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  1. ‘Odyssey’ Beats ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ At Global Weekend Box Office As Web Slinger Remains No. 3 All-Time With $2.4B WW – Global Box Office
    #News #SpiderManBrandNewDay #TheOdyssey

    deadline.com/2026/09/box-offic

  2. Robert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child
    By Philip Oltermann in Venice

    Actor says of busy 2026 in which he has had several big roles: ‘Once you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive’

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Venicefilmfestival #RobertPattinson #TheOdyssey #TheDrama #Film #Festivals #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilipOltermanninVenice

  3. Robert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child
    By Philip Oltermann in Venice

    Actor says of busy 2026 in which he has had several big roles: ‘Once you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive’

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Venicefilmfestival #RobertPattinson #TheOdyssey #TheDrama #Film #Festivals #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilipOltermanninVenice

  4. Robert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child
    By Philip Oltermann in Venice

    Actor says of busy 2026 in which he has had several big roles: ‘Once you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive’

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Venicefilmfestival #RobertPattinson #TheOdyssey #TheDrama #Film #Festivals #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilipOltermanninVenice

  5. Robert Pattinson Would’ve Been ‘Devastated’ to Drop Any 2026 Film

    Robert Pattinson is on a run at the movies. The actor, who just touched down at the Venice…
    #NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #AU #Australia #Dune3 #Entertainment #Primetime #RobertPattinson #TheBatmanPartII #theodyssey #Venice2026
    newsbeep.com/au/881204/

  6. Robert Pattinson shares what it was like switching between "Batman," "Dune," "The Odyssey" and "Primetime" - which he is premiering in Venice. #RobertPattinson #VeniceFilmFestival #Batman #Dune #TheOdyssey

  7. The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti

    The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.

    yle.fi/a/74-20243731

    #Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat

  8. The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti

    The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.

    yle.fi/a/74-20243731

    #Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat

  9. The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti

    The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.

    yle.fi/a/74-20243731

    #Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat

  10. The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti

    The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.

    yle.fi/a/74-20243731

    #Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat

  11. The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti

    The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.

    yle.fi/a/74-20243731

    #Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat

  12. Like everybody, I'm reading Emily Wilson's translation of "The Odyssey." Part of her intro turns on questions as old as time—& as new as ICE.

    Odysseus sorts people into "lawless aggressors" & "people who welcome strangers…[T]he willingness to welcome strangers is enough to guarantee that a person or culture can be counted as law-abiding and 'civilized'…[T]he laws of hospitality are what stave off a world where men kill those who are different from themselves."

    #TheOdyssey #Politics #AbolishICE

  13. Spider-Man Brand New Day box office: Labor Day weekend predictions

    Labor Day is notoriously quiet at the box office, and it looks like Peter Parker will be swinging…
    #NewsBeep #News #Movies #boxoffice #boxofficepredictions #ByAnyMeans #Cars #Coyotevs.Acme #Entertainment #Insidious:OutoftheFurther #Spider-Man:BrandNewDay #TheOdyssey #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/759278/

  14. Coyote vs Acme No. 2 at Box Office; Spider-Man Tops Titanic, Dog Stars

    It might not have been quite the show of emphatic box office support that Looney Tunes fans hoped…
    #NewsBeep #News #Topstories #boxoffice #buddy #CoyoteVs.Acme #Headlines #Insidious:OutoftheFurther #JacobElordi #JohnCena #LanaCondor #LooneyTunes #RidleyScott #Spider-Man:BrandNewDay #TheDogStars #TheOdyssey #Titanic #TomHolland #TopStories #WillForte
    newsbeep.com/712402/

  15. Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #FordvFerrari #TheOdyssey #MattDamon Matt Damon and Jon Bernthal’s Pre-’Odyssey’ Epic Is Officially a #1 Streaming Hit dlvr.it/TVChPX

  16. The Odyssey Shatters Final Christopher Nolan Box Office Record

    The latest cinematic achievement from writer-director Christopher Nolan has reached a new milestone. The Odyssey, his star-studded adaptation of the classic epic poem, has officially become the filmmaker's highest-grossing movie worldwide....

    #annehathaway #ChristopherNolan #MattDamon #TheOdyssey #TomHolland

    themovieblog.com/2026/08/the-o

  17. The Odyssey Shatters Final Christopher Nolan Box Office Record

    The latest cinematic achievement from writer-director Christopher Nolan has reached a new milestone. The Odyssey, his star-studded adaptation of the classic epic poem, has officially become the filmmaker's highest-grossing movie worldwide....

    #annehathaway #ChristopherNolan #MattDamon #TheOdyssey #TomHolland

    themovieblog.com/2026/08/the-o

  18. The Odyssey Shatters Final Christopher Nolan Box Office Record

    The latest cinematic achievement from writer-director Christopher Nolan has reached a new milestone. The Odyssey, his star-studded adaptation of the classic epic poem, has officially become the filmmaker's highest-grossing movie worldwide....

    #annehathaway #ChristopherNolan #MattDamon #TheOdyssey #TomHolland

    themovieblog.com/2026/08/the-o

  19. When the Roman emperor Tiberius turned a cave on the coast between Rome and Naples, into a private dining hall, the Odyssey was already about 700 years old. At the deepest point of the cave Tiberius placed a massive marble sculpture that showed the moment when Odysseus blinds the Cyclops, Polyphemus, a one-eyed man-eating giant.

    In 26 AD, while Tiberius was dining there, rocks fell from the roof of the grotto, crushing several of his attendants and nearly killing the emperor. In that collapse, the great marble figures were smashed, and there they lay, at the bottom of the cave, until 1957, when workers building a coastal road cut into the ground and found them.

    Slowly, piece by piece, the scene was meticulously put back together, and the sculptures now reside at the Sperlonga Archaeological Museum.

    #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #RomanHistory #Art #Sculpture #Archeology

  20. So, the bad news is, #MadelineMiller, one of my favorite authors, is still suffering from #LongCovid. The good news is, she has finished one short story ( #Galatea ) and another is due out in September ( #Mestra ). Maybe, just maybe, she'll finish #Persephone. And she is enjoying the renewed interest in #Classics because of #TheOdyssey.

    cc: @rogueclassicist

    #AncientGreece

  21. The Odyssey: Lots of Good Stuff, Some Bad Stuff as Well 🔱

    What’s likely to be the biggest cinematic hit of 2026 is Christopher Nolan’s epic The Odyssey. Anyone and everyone have already said their bit about the film, but we’ve decided to crop up with our opinions all the same!

    At nearly three hours it’s a monstrous undertaking. Unquestionably a mighty cinematic experience in IMAX, it does also suffer from stumbling stuff that drags it down, but all of it adds up to a glorious time of it. We had fun.

    Guilt and PTSD in The Odyssey

    Right. You probably know the plot already as this is adapted from Homer’s ancient Greek poem of the same name. Christopher Nolan has taken various liberties with the text, but the thrust of the story is sort of the same.

    Star, front and centre, is Odysseus (Matt Damon) the King of the island of Ithaca. He’s been away from home for 20 years as he’s been battling it out during the Trojan War of 12th century BC.

    After winning in a thrilling, last ditch Trojan Horse war move thing, it’s now left to Odysseus and his men to finally head on home. His wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) tentatively awaits him, in his absence she’s barely able to hold off 100 suitors eager to take Odysseus’s throne.

    But on the way back, Odysseus hits a series of relentless problems that escalate steadily into increasingly disastrous nightmares. As each episode plays out, the reality of the previous decade weighs heavily on his mind.

    For Nolan’s Odyssey, it sees Odysseus become mired in an increasing sense of PTSD. The reality of war plays on his consience to the extent he questions whether he even wants to return home.

    Hmmm! Well, there aren’t any official scenes available on YouTube yet, but you can get a great sense of the film with some sequences in the below.

    Okay, the great stuff sits with the set pieces. The cyclops, the giant dudes in armoured plating, the Trojan Horse build-up and battle sequence, and Circe the witch are all goddamn outstanding.

    It’s up to you which is best of the lot, but for us it’s the Trojan Horse stuff. Nolan at his absolute best and one of the best cinematic moments we’ve ever seen.

    However, quite a chunk of The Odyssey is also a bit on the flat side of things. Some of the acting and casting are questionable (we’re looking at you Tom Holland), the script can be Mickey Mouse, plus there are big chunks of dull stuff. Mainly anything involving Tom Holland’s bland performance.

    Plus, the super talented Mia Goth is in this film and she’s utterly wasted with almost no screen time or character development. As is the case for the excellent Robert Pattinson, whose Antinous is the main antagonist but 97% of the time is only ever in one room whilst grimacing.

    It’s almost like Nolan should have spread this out into two films to properly develop out the story. To get everything into three hours was hellish ambitious of him and it often works, but for us this isn’t a 5/5.

    It’s a very good film all the same. Highly recommended you see it in IMAX as this is the whole point. Take in the full cinematic spectacle, revel in the set pieces, and don’t get too upset about the story dwindling around a little bit. Well done to Mr. Nolan, he’s got people interested in history!

    A Quick Note on Odyssey’s Soundtrack

    Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson handled the music for Nolan’s latest film. The result is often very beautiful, he went to great lengths to use musical instruments that were around in antiquity.

    This meant his team had to bring many of them back to life, re-inventing instruments that haven’t been around in thousands of years. That included an ancient lyre and aulos (a wind instrument). Hurling in Albanian iso-polyphony choral music over the top and it’s quite distinct as a soundtrack, although does lapse into bombast when it needs to.

    Our favourite pieces? Sirens above is eerie and fabulous, then you’ve got the lush Ithaca theme below.

    The sound effects in the film are frequently deafening, too. In IMAX, the scream from Polyphemus the cyclops registers in at 125 decibels. That’s the loudest scream in modern cinema and up there with Roger Daltrey’s big moment in The Who’s hit single Won’t Get Fooled Again (for reference).

    Anyway, full credit to Ludwig Göransson as he does create some excellent moments with his score. Although, following Nolan’s lead, he’s often left to produce less intriguing pieces than the above.

    The Production of The Odyssey

    Okay, so this launched on 17th July 2026 and is still very much in cinemas. It’s just had its IMAX run extended into at least September as the tickets keep fully booking out. It’s really triggered a big response from the public, many of whom will experience the glory of IMAX for the first time.

    It’s like being hit by a sledgehammer of cinematic spectacle and that’s why we love it.

    The downside? It’s had a tedious backlash from the alt-right (headed by Elon Musk), who claim the film is whitewashing “history”. Their main beef is it’s “woke” as it was a trans actor in a small role and Helen of Troy is Lupita Nyong’o (i.e. not white). The hysterical meltdown they’ve had about it has done nothing to dent global box office figures. The film has already made $1.301 billion off its $250 million budget.

    Go woke, go broke indeed…

    As for the production cycle, following Nolan’s last film (2023’s Oppenheimer) he hadn’t worked out what to do next. Once decided, he went on to write the screenplay for The Odyssey and take on directing duties.

    The shoot last for 91 days across February and August of 2025. He worked so effectively everything wrapped nine days ahead of schedule! Despite shoots taking place all over the shop, including locations such as Morocco, Western Sahara, Greece, Italy, Scotland, and the US.

    Nolan is famous for embracing practical effects, so pretty much everything you see in the film most definitely isn’t CGI. That included building a 30ft cyclops for that scene, plus setting 5ft stunt actors against 7ft ones for others.

    The Odyssey is almost certain to win a big bunch of Oscars. No way a film earning this much, and getting so much internal attention, isn’t going to win a load of them. Watch this space in 2027 then for the Academy Awards.

    #Antiquity #ChristopherNolan #Cinema #Films #History #Homer #IMAX #Lifestyle #MattDamon #Movies #Odysseus #Odyssey #TheOdyssey
  22. I wanted to convince myself it was good fun but..
    How #AnneHathaway's manager could honestly have advised her to sign on to #TheEndOfOakStreet when she had literally just hit home runs with #DevilWearsPrada2 and #TheOdyssey defies all logic

    #RetirementPlanning
    #JahJahAbrams
    #Movies

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