-43% in sales, but hey I guess to you that -43% is a good thing. Who is buying into the propaganda now? Honestly this stuff is not hard to look up.
Box office performance domestic
Jul 17-19 $123.50M
Jul 24-26 $90.02M -27%
Jul 31-Aug 2 $51.05M -43%
At $300 mil profit, record sales in 2 weeks, I don’t see failure here.
If I were Nolan, I’d be home happy to take time off. Maybe think about what to do next
People who believe he is owned by the audio don’t know he walked away from Warner brothers and don’t think about $300 million in profits in 2 weeks makes Nolan someone no studio can say no to.
That is actually funny. Very funny.
The irony of your post, Skwor, is that a 27% drop isn’t just “not a failure”. In reality, it’s a record-breaking success.
For a massive blockbuster, a second-weekend drop that small is practically unheard of, and following it up with just a 43% drop against the opening of Spider-Man Brand New Day shows insane staying power.
I can understand why many of us might not have wanted the movie to succeed. But trying to frame one of the most impressive box-office holds in history as a negative shows a fundamental lack of understanding. It’s exactly like the moving goalposts we are seeing on its break-even number: it started at a realistic $625M, magically went to $900M, then $1.1B, and some YouTubers even claimed $1.3B before quietly retracting it. I would not be surprised if someone said it needs $2b to break even. ;^)
It is perfectly fine to want a movie to fail. On my end, I was very happy when Snow White bombed, when The Marvels flopped, and when Madamme Web cratered.
However, that doesn’t mean people get to wishcast, invent their own numbers, or (not you, but some of the YouTubers) outright lie. It’s bad when Liberals do it, and it is equally bad when Conservatives do it.
We are OFTEN correct, but we aren’t ALWAYS correct. This is one of those cases, as the Odyssey is a box office success (and saying ‘but Spiderman did better’ is like calling Jeff Bezos ‘poor’ because Elon Musk is wealthier. It just comes across as biased and funny).
Hollywood will make other movies that will fail. Some will massively fail.
Just not the Odyssey. It will do well (very well), has already done well without adding China numbers (it premiers in China this Friday and in Japan in September), and will likely win an Oscar or three. Nolan has obviously done well for himself, and it is likely he will do the Iliad at some point, and the Iliad will also do well. Nolan has great ability in putting butts in seats.
The Odyssey is successful. We will have to wait for Hollywood to make a BatGirl or SpiderWoman or She-Ra flick, which they eventually will, and that will flop. But not the Odyssey.