{"id":559869,"date":"2026-07-21T00:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559869\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:35:20","slug":"ireland-leads-worldwide-opening-weekend-box-office-for-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559869\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland leads worldwide opening weekend box office for The Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ireland has topped the global box office, recording the biggest opening weekend per capita for Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/07\/19\/hotpress\/film-of-the-week-the-odyssey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a>, starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Tom Holland, and more, is Christopher Nolan\u2019s adaptation of Homer\u2019s ancient Greek epic poem, which follows Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca, as he makes his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It debuted with a score of 95% on film review website Rotten Tomatoes, making it the English director\u2019s highest-rated film ever.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Odyssey-2_fef715.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1792783\"  \/>Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Tom Holland as Telemachus in The Odyssey. Pic: Melinda Sue Gordon\/Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Odyssey\u00a0was one of the most anticipated films of the year, and set a new record for Nolan with his biggest box office debut, having taken 264 million US dollars worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u00a0was 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. Only around 40 cinemas worldwide are equipped to screen the film in IMAX 70mm, the format that best showcases how it was shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of those 70mm IMAX screens are in Ireland, but that did not stop Irish audiences from turning out to watch the film in other formats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Odyssey-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1792778\"  \/>Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey. Pic: Melinda Sue Gordon\/Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Odyssey took in \u20ac954k at cinemas across the Republic of Ireland and \u20ac69k in Northern Ireland since opening last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u00a0has been hailed as Nolan\u2019s \u2018best film to date\u2019 in glowing reviews across Ireland and worldwide, and also stars Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Samantha Morton and Charlize Theron. Christopher Nolan is also known for\u00a0The Dark Knight\u00a0trilogy,\u00a0Oppenheimer, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Memento,\u00a0Inception, Insomnia,\u00a0and Tenet.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Odyssey is the first movie ever shot entirely on IMAX film, so IMAX 70mm shows you the whole thing: the full 1.43:1 frame, floor to ceiling, every inch Nolan captured. It&#8217;s the largest, highest resolution format in the world, and only 41 theaters on the planet can actually\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GkQDRmQhfZ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GkQDRmQhfZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Filmatic (@itsFilmatic) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/itsFilmatic\/status\/2077856110501863676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 16, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland has topped the global box office, recording the biggest opening weekend per capita for Christopher Nolan\u2019s The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-559869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}