The Odyssey Nears $200M Domestic In First Week
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- The Odyssey ends its first North American week at $199.3M across 3,919 theaters, ranking third among Nolan films' first weeks behind The Dark Knight ($238.6M) and The Dark Knight Rises ($225M), with a 3% Thursday-to-Wednesday dip that the source frames as sustained momentum.
- The Odyssey's second weekend is projected at $61M-$74M, though a reader comment argues the weekday trajectory could challenge Nolan's best second frame — The Dark Knight's $75.1M — calling the forecast too conservative given Oppenheimer-style Friday and Saturday jumps.
- Hadestown, Bleecker Street's Broadway live capture distributed via Crosswalk with LD Entertainment, earned $1.5M in Thursday previews and is tracking toward an $8M-$10M opening that would rank second only to Disney's Hamilton ($10.1M) for the format; it holds a 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic score and 99% audience score.
- Motor City, IFC's dialogue-less R-rated crime noir from director Potsy Ponciroli starring Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, and Ben Foster, grossed $475K in overall previews — landing between Late Night With the Devil ($317K) and Clown in a Cornfield ($600K) — with a 65% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score.
- Her Private Hell, Neon and Nicolas Winding Refn's genre kung-fu noir starring Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, took $125K in previews with a 45% Rotten Tomatoes score; Mubi holds majority overseas rights on the mid-single-digit-million-dollar film.
Why it matters: The Odyssey's $199.3M first week places it third among Nolan openings — ahead of Oppenheimer ($127.8M) and Inception ($100.1M) — and its 3% Thursday-to-Wednesday dip signals the kind of weekday durability that has commentators already questioning the $61M-$74M second-weekend projection. Hadestown's 100% critic / 99% audience score gives specialty counters an unusually strong launch against a blockbuster, a rare configuration that could meaningfully siphon adult audiences rather than merely coexist.
