@gofckapineapple The source material itself is nonlinear…it starts with four books on his son setting out to find him, and then goes to the end of Odysseus journey where then he tell his journey in flashbacks. So I am confused as to what Nolan did wrong…
Christopher Nolan just showed Trojan Horse footage from The Odyssey at CinemaCon. The business math behind this movie is wild.
$250 million budget. His most expensive film ever. First movie shot entirely on IMAX 70mm cameras. No franchise, no sequel, no superhero IP. The source material is a 3,000-year-old poem.
IMAX opening weekend tickets went on sale a full year before release. They sold out in 12 hours. $1.5 million in ticket revenue before a single TV spot aired.
The trailer pulled 121.4 million views in 24 hours. More than Universal's Wicked sequel. More than double what Oppenheimer's first trailer did in the same window.
Today's footage confirmed Charlize Theron is playing Calypso, the nymph who kept Odysseus trapped on her island for seven years. The scene opens with Damon asking her "How long have I been here?" He can't remember if he had a wife or a son.
That's pure Nolan. Starting the story in captivity, with a man who's lost his own identity. The same filmmaker who opened Memento backwards.
The cast is absurd: Damon, Holland, Hathaway, Pattinson, Zendaya as Athena, Lupita Nyong'o, Theron, Bernthal as Menelaus, Safdie as Agamemnon, Mia Goth, Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Travis Scott. Nolan joked it would be faster to list who isn't in it.
His last five films averaged $680 million worldwide. Oppenheimer made $976 million with an R rating and a three-hour runtime about a physicist.
Every studio spent the last decade convinced original films can't open big. Nolan's response: adapt the oldest story in Western literature. Homer's been in public domain for about 2,500 years.
Nolan IS the franchise. His name on a poster does what a superhero logo used to do. Universal figured this out when they signed him after Warner Bros let him walk over a streaming window dispute. Twenty years of partnership, gone.
July 17. IMDb's most anticipated film of 2026. Built from a poem your ninth-grade English teacher assigned.
Breaking Bad came back every year.
Better call Saul came back every year.
The Sopranos ran yearly.
The Wire ran yearly.
Your favorite sitcoms did 20 plus episodes a year for over a decade.
When TV was allowed to exist before streaming disrupted it, this was the norm.
Good TV, great TV even will always have staying power. It will always be relevant. TV is a yearly model for a reason.
I respect John, to be clear, but yeah I don’t agree.
it's black music month, here's some pop culture moments related to it:
1) donna summer's 'hot stuff' is the reason why 'gimme gimme gimme' by abba exists, when the members heard it they wanted a song that had the same energy and catchiness
Whenever someone says that the greatest show of all time is The Sopranos or Breaking Bad or The Wire or Mad Men etc I think to myself, “This idiot has clearly never seen Vanderpump Rules seasons 2, 3, and 10.”