{"id":704406,"date":"2026-07-22T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704406\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:47:09","slug":"box-office-odyssey-20m-tuesday-2nd-weekend-could-best-dark-knight-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704406\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Odyssey’ $20M Tuesday; 2nd Weekend Could Best ‘Dark Knight’ Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Odyssey<\/a> is on its way to a $20M Tuesday, we understand, and if it gets past $20.86M today, it will become Christopher Nolan\u2019s best Tuesday ever at the domestic B.O., ahead of 2008\u2019s The Dark Knight. <\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently, among all Tuesdays this year, the pic starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal and Mia Goth is second behind Disney\/Pixar\u2019s Toy Story 5 ($23.69M, June 23). The Odyssey is currently second among all Tuesdays for a Universal movie behind Jurassic World ($24.3M, June 16, 2015).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Odyssey will hold all Imax and PLF screens in its second weekend, charting a course for a 40%-50% ease in the $61.8M-$74M range. There\u2019s a chance that the movie bests the second frame of Nolan\u2019s Dark Knight movies, meaning either 2008\u2019s The Dark Knight ($75.1M, -61%, the director\u2019s highest-grossing sophomore frame) or 2012\u2019s The Dark Knight Rises ($62.1M, -61% his second-highest). Superhero movies typically are front-loaded, which is reason why no one is expecting Odyssey to comp to the Dark Knight holds. Again, this is an by-appointment film with moviegoers eyeing the best seats, formats and showtimes. Oppenheimer, in a Barbie-dominated 2023 market, saw its second weekend dip by 43% with $46.7M.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 45 Of The Most Anticipated Movies Of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Motor<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Motor City<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBlack Bear<\/p>\n

\n\tNo major studio dared to put a wide release this coming weekend, wedged between Odyssey and Sony\/Marvel Studios\u2019 Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The latter is expected to outstrip the former\u2019s 2026-record $123.5M opening for a live-action movie, and potentially even Toy Story 5\u2018s highest 3-day of 2026 at $159.6M. Instead, specialty distributor IFC has its TIFF acquisition, the dialogue-less noir Motor City from Potsy Ponciroli that stars Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster and Ben McKenzie. Ritchson plays a tough guy who falls for a local gangster\u2019s girl. He gets framed by Foster\u2019s kingpin and then enacts a revenge campaign. Booked at 1,600 theaters, the outlook is in the low single digits. Twenty-nine reviews on Rotten Tomatoes stand at 72% fresh.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Motor City\u2019 Review: Potsy Ponciroli\u2019s Dialogue-Lite Thriller Is A Dazzling Demonstration Of Genre-Movie Pyrotechnics \u2013 Venice Film Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tBleecker Street has the Broadway live-capture feature production of Tony-winning Hadestown: The Musical at 1,944 theaters, and it could overperform. Currently, the pic counts around $5M in advance tickets sales and could file anywhere between $7M-$10M. Bleecker is releasing through its event cinema division Crosswalk and LD Entertainment. Hadestown: The Musical\u00a0was shot in London\u2019s West End last year and includes the five principals of the original Broadway company: Reeve Carney as Orpheus, Andr\u00e9 De Shields\u2019 Tony-winning turn as Hermes, Amber Gray as Persephone, Eva Noblezada as Eurydice and Patrick Page as Hades. Pre-sales already have eclipsed\u00a0Waitress: The Musical, which\u00a0Bleecker\u00a0released in 2023.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSophie Thatcher, center, in \u2018Her Private Hell<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMubi\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Her Private Hell\u2019 Review: Pino Donaggio\u2019s Score Is The Secret Sauce In Nicolas Winding Refn<\/a>\u2019s Trippy Return To Cinema \u2013 Cannes Film Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tNeon has Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s Cannes noir genre pic, Her Private Hell starring Sophie Thatcher, Emmy nominee Charles Melton, Havana Rose Liu and Kristine Froseth. The pic, which premiered Out of Competition at Cannes in May, is booked in around 700 sites and is also eyeing a low-single-digit start. Refn has been roadshowing the movie across the nation with stops in L.A., Chicago and New York. It\u2019s Refn\u2019s first movie in 10 years, his last being 2016\u2019s Neon Demon which was made by Amazon but released by the then-Broad Green Pictures before the streamer had a distribution arm. Her Private Hell tells the story of an actress and a former soldier whose lives are complicated by a killer in the city. The pic, which was largely funded by foreign sales, cost less than Neon Demon\u2018s $7.5M. Mubi bought out most of the world and has the prime Euro territories such as the UK and Italy, which are going in September. This weekend, Her Private Hell will bow in Russia, Singapore, Greece, Portugal and Turkey. Refn likes to divide: Critics coming out of Cannes gave Her Private Hell 49% on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Odyssey is on its way to a $20M Tuesday, we understand, and if it gets past $20.86M…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,193282,233677,2839,202346,22546,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-704406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-her-private-hell","tag-motor-city","tag-movies","tag-nicolas-winding-refn","tag-the-odyssey","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}