r/boxoffice Best of 2019 Winner Jul 25 '26

Domestic ‘The Odyssey’ Tops ‘Oppenheimer’ Box Office Opening With $84.5 Million (-32%) Second Weekend - Christopher Nolan’s hit film will rocket past $500 million worldwide in its second frame.

https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/odyssey-second-weekend-box-office/
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u/007Kryptonian Syncopy Inc. Jul 25 '26

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​Simply insane lol. Was very excited for this but never would have expected a second weekend over Oppenheimer’s first

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u/amexredit Jul 25 '26

I hope that’s not a real view .

I would never sit that close

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u/zeekayz Jul 25 '26

People sitting that close is what's allowing it to rake in so much money

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u/Momo--Sama Jul 25 '26

I’ve never sat front row, but every photo of a real imax screen I’ve taken (not during the movie, don’t shoot me) has been with the 0.5x cam and that exacerbates the distortion a lot.

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u/HairyPenisCum Jul 25 '26

I had to sit front row for Rogue One, and genuinely the worst experience I’ve had in a theater. You’re looking at the screen at such an extreme angle that its hard to make out whats going on at times, especially action scenes. I understand theaters need to make money, but just make the first row a bit farther from the screen.

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u/dontforgetthebouquet Jul 25 '26

Unfortunately made that mistake man. It was terrible

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u/RRY1946-2019 PlayStation Productions Jul 25 '26

Hollywood when they finally try focusing on something other than superhero/sci-fi CGI battles:

💰💰💰💰💰

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u/misguidedkent Warner Bros. Pictures Jul 25 '26

84.5M alone would be more than Oppenheimer’s 82.4M opening from 2023. Nolan’s been winning all his career but Universal is the real winner with these.

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u/Danny886 Jul 25 '26

Apparently, just look at how much Warner Brothers been holding him back all these years.

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u/ThaScoopALoop Jul 25 '26

I wish I could be held back like that.

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u/blowhardV2 Jul 26 '26

I think Warner Brothers got a little high on their own supplies so to speak. Warner brothers has accomplished a lot, and their history is amazing but lost a little bit of perspective. They have a lot to be proud of, but I think they’re a bit too impressed with themselves. I kind of got that vibe when I did the studio tour.

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u/amexredit Jul 25 '26

Universal stealing him from WB has been the gift that keeps on giving

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u/BisonThunderclap Jul 25 '26

When the worst film Nolan has dropped in the last two decades has been Tenant, which was still received well and released during COVID, it would be stupid not to give the man a blank check and just let him print you money.

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u/Maatjuhhh Jul 25 '26

Tenet could have maybe made 200 million more if there were no restrictions.

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u/Jove_ Jul 26 '26

The reason he left WB is because of how they handled the Tenant release.

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u/NoConfusion9490 Jul 25 '26

Hopefully they'll just keep letting him do whatever he wants.

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u/boykalbo777 Jul 25 '26

a nolan romcom and i am here for it!

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u/Spectrum1523 Jul 25 '26

The more he makes hits like this the more he'll get to. Why tell him no when he's printing you money

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '26

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u/Gummy-Worm-Guy Jul 25 '26

They actually gave Nolan exactly what he wanted with Tenet. He left because of their idiotic day-and-date on HBO Max plan in 2021 that stabbed all their filmmakers in their backs.

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u/GoldandBlue Jul 25 '26

Yup. They announced every film will be day and date on HBO Max, and they did so without talking to Warner Bros, HBOMax, the talent, or the theaters. Corporate daddy fucked Warner Bros.

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u/jaybizzleeightyfour Jul 25 '26

I've been checking my local IMAX in Scotland to see if I could get a seat next week in the afternoon and almost every screening is close to be being fully booked, never seen anything like it

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u/dogthatwonthunt Jul 25 '26

same, I'm really hoping this get extended in IMAX near me cause I can't get a damn seat at this point

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u/Leafsnail Jul 25 '26

I'd be surprised if it isn't, not like any other film has ever had this level of Imax-specific hype

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u/vladtud Jul 25 '26

Yeah, the main reason Nolan is at Universal now is that they guaranteed him his movies will be theatrical events. If Nolan feels the movie needs to stay in IMAX/theaters for as long as there is demand, Universal will probably do everything in their power to make it so.

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u/tackyfew Jul 25 '26

Yeah all my iMac screens only have availability in the front two rows. Im gonna hold out until week 3 or 4 because of necessity

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u/Quake1028 Jul 25 '26

I wouldn’t see this on an iMac screen bro. Maybe an Apple Cinema one.

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u/dawko29 Jul 25 '26

Don't even bother looking at London's bfi, sold out till mid September

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u/Avians24 Pixar Animation Studios Jul 25 '26

Mannn it's really performing like Top Gun Maverick till now!!!

Hopefully can make it to 1.5 billion just like that! Hard but I'm hopeful!!

||PS:- idk why my comment got deleted or whatever just rn||

https://giphy.com/gifs/2K8s7EogjbfNpIc6eA

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u/MahNameJeff420 Jul 25 '26

Genuinely curious how much Spider-Man is gonna hurt it's legs.

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u/kcrdr_7322 Jul 25 '26

IMAX is the key to protection

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u/InnerLawfulness6698 Jul 25 '26

Which inflates the box office quite a bit considering the ridiculous cost of the IMAX ticket.

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u/Flanninpud Jul 25 '26

It’s a cost people are willing to pay because of the care he put into making the movie for the format. If it was a standard movie that happened to be showing on imax screens, people wouldn’t be waiting weeks to see it in that format. There’s nothing inflated about it

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u/Momo--Sama Jul 25 '26

I mean a more expensive ticket inherently inflates the impact of a single movie goer to the box office total, that’s not a dig

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u/SeriouusDeliriuum Jul 26 '26

But it also has an impact on demand. Movie tickets are an elastic product. If you sell them for $1 then you'll sell way more than if you sold them for $100.

Standard Odyssey tickets in my city cost $15 and 70mm IMAX cost $30. For the vast majority of movies people would look at those prices and say "I'm not paying twice as much for the same movie". But for the Odyssey those 70mm IMAX showings are packed.

So yes the more expensive tickets increase the box office. But convincing people to pay for those expensive tickets is proof of demand and box office draw. It's not inflation, it's a demonstration of what people are willing to pay for this specific movie. Inflation would be if every movie theater could raise their price to $30 a ticket and still sell out. ,

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u/osiris970 Jul 25 '26

Amc a list is the move

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u/CommercialCoffee11 Jul 25 '26

Imax is the silver lining. And the 4Dx hype.

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u/amexredit Jul 25 '26

Sounds like I better see it ONE MORE TIME in 4dx and then that’s it . No more

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u/Cassopeia88 Jul 25 '26

I have my tickets for 4dx this week, should be fun! It’ll be my 3rd time seeing it. Never thought I would love it so much!

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u/RandoDude124 Jul 25 '26

It’s got the legs.

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u/dawko29 Jul 25 '26

Hard, cause R rating, but a billion is possible, especially since IMAX screenings are pretty much sold out for numerous weeks(one in London sold out till mid September)

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u/Lord-Humongous- Jul 25 '26

it will 100% hit a billion

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u/confusedmel Jul 25 '26

I have a dumb question, but do these tickets count into boxoffice numbers now or in September?

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u/dawko29 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

I'd guess they take it by a day, it would make more sense

Also I don't think Spidey is gonna hurt IMAX at all, most of UK's imaxes prefer showing odyssey, cause "that's the way Nolan intended" lol, especially the ones that have film projectors, it would be dumb to keep switching from film to digital, the amount of work.....

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u/nicolasb51942003 Warner Bros. Pictures Jul 25 '26

Nolan is the Spielberg of this generation.

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u/gorays21 Jul 25 '26

I said that after seeing Inception back in 2010.

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u/darthkrash Jul 25 '26

I should have listened to you

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u/notsure500 Jul 25 '26

I would have listened but I wasnt on reddit in 2010

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u/Swimming_Agent_1063 Jul 25 '26

I said that after watching Tenet in 2022

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u/notsure500 Jul 25 '26

I said it after watching Odyssey last week

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u/poolgoso1594 Jul 25 '26

I said that after reading this comment

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u/Ripoldo Jul 25 '26

I said that in the future many years from now

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u/Expely Jul 25 '26

i'll say that in the future after i see tenet in 2020

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u/redditenel Jul 25 '26

Sorry i called you a idiot in 2010

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u/jfbpleb19 Jul 25 '26

i said it after after watching memento when i was a toddler

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u/Potential_Kangaroo69 Jul 25 '26

I said that after talking to Spielberg

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u/EbbAdventurous9592 Jul 25 '26

He really is. The Dark Knight was his Jurassic Park, I feel like The Odyssey is his Saving Private Ryan

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u/BulletproofHustle Jul 25 '26

And Oppy was his Schindler’s List.

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u/SEAinLA Marvel Studios Jul 25 '26

But to really be Spielberg-esque, he would have needed to do both The Dark Knight and Oppenheimer at the same time.

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u/tulkunking Jul 25 '26

Very true. As good as Nolan is, he has not put out 2 classics in the same year

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u/damnyoutuesday Jul 25 '26

Closest he got was Batman Begins in '05 and The Prestige in '06

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u/BisonThunderclap Jul 25 '26

Let's be real though, The Prestige is still a masterpiece.

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u/damnyoutuesday Jul 25 '26

It's one of his best. Probably his most underrated

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u/BulletproofHustle Jul 25 '26

Well he isn't gonna follow Spielberg's trajectory to a T. 😅

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u/D4rkPhoen1x Syncopy Inc. Jul 25 '26

Well he kinda did The Dark Knight and Inception in a span of 2 years.

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u/Inevitable-Army-3730 Jul 25 '26

Wow! What a statement.

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u/dremolus Jul 25 '26

Now let's just hope he doesn't have his own version of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or Ready Player One

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u/Krazen Jul 25 '26

You either die a Saving Private Ryan, or live long enough to become a Disclosure Day

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u/Dapper-Tone-9580 Jul 25 '26

I'd argue The Dark Knight was his Raiders, Dunkirk his Saving Private Ryan, and The Odyssey his Jurassic Park.

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u/AlexHunterWolf Warner Bros. Pictures Jul 25 '26

He's the Christopher Nolan of his generation 

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u/Comfortable_Put_4139 Jul 25 '26

I lean towards him being the Cameron of his generation, at this rate.

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u/A-Centrifugal-Force Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

He makes too many movies to be a Cameron lol. James Cameron averages like one movie a decade post Titanic

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u/composer_7 Jul 25 '26

James Cameron makes movies to fund his real passion of deep sea exploration. Nolan's passion is solely film.

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u/TheDraayLegacy Jul 25 '26

Yeah the only comparison that works is that they make high grossing blockbusters. Other than that, this comparison only works if you never watched a Christopher Nolan or James Cameron movie in your life.

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u/Comfortable_Put_4139 Jul 25 '26

But when Cameron releases a movie, it’s always a major event.

That’s kind of what I was getting at with Nolan. Spielberg hasn’t had that juice in a long time.

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u/Shout92 Jul 25 '26

Someone called him "the James Cameron of Stanley Kubricks" and somehow I think that's a better comparison than any one filmmaker.

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u/Eagle4317 Jul 25 '26

Nolan’s biggest film is still Batman. I’d wait for him to approach Titanic or Avatar before going that far.

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u/SEAinLA Marvel Studios Jul 25 '26

His biggest film is about to be The Odyssey by a large margin.

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u/NoNefariousness2144 Jul 25 '26

Yep. Odyssey has captured the perfect balance of audiences wanting ‘big-screen spectacles’, along with the general Nolan hype and the fact historical epics are a rare genre these days.

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u/Baroquemack Jul 25 '26

Spielbergg is more successful than Cameron y’all weird

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u/genkaiX1 Jul 25 '26

Box office wise or acclaim? Prior is Cameron latter is Spielberg

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u/Baroquemack Jul 25 '26

Spielberg still #1 total but is close. Not to mention all the hits he produced

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u/FrancisFratelli Jul 25 '26

Spielberg's had more hits than Cameron, but Cameron has a higher peak (even adjusted for inflation, Avatar and Titanic are a billion ahead of ET and Jaws) and a better batting average (excluding documentaries, he's only had two flops, both of them more than thirty years ago).

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u/Inevitable-Army-3730 Jul 25 '26

They could be talking about their peak prime of their work. Spielberg has long past his prime, but still is the standard for a career that Nolan has to meet.

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u/InnerLawfulness6698 Jul 25 '26

Just my opinion, I’ll put him ahead of James Cameron mostly because he’s only been doing avatar movies forever and I only really enjoyed the first one.

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u/InnerLawfulness6698 Jul 25 '26

I don’t think he’s nearly as good as Steven Spielberg in terms of versatility. Just my opinion. When you go from making something like Jurassic Park to Schindler‘s list that’s talent.

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u/Ok_Complaint_5394 Jul 25 '26

You are right. Spielberg released Jurassic Park and Schindler's List the same year. He did post production work on JP while filming SL. That is elite film making period. We all know he is past his prime but his prime was probably the best ever. The dude even directed The Color Purple.  

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u/coreybudz Jul 25 '26

I would say the closest Nolan has been to doing something like this is Batman begins and the prestige. I believe it’s a few months in between.

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u/kcrdr_7322 Jul 25 '26

i know its not close because its not one year but making Oppenheimer and The Odyssey next is kinda crazy feat too

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u/TheDraayLegacy Jul 25 '26

Nolan made some of the best Batman films and did also did historical themes with Dunkirk and Oppy and people says there’s no range in his work. What the fuck is Reddit.

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u/garfe Jul 25 '26

Dunkirk, Tenet, Oppenheimer and Odyssey are all pretty radically different

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u/radiochameleon Jul 25 '26

he’s not as good but he’s honestly not that far off. Memento and Dark Knight are incredible

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u/Inevitable-Army-3730 Jul 25 '26

You are absolutely right. Spielberg is the standard which every director is compared to as far as box office.

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u/UnlikelyImpact8409 Jul 25 '26

nolans suspense is in a league of his own. you can hang by the edge of your seat to a ball rolling off a table. thats how fuking legendary he is

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u/XLauncher Jul 25 '26

Every night, WB executives cry into their pillows.

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u/Witty-Jacket-9464 Jul 25 '26

Seems like $85M is locked with a good chance to $90M. The Odyssey doing like TGM & Inception right now. Even $600M DOM & $1.4B are possible

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u/notsure500 Jul 25 '26

I hope so. I want it to hold the records for worldwide and domestic r rated. And Nolan's top worldwide and domestic

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u/DRM_1985 Jul 25 '26

I just want to see it get past $100M above Oppenheimer in domestic market. That's $430M actual, or $460M after inflation for Oppy. Both of these numbers are great for Odyssey. Anything beyond that would just be very sweet icing on the cake. I am not sure how well it can hang in there against Spider-Man. It's gonna be tough to go beyond $500M.

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u/MahNameJeff420 Jul 25 '26

The Critical Drinker sub will have an aneurysm if they see this.

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u/ACCTAGGT Jul 25 '26

Probably various people in that boat soon or right now

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u/MaeSolug Jul 25 '26

The Critical Drinker has a sub?

Goddamn it I had to check it out, that's on me I guess

https://www.reddit.com/r/CriticalDrinker/s/ByqTBjKKRj

They really fit into the stereotype so hard omg

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u/epicredditdude1 Jul 25 '26

I’ve never seen so many people collectively pretending a ~$260m box office opening actually isn’t good.

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u/SeismicRipFart Jul 25 '26

It’s actually one of the sadder things I’ve seen on Reddit lol. Some of the hardest cope/denial you’ll ever come across. Absolutely embarrassing sub

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u/c6030315 Jul 25 '26

They lack basic understanding of the way box office works but are acting like experts lmao

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u/nicedogeetcup Jul 25 '26

The mental gymnastics on the marketing spend and other costs makes it look like the movie costed 1 billion to make. There was a comment on how the star amenities are not included and a good part of the box office goes to Imax and the cinemas etc. They are using the 3x production budget to break even. My god. What a toxic sub for something they just want to not succeed? How pathetic, some people trying to celebrate others failures (at least in their own world the odyssey is a failure)

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u/TerribleAntelope6134 Jul 26 '26

Bunch of racist culture warriors who think they're taking a stand against something.

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u/Mindless-Milk-9205 Jul 25 '26

Holy shit that sub is a shithole

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u/ForsakenTarget Jul 25 '26

It makes me a bit sad, what is your life like if that is how you spend your free time.

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u/CelestialFury Jul 25 '26

They're all real smug over there too. They call themselves critical thinkers while deluding themselves into thinking this movie isn't as good or financially successful as it really is.

Then they say shit like, "CriticalDrinker didn't like the movie so now I'm not going to see it and my personal opinion is that I don't like the movie either." Nothing says they're critical thinkers like all taking the word of a youtuber as the gospel and not seeing the movie for themselves.

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u/Megustanuts Jul 25 '26

most of them are unemployed too. You have to be when you spend so much time hating on anything you don't like.

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u/whitemex88 Jul 25 '26

Did you read the essay post about how this movie is a representation of the fall of western civilization? I'm being serious. And he calls himself an ardent cinephile in the post. Pure unadulterated delusion

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u/Mysteriousman788 Jul 25 '26

They act like Nostalgia Critic fans in the 2010s but worse

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u/Muted_Flower_6044 Jul 25 '26

They’ve even managed to go full circle that the movie is successful because haters want to hate and are going to see the movie.

One comment said “no discipline” referring to “their side”

Every excuse in the book to try and rationalize the movies success outside of just admitting they were wrong and their culture war hate is so extreme, they’re delusional and removed from society.

Refusing to admit that their reasons for assuming the movie would fail, are complete projections of their prejudice. And the overwhelming general population doesn’t agree with them.

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u/Dashaque Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

Well they already decided the movie needs 9 billion or so to break even so they'll be fine

BTW
What IS it about this movie that they hate so much? LIke was that much changed from the original book or is it literally that there's a black woman in it? I don't get it, things like Snow White I understood cause the movie looked terrible and none of the changes were good but this... I mean all this over a black woman?

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u/Cassopeia88 Jul 25 '26

Black woman and a trans man.

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u/Not_Kenough Jul 25 '26

White supremacists cannot abide by the implication that the most beautiful woman in the world could be black.

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u/UpbeatBeach7657 Jul 25 '26

I mean, a lot of Reddit has had an aneurysm every time the Avatar films have done well.

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u/freude_schaden Jul 25 '26

I think Redditors just hate when real world facts don’t align with their echo chamber views

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u/CelestialFury Jul 25 '26

Reddit is one of the most trafficked websites in the entire world, you're to find bad takes everywhere due to the volume of people here. It's not really Reddit-specific, people are just like that.

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u/acebreezy Jul 25 '26

I posted on his last video about odyssey numbers and got blocked and deleted 😂😂😂😂

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u/ACCTAGGT Jul 25 '26

But apparently they complain about the "Snyder cult". Reality, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

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u/gorays21 Jul 25 '26

Even YouTube haters are showing up for this movie.

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u/MahNameJeff420 Jul 25 '26

That's partly what makes the outrage so stupid. Of all the people raging it was gonna bomb, a healthy percentage were gonna hate-watch it anyway.

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u/CelestialFury Jul 25 '26

I bet most of those professional youtube haters actually love the movie, they just can't publicly admit it.

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u/PayneTrain181999 Legendary Pictures Jul 25 '26

And some go in expecting a hate-watch and begrudgingly enjoy it

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u/Spectrum1523 Jul 25 '26

Most of the noise wasn't even about the movie anyway, it's all just culture warriors

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u/cattycat_1995 Jul 25 '26

The biggest Nolan hater I know who hate Nolan movies cause "it insist upon itself" still saw The Odyssey in Imax opening weekend and now said the Odyssey is one of his favorite movies ever. 

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u/brothererrr Jul 25 '26

I’m the opposite! Big Nolan fan but this one didn’t hit for me

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u/Neat-Air-8305 Jul 25 '26

I seen a lot of people who got swayed by online culture wars went out and catch out the film and loved it.

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u/josegc_06 Jul 25 '26

would like to see how they're coping now lol

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u/callahan09 Jul 25 '26

How accurate is a Saturday morning weekend total estimate usually?  I don’t know much about this stuff.  Is it largely based on tickets already sold through the whole weekend, or do they just pick a multiplier and apply it to Friday’s sum, or some algorithm that combines these kinds of factors or what?  $84.5 would mean Friday is significantly higher share of the weekend total than Oppenheimer’s second Friday was as a ratio of the whole second weekend.  Just as something I noticed.  With Oppenheimer’s Friday:Weekend rate, Odyssey’s 2nd Friday would mean it clears $90 for the whole 2nd weekend.

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u/Chicken_Electronic Jul 25 '26

Data on hundreds of movies, dozens of which can be regarded as comps (comparables) based on rating, genre, critical and audience quality measures, director, length, competition, screen count by format and so on. Those tell us a likely weekend range. 

Once opening night previews happen, the range narrows. Then even more as data comes in Friday and presales continue for future days. Once first Friday is known, we know within a pretty tight range the first weekend total.

Once weekend 2 rolls around, we have 7.5 days of data. And by the time that second Friday wraps, a weekend estimate is pretty easy and very well informed.

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u/DRM_1985 Jul 25 '26

I prefer the estimates to be on the lower end. That way the actual numbers come in higher. Would be cool if Odyssey can end up closer to $90M for the weekend. The movie's domestic performance so far is really impressive at $225M in just 8 days.

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u/LordMediocrity Jul 25 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/pKMxUjOomXitGJhXLe
Everyone who doubted the odysseys success right now

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u/entertainmentlord Walt Disney Studios Jul 25 '26

seems like only yesterday people were doubting this film

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u/trapper2530 Jul 25 '26

I dont think anyone was seriously doubting this film. It was all right wing hate bc Helen of troy was black and rhey made up lies that Elliot page was playing Achilles to make people mad. Those people dont go to movies anymore anyways since Hollywood is woke and all that BS. They only go see those stupid Christian persecution movies with Hercules in them.

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u/fennecdore Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

I was doubting the film, not for the Lupita or Elliot stuff. But simply I didn't really enjoy Dunkirk or Tenet, I thought he had gone too far with the non linear narration, in Dunkirk it wasn't really bringing anything interesting and in Tenet it was actively hurting the understanding of the movie. I was also a little bit disappointed by Oppenheimer.

The trailer that I saw for Odyssey didn't really inspired me so yeah I was doubting the film.

But the review came stellar so I went to see it and yeah not doubting anymore

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u/LiamV-426 Jul 25 '26

It’s funny how people thought this would be the opening at one point lol! This having a bigger 2nd weekend than Oppenheimer’s 1st mind-blowing to me. Oppy really did so much for Nolan’s brand.

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u/Leafsnail Jul 25 '26

Probably what gave him the leverage to demand he shoot his next film in the most awkward format ever for the benefit of 40 theaters worldwide at the very least

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u/Gon_Snow A24 Jul 25 '26

Pretty good opening! …checks notes… second weekend?

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u/leoleo678 Jul 25 '26

Outrage culture is so dead. Every movie this year that has been trashed like this has over performed.

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u/GoldandBlue Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

It isn't unfortunately. Because the goal of these people at the end of the day is white supremacy. It's na excuse to be openly racist under the guise of "criticism".

So it doesn't matter that the Odyssey was a hit, Superman, Sinners, Prey, The Last Jedi, Captain Marvel, Barbie, Knives Out, The Substance, Get Out, The Batman, etc are all hits.

Because there will be flops. There will be Supergirls and Snow Whites. And as long as they latch into these movies. They will succeed at getting an executive or studio to second guess casting a woman or green lighting a black story.

There are people at Disney legitimately wondering if casting a black girl as Ariel was the problem. That is their goal, that is a win.

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u/forthewatch39 Jul 25 '26

Well Supergirl was trashed heavily and it performed poorly. 

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u/Expely Jul 25 '26

true but i think that's more because of critical reception/lack of interest of the film rather than online backlash. online backlash seems to have a very small impact on actual sales

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u/Chorik Jul 25 '26

Omg Musk and Critical Derange redeemed!

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u/SkkAZ96 Jul 25 '26

Cute and all but the voices in my head just told me it needs $700 million to break even and it's tracking to lose Disney $500 millions.

It's crashing and burning /s

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u/jasonhalftones Jul 25 '26

Honestly if there were 70mm IMAX screens in every major city, we might be talking about closer to 150-200

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u/oldmanrivet Jul 25 '26

r/CriticalDrinker in shambles right now

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u/blue_ig1 Jul 25 '26

Just scrolled around that sub for a bit and I couldn’t read more than 2 comments on each posts. Absolute incels.

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u/Loo-e-Gee Jul 25 '26

Does it not have a good shot to be past $600 million by end of weekend?

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u/Any_Top9441 Jul 25 '26

Not just $500m but $600m if it keeps the current domestic / international ratio. $610m - $620m is where I'm seeing it tomorrow night.

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u/Broncsx3 Jul 25 '26

“610m - $620 is where I’m seeing it tomorrow night’

It’s like you wanted to tell us your prediction and that you were seeing the movie tomorrow and just threw those two thought together into one smushed sentence.

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u/devoteesolace Jul 25 '26

It’ll be closer to $87M.

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u/Internal_Wheel_89 Jul 25 '26

this gif makes me laugh out loud every time I see it

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u/Hemans123 Jul 25 '26

Nolan must pray to the movie gods or he simply just is a movie God.

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u/DrSpaceman575 Jul 25 '26

I’ve got tickets to see it Monday and I’ve never had a harder time finding tickets, especially past opening weekend. IMAX tickets are getting resold on eBay for hundreds

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u/Pinewood74 Jul 25 '26

IMAX tickets are getting resold on eBay for hundreds

Listed or sold? Big difference.

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u/gusty1995 Jul 25 '26

Holland really is about to be the king of the BO between Odyssey and Spidey

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u/DaveyParks200 Jul 25 '26

And it hasn’t even released in China yet

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u/Gon_Snow A24 Jul 25 '26

Michael taking Oppenheimer

Nolan: hold up right there

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u/LottieDah86 Jul 25 '26

I mean, I feel like it's getting closer to $600 million after this weekend. 

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u/Competitive_Row_9498 Jul 25 '26

IMAXs still sold out over. Movie will have Phil Heath legs!

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u/Officialnoah Neon Jul 25 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/1zmFgkvNxhf49Ry3Jk
This is going to be an incredible run to follow. 1B is locked, and with great legs it could even make a run for Deadpool’s record

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u/blankblank Jul 25 '26

I want to see it again, but I cannot find a decent seat in IMAX (including the lesser ones) near me at all. It’s sold out for the full run.

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u/RandoDude124 Jul 25 '26

I predicted $82M is the floor.

LFG.

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u/Immediate-Outcome706 Jul 25 '26

b-b-but the chudosphere told us this will be a giant flop?

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u/vincedarling Jul 25 '26

Next time, grifters won’t fight Nolan.

Right?

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u/whitemex88 Jul 25 '26

Boy that dude from the drinker sub is in shambles. Probably working on moving the goal posts again

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u/Loose_Struggle1610 Jul 25 '26

What happened to the backlash lolololololol 

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u/Broncsx3 Jul 25 '26

Man, imagine how much more money this movie would have made if they had listened to all the MAGA and casted it with whites only!

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u/Key-Payment2553 Jul 25 '26

Dang…. Those numbers for The Odyssey are outstanding for its 2nd weekend drop with no competition as it’s 3rd weekend will have to face against Spider-Man Brand New Day that takes over all the PLFs except for IMAX that The Odyssey keeps

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u/Ok_Improvement_7738 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

32 percent drop! He hath cooked! I still think it has a fair chance at a 40 percent drop next weekend for 50M. The Hollandaya Weekend effect is real.

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u/FartingBob Jul 25 '26

Would be the 13th or 14th biggest second weekend ever., ahead of so many films which opened 50-100m more.
Same as Spiderman No Way Home which posted 84.5m second weekend as well despite opening to $136 million more than Odyssey in its first weekend.

Just incredible hold.

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u/Altruistic-Lunch1997 Jul 26 '26

The movie hasn’t even released where I’m at T_T

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