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Weekend estimates place The Odyssey's domestic cumulative gross at roughly $539.1 million, above the $534.9 million domestic benchmark previously set by Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. The figures come from a single report and have not been certified by Comscore, whose official Monday final for the August 21–23 weekend had not been published as of early August 24. Until that final is released, the domestic total, the $19.5 million weekend gross, and the $1.4 billion worldwide cumulative remain estimates.

A federal judge ruled on August 13, 2026, that Meta's advertising revenue, algorithmic placement, and approval of third-party ads using Mike Huckabee's likeness without consent are sufficient to satisfy the commercial-benefit requirement under Arkansas's Frank Broyles Publicity Rights Protection Act. The ruling resolves the specific question remanded by the Third Circuit in June 2026, allowing only the Broyles Act claim to proceed; Huckabee's common-law invasion-of-privacy and unjust-enrichment claims were dismissed earlier and are not part of the ongoing litigation. Section 230 immunity, which Meta raised previously, was neither reopened nor decided in the August 13 order.

The Justice Department reached a $400 million settlement with TikTok and ByteDance on August 21, resolving federal children's privacy allegations without a liability determination; $300 million is payable immediately, with $100 million contingent on a court vacating the 2019 Musical.ly consent decree at a September 21 hearing. The federal case was dismissed with prejudice, but the old decree's reporting and monitoring obligations remain in effect until a judge rules on the vacatur motion. Separate state-level suits from Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, and Minnesota remain active, with Minnesota's case already surviving a motion to dismiss.