Story perspectives

‘The Odyssey’ Opens $264M, Tops IMDb, Beats Spielberg

7/24/2026

Summary

Story summary

The Odyssey opened in the United States with a $264 million weekend.
It holds a 95 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating and a 4.4-out-of-5 Letterboxd score.
The film entered IMDb’s Top 250, giving director Christopher Nolan nine titles and the most-represented director slot.
Elon Musk condemned Lupita Nyong’o’s Helen and Elliot Page’s Sinon casting as racist and lacking integrity.
Within one week it outgrossed Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, which earned $236.1 million over five weeks.

History

Historical Context

When George Lucas released *Star Wars* on May 25, 1977, the film’s unprecedented success doubled 20th Century Fox’s stock and raised the studio’s profit from $37 million to $79 million, establishing the summer blockbuster model alongside *Jaws*. The movie sparked a late-1970s boom in state-of-the-art visual effects and showed that merchandising revenue could exceed box-office earnings, a template later copied by other franchises.

1 of 2

Story summary

The Odyssey opened in the United States with a $264 million weekend.
It holds a 95 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating and a 4.4-out-of-5 Letterboxd score.
The film entered IMDb’s Top 250, giving director Christopher Nolan nine titles and the most-represented director slot.
Elon Musk condemned Lupita Nyong’o’s Helen and Elliot Page’s Sinon casting as racist and lacking integrity.
Within one week it outgrossed Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, which earned $236.1 million over five weeks.

1 / 2