5 Reasons ‘The Odyssey’ Defied Box Office Expectations, Including Imax’s Monster $52 Million Start

Per Variety, Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' opened to one hundred twenty-four point five million dollars domestically and two hundred sixty-four point one million dollars globally. The film adapts Homer's ancient epic poem—an unusual choice for a mainstream blockbuster—with particular success in IMAX, which generated fifty-two million dollars of the domestic opening.

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