Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is becoming more than a box office success; it’s becoming a cultural phenomenon. Nolan’s film has sold out premium format screens for weeks, and the box office tally now stands at $652 million (against a $250 million budget). Both audiences and critics are raving about the film, but maybe the same […]
It has been 39 years since the most underrated James Bond actor made his screen debut, and the star’s work in his first 007 movie has since gone on to inspire even Christopher Nolan. It is never easy for an actor to take over the iconic role of James Bond. The super spy might have […]
The Odyssey has been a runaway success, breaking box office records and receiving glowing reviews from critics and audiences alike. The film boasted a $250 million dollar budget and one of the most star-studded casts Hollywood has seen in recent years. Bringing a world like The Odyssey to life was a massive undertaking, one that […]
Christopher Nolan is one of the biggest directors in cinema today, so much so that even before The Odyssey was released and broke records, there was already huge anticipation surrounding the movie, with tickets selling out a year in advance. He has already done pretty much everything in sci-fi, thrillers, and war films, but there […]
While The Odyssey is fast becoming one of the biggest successes of Christopher Nolan’s multi-decade career, it is easy to work out why this fantasy epic worked when so many big-budget entries into the genre recently fell flat. Christopher Nolan’s take on The Odyssey was, unavoidably, a big risk for the filmmaker. Yes, admittedly, the […]
A couple of weeks before Spider-Man: Brand New Day started crushing box office records on a seemingly daily basis, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey made plenty of history of its own at the multiplex. Bolstered by enthusiastic reviews hailing the fantasy epic as one of Nolan’s best works, audiences flocked in droves to the theater, making […]
Right now, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is generating daily headlines thanks to its incredible box office performance, shattering multiple records only a week into its run. With the way Marvel’s latest has completely dwarfed everything else in theaters, it’s easy to forget that there was another record-breaking blockbuster only a couple of weeks prior. Christopher […]
This summer has proven to be a massive one for movies, with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey grossing close to $1 billion and Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossing more than $1 billion at the box office so far (and still climbing, especially in the case of Brand New Day, which hasn’t even been […]
The Odyssey is officially Christopher Nolan’s best-ever global box office start, opening with an absolute bang to $264.1 million worldwide and $124.5 million domestically. Those totals are far above what Universal and trade publications had projected for the epic film starring Matt Damon. Going into the weekend, The Odyssey was projected to open within the […]
Christopher Nolan has been thinking about the Trojan Horse for a long time. Years before he adapted Homer’s The Odyssey, Nolan was attached to direct Troy, and he has since revealed that one image from that unrealized project never left him. The towering wooden Horse, and the way he envisioned presenting it on screen, stayed […]