{"id":950761,"date":"2026-07-22T00:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/950761\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:40:16","slug":"box-office-odyssey-20m-tuesday-2nd-weekend-could-best-dark-knight-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/950761\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Odyssey’ $20M Tuesday; 2nd Weekend Could Best ‘Dark Knight’ Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Odyssey<\/a> is on its way to a $20M<\/strong> Tuesday, we understand, and if it gets past $20.86M today, it will become Christopher Nolan\u2019s best Tuesday ever at the domestic B.O., ahead of 2008\u2019s The Dark Knight. <\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently, among all Tuesdays this year, the pic starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal and Mia Goth is second behind Disney\/Pixar\u2019s Toy Story 5 ($23.69M, June 23). The Odyssey is currently second among all Tuesdays for a Universal movie behind Jurassic World ($24.3M, June 16, 2015).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Odyssey will hold all Imax and PLF screens in its second weekend, charting a course for a 40%-50% ease in the $61.8M-$74M range.<\/strong> There\u2019s a chance that the movie bests the second frame of Nolan\u2019s Dark Knight movies, meaning either The Dark Knight ($75.1M, -61%, the director\u2019s highest grossing sophomore frame) or The Dark Knight Rises ($62.1M, -61% his second highest). Superhero movies are typically front-loaded, which is the reason why no one is expecting Odyssey to comp to the Dark Knight holds. Again, this is a by appointment-viewing movie with moviegoers eyeing the best seats, formats and showtimes. Oppenheimer in a Barbie dominated market saw its second weekend dip -43% with $46.7M.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Motor City<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBlack Bear<\/p>\n

\n\tNo major studio dared to put a wide release this coming weekend, wedged between Odyssey and Sony\/Marvel Studios\u2019 Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The latter is expected to outstrip the former\u2019s record $123.5M opening for a live-action movie this year, and potentially even Toy Story 5\u2018s highest 3-day to date in 2026 of $159.6M. Instead, specialty distributors like IFC have their TIFF acquisition, the dialogue-less noir Motor City <\/strong>from Potsy Ponciroli, and starring Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster and Ben McKenzie. Ritchson plays a tough guy who falls for a local gangster\u2019s girl. He gets framed by Foster\u2019s kingpin and then enacts a revenge campaign. Booked at 1,600 theaters, the outlook is in the low single digits<\/strong>. Twenty-nine reviews on Rotten Tomatoes stand at 72% fresh.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 45 Of The Most Anticipated Movies Of 2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tBleecker Street has the Broadway live capture feature production of Tony-winning Hadestown: The Musical <\/strong>at 1,944 theaters, and it could overperform. Currently, the pic counts around $5M in advance tickets sales and could file anywhere between $7M-$10M<\/strong>. Bleecker is releasing through their event cinema division Crosswalk and LD Entertainment. Hadestown: The Musical\u00a0was shot in London on the West End last year and includes the five original principals of the Broadway company: Reeve Carney as Orpheus, Andr\u00e9 De Shields\u2019 Tony Award-winning turn as Hermes, Amber Gray as Persephone, Eva Noblezada as Eurydice, and Patrick Page as Hades. Pre-sales have already eclipsed\u00a0Waitress: The Musical, which\u00a0Bleecker\u00a0released in 2023.<\/p>\n

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\n\tNeon has Nicolas Winding Refn<\/a>\u2018s Cannes out of competition noir genre pic, Her Private Hell<\/a> <\/strong>starring Sophie Thatcher, Emmy nominee Charles Melton, Havana Rose Liu and Kristine Froseth. The pic is booked in around 700 sites and is also eyeing a low single digit start<\/strong>. Refn has been road-showing the movie across the nation with stops in L.A., Chicago, and New York. It\u2019s Refn\u2019s first movie in ten years, his last being 2016\u2019s Neon Demon which was made by Amazon but released by the then Broad Green Pictures before the streamer had a distribution arm. Her Private Hell, tells the story of an actress, and a former soldier whose lives are complicated by a killer in the city. The pic, which was largely funded by foreign sales, cost less than Neon Demon\u2018s $7.5M. Mubi bought out most of the world and has the prime Euro territories such as the UK and Italy which are going in September. This weekend, Her Private Hell will bow in Russia, Singapore, Greece, Portugal and Turkey. Refn likes to divide: critics coming out of Cannes gave Her Private Hell 49% on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Odyssey is on its way to a $20M Tuesday, we understand, and if it gets past $20.86M…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":950762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,327902,78084,53,327903,3279,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-950761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-her-private-hell","tag-motor-city","tag-movies","tag-nicolas-winding-refn","tag-the-odyssey","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116960849502354336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}