THE ODYSSEY
- Era
- ODYSSEY
- Genres
- Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
- Released
- 2026-07-17
- Runtime
- 2h 53m
SIGNAL SUMMARY
- Released
- 2026-07-17
- Runtime
- 2h 53m
- Budget
- $250M
- Worldwide gross
- $346M
- IMDb
- 8.5 (184K votes)
- RT critics
- 94%
- Metacritic
- 88
- Oscars
- —
LANDFALL
The signal has resolved. In its opening days The Odyssey took $346M worldwide against a $250M budget, with 94% of 433 critics positive on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic of 88 — “universal acclaim.” Audiences seated it at 8.5 on IMDb across 184K early votes. Ranked against the twelve films that came before, here is where the thirteenth landed on each channel.
BOX OFFICE STILL ACCRUING — OPENING-RUN FIGURES PER WIKIPEDIA (BOX OFFICE MOJO / THE NUMBERS)
SHIP'S MANIFEST
A ship needs a crew. The billing that read as redacted contacts before release now resolves to names and the parts they play — Odysseus and his household, the suitors, the bard who sings the voyage. Top billing per IMDb.
- 01MATT DAMONODYSSEUS
- 02TOM HOLLANDTELEMACHUS
- 03ANNE HATHAWAYPENELOPE
- 04ROBERT PATTINSONANTINOUS
- 05TRAVIS SCOTTBARD
- 06COREY HAWKINSPOLYBUS
- 07JARRETH J. MERZLEODES
- 08NIKO NICOTERAPEISANDER
Command crew — confirmed
FULL-FRAME PROTOCOL
How it was shot is its own headline: First film shot entirely with IMAX 70mm film cameras. Every frame of the movie occupies the full-size IMAX negative — no scenes step down to a smaller format — which is what put the $346M opening onto the largest screens in the world.
SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA — THE ODYSSEY (2026 FILM)
THE OLDEST NONLINEAR STORY
The film adapts Homer's Odyssey, and the source suits the director: Homer's epic is the ur-text of nonlinear storytelling — told in medias res with nested flashback songs. Every Nolan film charted on this site — reversed, nested, palindromic — descends from that shape.