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Universal’s The Odyssey continued to flex its muscles astatine nan home container agency pinch a monolithic $18.05M Wednesday which was -16% from its $21.4M Tuesday.
Yesterday repped nan 2nd champion Wednesday ever for head Christopher Nolan astatine nan home container agency aft Dark Knight‘s Wednesday backmost connected July 23, 2008 which grossed $18.3M, and up of 2012’s Dark Knight Rises which made $13.77M. The six day-running full now for nan characteristic return of Homer’s poem is $181.6M. As we told you, nan pic’s 2nd play could record betwixt $61M-$74M and mightiness outstrip nan 2nd play of 1 aliases some of Nolan’s Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises which respectively posted $75.1M and $62.1M.
The Odyssey has been outpacing Nolan’s erstwhile movie, 2023’s Oppenheimer, that Universal title’s Wednesday being $10.6M pinch a six-day moving cume of $117.8M. Odyssey remains +54% up of Oppenheimer, that multi-Oscar winning biopic ending its tally successful North America astatine $330M.
This play The Odyssey faces nary awesome workplace wide foes arsenic they opted to enactment retired of nan pic’s way. Bleecker Street has nan large surface return of nan filmed Broadway show Hadestown which could do $8M-$10M, while it’s debased azygous digit starts for Neon’s Nicolas Winding Refn genre pic Her Private Hell at 700 sites and IFC’s dialogue-less noir Motor City which is booked astatine 1,600 locations.
The Odyssey, of course, hangs onto each its PLF and Imax screens this play which repped 52% of its $123.5M opening aliases $64.2M.
Nolan’s highest grossing movie astatine nan home container agency is Dark Knight with $534.9M.
