The Odyssey is on its way to a $20M Tuesday we understand, and if it gets past $20.86M today, it will become Christopher Nolan’s Best Tuesday ever at the domestic B.O., ahead of 2008’s Dark Knight.
Currently, among all Tuesdays this year, the Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth ensemble is second behind Disney/Pixar’s 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).
The Odyssey will hold all Imax and PLF screens in its second weekend, charting a course for a -40% to -50% ease in the $61.8M-$74M range. There’s a chance that the movie bests the second frame of Nolan’s Dark Knight movies, meaning either Dark Knight ($75.1M, -61%, the director’s highest grossing sophomore frame) or Dark Knight Rises ($62.1M, -61% his second highest). Superhero movies are typically front-loaded, which is the reason why no one is expecting Odyssey to comp to the Dark Knight holds. Again, this is a by appointment-viewing movie with moviegoers eyeing the best seats, formats and showtimes. Oppenheimer in a Barbie dominated market saw its second weekend dip -43% with $46.7M.
‘Motor City‘
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No major studio dared to put a wide release this coming weekend, wedged between Odyssey and Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The latter is expected to outstrip the former’s record $123.5M opening for a live-action movie this year, and potentially even Toy Story 5‘s highest 3-day to date in 2026 of $159.6M. Instead, specialty distributors like IFC have their TIFF acquisition, the dialogue-less noir Motor City from Potsy Ponciroli, and starring Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster and Ben McKenzie. Ritchson plays a tough guy who falls for a local gangster’s girl. He gets framed by Foster’s 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.
Bleecker 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 their event cinema division Crosswalk and LD Entertainment. Hadestown: The Musical was shot in London on the West End last year and includes the five original principals of the Broadway company: Reeve Carney as Orpheus, André De Shields’ Tony Award-winning turn as Hermes, Amber Gray as Persephone, Eva Noblezada as Eurydice, and Patrick Page as Hades. Pre-sales have already eclipsed Waitress: The Musical, which Bleecker released in 2023.
Neon has Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Cannes out of competition noir genre pic, Her Private Hell starring Sophie Thatcher, Emmy nominee Charles Melton, Havana Rose Liu and Kristine Froseth. The pic is booked in around 700 sites and is also eyeing a low single digit start. Refn has been road showing the movie across the nation with stops in LA, Chicago, and New York. It’s Refn’s first movie in ten years, his last being 2016’s 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 solider whose lives are complicated by a killer in the city. The pic, which was largely funded by foreign sales, cost less than Neon Demon‘s $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.
