{"id":2507338,"date":"2026-07-18T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2507338"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:22:52","slug":"the-odyssey-sails-towards-a-record-breaking-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-odyssey-sails-towards-a-record-breaking-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Odyssey’ sails towards a record-breaking opening weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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True to its source material, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey<\/em><\/a> <\/em>is headed for an epic opening weekend at the box office.<\/p>\n

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According to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, The Odyssey <\/em>raked in $17.6 million from domestic Thursday night previews and is on track for a $117 million opening weekend. That would make it the best domestic opening for a live-action film this year, surpassing Michael<\/em>, which took in $97 million and went on to cross the $1 billion mark worldwide in July. The two best domestic openings of the year belong to animated films: Toy Story 5 <\/em>($160 million) and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie <\/em>($131.7 million).<\/p>\n

A $117 million opening would also be the best opening for an R-rated film in 2026, overtaking Backrooms <\/em>($81.4 million). It would also be the best opening for an R-rated movie from Universal Pictures, a record formerly held by Fifty Shades of Grey <\/em>($85.1 million).<\/p>\n

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The Odyssey<\/em>‘s opening weekend box office is also set to surpass that of Nolan’s prior film, Oppenheimer <\/em>($82.4 million), making it his biggest since The Dark Knight Rises, <\/em>which still holds a commanding lead with $160 million.<\/p>\n

Based on The Odyssey<\/em>‘s reported production cost of $250 million and reported marketing cost of $125 million, Forbes estimates<\/a> that after theaters take their cuts, it will take between $625 to $750 million for The Odyssey <\/em>to break even. However, given Nolan’s track record, The Odyssey <\/em>is sure to have massive legs, especially in premium, if exclusive, formats like IMAX 70mm<\/a>. Screenings for that format in particular are sold out for weeks into the future, and have been since tickets for The Odyssey <\/em>went on sale last year. <\/p>\n

Clearly, the demand for The Odyssey <\/em>is there. Could it be Nolan’s third film to break $1 billion, following in the footsteps of The Dark Knight <\/em>and The Dark Knight Rises<\/em>?<\/p>\n

The Odyssey <\/em>is now in theaters.<\/a><\/p>\n

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True to its source material, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is headed for an epic opening weekend at the box office. SEE ALSO: ‘The Odyssey’ review: Christopher Nolan turns an epic myth into a movie masterpiece According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Odyssey raked in $17.6 million from domestic Thursday night previews and is on track […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2507339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Odyssey-sails-towards-a-record-breaking-opening-weekend.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507340,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507338\/revisions\/2507340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}