{"id":15149,"date":"2026-07-23T23:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15149"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:54:36","slug":"the-odyssey-18m-wednesday-2nd-best-for-christopher-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15149","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; $18M Wednesday 2nd Best for Christopher Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUniversal\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-odyssey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-odyssey\" data-tag=\"the-odyssey\">The Odyssey<\/a> <\/em>continued to flex its muscles at the domestic box office with a massive $18.05M  Wednesday which was -16% from its $21.4M Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYesterday repped the second best Wednesday ever for director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/christopher-nolan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christopher-nolan\" data-tag=\"christopher-nolan\">Christopher Nolan<\/a> at the domestic box office after <em>Dark Knight<\/em>\u2018s Wednesday back on July 23, 2008 which grossed $18.3M, and ahead of 2012\u2019s <em>Dark Knight Rises <\/em>which made $13.77M. The six day-running total now for the feature take of Homer\u2019s poem is $181.6M. As we told you, the pic\u2019s second weekend could file between $61M-$74M and might outstrip the second weekend of one or both of Nolan\u2019s <em>Dark Knight <\/em>and <em>Dark Knight Rises <\/em>which respectively posted $75.1M and $62.1M. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>The Odyssey <\/em>has been outpacing Nolan\u2019s previous movie, 2023\u2019s <em>Oppenheimer<\/em>, that Universal title\u2019s Wednesday being $10.6M with a six-day running cume of $117.8M. <em>Odyssey <\/em>remains +54% ahead of <em>Oppenheimer<\/em>, that multi-Oscar winning biopic ending its run in North America at $330M. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis weekend <em>The Odyssey <\/em>faces no major studio wide foes as they opted to stay out of the pic\u2019s way. Bleecker Street has the big screen take of the filmed Broadway show <em>Hadestown <\/em>which could do $8M-$10M, while it\u2019s low single digit starts for Neon\u2019s Nicolas Winding Refn genre pic <em>Her Private Hell <\/em>at 700 sites and IFC\u2019s dialogue-less noir <em>Motor City <\/em>which is booked at 1,600 locations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>The Odyssey, <\/em>of course, hangs onto all its PLF and Imax screens this weekend which repped 52% of its $123.5M opening or $64.2M. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNolan\u2019s highest grossing movie at the domestic box office is <em>Dark Knight <\/em>with $534.9M. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal\u2019s The Odyssey continued to flex its muscles at the domestic box office with a massive $18.05M Wednesday which was -16% from its $21.4M Tuesday. 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