{"id":559183,"date":"2026-07-20T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559183\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:11:07","slug":"ireland-tops-global-box-office-for-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559183\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland tops global box office for The Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland has topped the global box office as the country with the biggest opening weekend per capita for The Odyssey.<\/p>\n

Christopher Nolan’s new epic, which stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya, has taken \u20ac954k at cinemas across the Republic of Ireland and \u20ac69,000 in Northern Ireland since opening last Friday.<\/p>\n

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Watch our interview with Tom Holland and Matt Damon<\/p>\n

The film has also set a new record for Nolan with his biggest box office debut having taken 264 million US dollars worldwide, according to Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n

The blockbuster is an adaptation of Homer\u2019s ancient Greek epic poem, which follows Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca, as he makes his perilous 10-year journey home after the Trojan War.<\/p>\n

The Odyssey review: Nolan’s most human epic yet<\/a><\/p>\n

The adaptation scored an even better debut than Nolan\u2019s 2023 blockbuster Oppenheimer and marked the filmmaker\u2019s best opening since 2012\u2019s The Dark Knight Rises.<\/p>\n

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\nMatt Damon in The Odyssey<\/p>\n

The Odyssey was rolled out internationally across 73 markets over the weekend and launched across more than 12,800 locations and 26,000 screens, including 440 Imax screens.<\/p>\n

It is the first feature movie to be filmed entirely with Imax cameras – a system of cameras that capture a sharper, brighter and higher-resolution content.<\/p>\n

The Odyssey has been hailed as Nolan\u2019s “best film to date” in a string of glowing reviews and also stars Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Samantha Morton and Charlize Theron.<\/p>\n

The director is also known for The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar and Dunkirk.<\/p>\n

He is also known for directing Memento, Inception and Tenet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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