{"id":960989,"date":"2026-07-26T19:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960989\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:35:17","slug":"universal-responds-to-online-leak-of-the-odyssey-with-takedown-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960989\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Responds To Online Leak Of ‘The Odyssey’ With Takedown Protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChristopher Nolan<\/a> has taken pains to urge fans to see The Odyssey<\/a> in Imax if they want the best experience. After all, his film was shot entirely in that format to optimize the moviegoing experience.<\/p>\n

\n\tImagine the director\u2019s chagrin, then, when a high-quality version of the film was leaked on X this weekend, reportedly garnering millions of views. <\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal sprang into action.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWe became aware of the unauthorized posting of the film and immediately initiated takedown protocols. We take copyright infringement seriously and will pursue all appropriate remedies to protect our content and intellectual property rights,\u201d read a statement from the studio released to Deadline.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough it can sometimes be difficult to get leaks deleted on X, by Sunday morning it appeared that most if not all of the copies were gone. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn fact, some fans took it upon themselves to foil those wishing to watch online. They did so by Rickrolling them. Fans posted what appeared to be the film\u2019s opening, with the Universal globe and logo followed by a two-hour supercut of Rick Astley<\/a>\u2018s \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up.\u201d See one here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe leak hasn\u2019t seemed to hurt the film this weekend, as it posted posting Nolan\u2019s best ever second frame at the domestic box office. That $87M performance was driven in large part by large formats. Imax, PLFs and 70MM drove 57% of\u00a0The Odyssey\u2018s sophmore weekend. That\u2019s up from 53% last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan has taken pains to urge fans to see The Odyssey in Imax if they want the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":960990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[26299,171,386446,3279,27761,67,132,184,68],"class_list":["post-960989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-entertainment","tag-rick-astley","tag-the-odyssey","tag-twitter","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-universal-pictures","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116987962866280507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960989","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=960989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}