{"id":965754,"date":"2026-07-29T01:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/965754\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:33:12","slug":"box-office-the-odyssey-to-beat-oppenheimer-lifetime-in-13-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/965754\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; To Beat &#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; Lifetime In 13 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt took Christopher Nolan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/03\/oppenheimer-christopher-nolan-interview-oscars-backstage-cillian-murphy-news-1235853735\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multi-Oscar-winning<\/a> 2023 pic <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/oppenheimer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oppenheimer\" data-tag=\"oppenheimer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oppenheimer<\/a> 595 days to final at just over $330M stateside, and it\u2019s taking the director\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-odyssey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-odyssey\" data-tag=\"the-odyssey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a> <\/strong>just 13 days to outstrip that result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe filmmaker\u2019s feature take on Homer\u2019s epic poem hasn\u2019t eased one bit, with its second Monday charting $14.7M and Tuesday looking like $16M+ for what\u2019s bound to be a running total of $320.1M stateside. By EOD Wednesday, The Odyssey is expected to cross $330M+ on its 13th day of release, not only besting Oppenheimer but becoming Nolan\u2019s third-highest-grossing movie at the domestic B.O. after The Dark Knight ($534.9M) and The Dark Knight Rises ($448.1M). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs we told you, with the arrival of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which has a shot at reaching a North American opening around $200M, Odyssey\u2018s third weekend looks to ease by 50% at most, or <strong>$45M<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Odyssey already is Matt Damon\u2019s highest-grossing movie (in a leading role) at the domestic box office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>RELATED: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/lists\/most-anticipated-movies-2026\/\" data-type=\"pmc_list\" data-id=\"1236649583\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>45 Of The Most Anticipated Movies Of 2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBleecker Street\u2019s Crosswalk and LD Entertainment\u2019s Broadway-capture film <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hadestown\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hadestown\" data-tag=\"hadestown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hadestown<\/a><\/strong> was No. 2 Monday with $2.2M. Today is looking like <strong>$1.4M<\/strong>, with a running total just under<strong> $14M<\/strong>. The pic originally was scheduled to have a five-day run but is being extended into a second weekend with 1,560 locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/lists\/summer-tv-preview-2026-shows-to-watch-streaming\/\" data-type=\"pmc_list\" data-id=\"1236921368\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">25 New And Returning TV Shows To Look Forward To This Summer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took Christopher Nolan\u2019s multi-Oscar-winning 2023 pic Oppenheimer 595 days to final at just over $330M stateside, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":965755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,92803,49071,3279,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-965754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-hadestown","tag-oppenheimer","tag-the-odyssey","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117000693729204373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965754","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=965754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}