hour R-rated biographical thriller exceeded all expectations to gross $975 million worldwide, in addition to winning the Best Picture honor at the Oscars and earning Nolan his first Best Director Academy Award. Later this month, Sony will release Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which should be in tremendous shape even if it grosses half of its predecessor's nearly $2 billion worldwide haul. However, another movie is poised to beat The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day to the $1 billion milestone.