{"id":252526,"date":"2026-07-18T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/the-odyssey-tops-the-box-office-and-rt-despite-review-bombers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:22:14","slug":"the-odyssey-tops-the-box-office-and-rt-despite-review-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/the-odyssey-tops-the-box-office-and-rt-despite-review-bombers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey tops the box office and RT despite review bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/TheOdyssey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TheOdyssey<\/a> didn\u2019t need a Trojan Horse to break into the top of Friday\u2019s box office charts.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d earned $51 million on Friday. Early estimates had the saga grossing $90 million to $100 million by Sunday, but after a stellar opening day, forecasts\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qNpWfRfM0x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qNpWfRfM0x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2078508238639890451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-The controversial film &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; is set to have the best North American box office debut to date with $120.5M after Friday\/previews of $51.2M.<\/p>\n<p>-Despite the trailer getting review bombed and racists\/transphobics attempting to get people to skip the film, The Odyssey is set to make $137.3M overseas bringing its global opening to $257.8M, right behind child friendly Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($372.5M) and Toy Story 5 ($312M).<\/p>\n<p>-The film has also opened to a 95% RT score with over 200 reviews. <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1784404800%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262185122%26%26%26youtube%26OfTs-mJZLD8%3A14d24de1146a8b57d069fca9549565176d8f6739&amp;noads=&amp;preview=&amp;moduleid=2185122&amp;vid=OfTs-mJZLD8&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;source=youtube\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2185122\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>-Among all of the troll hate for the newest Odyssey, people have forgotten about the tv film from 1997 that starred Vanessa Williams as Calypso and featured a diverse background cast <\/p>\n<p>-And of course there&#8217;s Xena that had a black Helen of Troy<a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2078508238639890451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OfTs-mJZLD8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2<\/a><br \/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132607836.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#TheOdyssey didn\u2019t need a Trojan Horse to break into the top of Friday\u2019s box office charts. Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d earned $51 million on Friday. Early estimates had the saga grossing $90 million to $100 million by Sunday, but after a stellar opening day, forecasts\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/qNpWfRfM0x \u2014 Variety (@Variety) July 18, 2026 -The controversial film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}