‘The Odyssey’s $84M+ Second Weekend Will Be A Record For Christopher Nolan, Besting ‘Dark Knight’ – Box Office Update - Deadline

SATURDAY AM: Universal’s The Odyssey remains strong after a near $26M Friday, still on course to post Christopher Nolan’s best second weekend ever at the box office with $84.5M. All enhanced formats — Imax, PLFs and 70MM — are driving 58% of Odyssey‘s second weekend. That’s a greater percentile share than last weekend’s 53%. Broken out we have Imax at 29% (5% from Imax 70MM and 24% digital), with PLFs at 22% (Dolby reps 4% of that figure). Of the 34 Imax 70MM screens this weekend, the top five so far are the TCL Chinese Theatre (with a massive $128K), Regal LA Live, Regal Irvine Spectrum in Orange County, then Regal Opry Mills in Nashville, and Regal UA Colorado Center in Denver. Top grossing pure 70MM theatre is the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA with the top grossing 35MM theater for the Nolan pic coming from Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park in NYC. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article1-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article") .addSize(,,,,,,,,]) .exemptFromSleep() .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Speaking of the TCL Chinese Theatre, we hear that when it comes to actual sales plus pre-sales (through week 5), The Odyssey has become the all-time best grossing movie at the historic venue with $2.48M, topping Oppenheimer‘s run which counted $2.38M. Watch on Deadline if ( !window.pmc.harmony?.isEventAdScheduledTime() ) { pmcCnx.cmd.push(function() { pmcCnx({ settings: { plugins: { pmcAtlasMG: { iabPlcmt: 2, } } }, playerId: '32fe25c4-79aa-406a-af44-69b41e969e71', playlistId: '0199e506-e642-7728-8264-463efe71337b', }).render("connatix_contextual_player_div"); }); } else { // This should only be get called when page cache is not cleared and it's event time. window.pmc.harmony?.switchToHarmonyPlayer(); } The takeaway here for the industry (specifically filmmakers and reps who prod studios to boost their theater counts), is that a minority of screens are driving the majority of a tentpole’s gross. A movie doesn’t need a massive 4,000-plus footprint to rake in a ton. This weekend, The Odyssey is over indexing in the East, Canada, and the West. Guys are still dominant at 52% in weekend 2 according to Screen Engine/Rentrak’s PostTrak, but a little less so versus pic’s opening weekend where dudes repped 59%. The over-25 crowd remains consistent at 76% with half of the audience being 18-34. Definite recommend scores are still high with men at 84% and women at 82%. Among the new stuff that’s counter programming, Bleecker Street’s Crosswalk and LD release of Broadway capture Hadestown is the best with $4M yesterday (including $1.5M previews) for what’s shaping up to be an $8M-$9M opening at 1,949 sites. That’s without any PLF screens. The pic played best in East, South, Midwest and Mountain with the AMC Dine-In Disney Springs in Florida the top grossing theater with $25K+. Hadestown we hear is a five-night only event. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dl-mid-article-inject2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article2") .addSize(,,,,,]) .exemptFromSleep() .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); IFC’s noir Motor City pulled in an estimated $850K on Friday (including previews) for what is shaping up to be a $1.8M opening in 8th place at 1,600. Rotten Tomatoes audience score on the avant garde film is 64%, not far from its 66% fresh critics score. Neon’s Nicolas Winding Refn movie, Her Private Hell, did $270K on Friday (including Thursday previews), for what’s looking like a $625K opening outside the top 10 at 670 locales. That result looks to put Her Private Hell on a course to outstrip the entire domestic gross of his 2013 Ryan Gosling fisticuffs movie, Only God Forgives ($779K). It’s also ahead of the opening of Refn’s last film, 2016’s Neon Demon, starring Elle Fanning which debuted to $589K at 783 theaters, that Amazon theatrical release distributed by the late Broad Green Pictures (this was back in the day when Amazon didn’t have a theatrical distribution arm). Refn has been working it, tub thumping his first movie in ten years. How’s that? “I fell down a rabbit hole with streaming,” he says in the IG post below, while emphasizing “polarization is success.” View this post on Instagram In addition, the Her Private Hell cast Sophie Thatcher, 2x Emmy Beef nominee Charles Melton and Havana Rose Liu has been out there doing interviews since Cannes. One of the mega takeaways from the movie is its classical score from 85-year old Italian composer Pino Donaggio who worked on several Brain De Palma films. No RT audience score. No CinemaScores or PostTrak audience exits for Hadestown, Her Private Hell and Motor City. The overall three-day marketplace in North America sans a major studio wide entry stands around $140.6M, -25% off from a year ago, when Disney/Marvel Studio’s opened Fantastic Four: First Steps. 11. Jana Nayagan (PMP) 415 theaters, Fri  $260K 3-day $865K/Total $1.45M/Wk 1 The movie in Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu is posting big numbers in Toronto, Seattle, Vancouver, Dallas, NYC and Austin. The H. Vinoth directed and written action movie stars Joseph Vijay and follows ideological enemies –one a populist, another an authoritarian–who meet again after a child’s fear awakens old conflicts, and pulls an ex-cop into a struggle beyond vengeance. UPDATED, FRIDAY PM: Well, it is clear the weekdays showed how much of a driving force Universal’s The Odyssey would be, and the feature take of Homer’s epic poem is headed for a second frame of $84.5 million, the best a Christopher Nolan film has ever seen. If that estimate holds, it will top his previous second-weekend high, for 2008’s The Dark Knight ($75.1M). Some rivals today believe the movie can even hit $90M. Among R-rated movies, The Odyssey is currently bound for the second-best second weekend ever behind Deadpool & Wolverine‘s $96.8M in 2024. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-mid-articleX-uid2' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-articleX") .addSize(,,]) .exemptFromSleep() ; });