Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey will ride its Trojan Horse into 760 cinemas across the UK and Ireland for Universal as this weekend’s widest release.
Venues screening The Odyssey this weekend include three IMAX 70mm locations, seven 70mm locations and 21 35mm locations.
It marks Nolan’s second collaboration with Universal Studios after 2023 Oscar winner Oppenheimer, which debuted with £10.9m from 662 locations – the second-biggest launch for the director, behind The Dark Knight Rises at £14.3 m in 2012.
Nolan’s other top openings include Dunkirk (£10.1m), Inception (£5.9m) and Interstellar (£5.4m).
Based on Homer’s epic poem of love and war, The Odyssey stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, John Leguizamo, Samantha Morton and Mia Goth.
The film follows the Greek king Odysseus who, after fighting a 10-year-long Trojan war, must voyage across the ocean while encountering dangerous mythological creatures to reunite with his wife and son in Ithaca.
Nolan’s 2008 superhero thriller The Dark Knight marked the first Hollywood feature film to have scenes shot in IMAX. Now, 28 years later, The Odyssey will be released as the first film in history to be shot entirely on IMAX cameras.
Quiet weekend elsewhere
Universal will see four key holdovers alongside the release of its latest action-epic, including Disclosure Day, Obsession, Minions & Monsters and Michael. The latter has passed £53m in its 12th weekend.
It is a quiet weekend for further openings this weekend, with Park Circus’s re-release of Aardman shorts A Close Shave and A Matter Of Loaf And Death opening in 111 venues.
Marc Isaacs’ Synthetic Sincerity, a humorous and philosophical documentary on the academic studies of AI’s authenticity, is releasing in three venues for Verve Pictures.
A Year In London will play for Miracle Comms/Dazzler at one site this weekend. Flaminia Graziadiei’s romance sees Olivia (Nina Pons), a fashion student from Italy, fall in love with her London-based tutor Nina (Melanie Liburd).
Further key holdovers include Studiocanal’s supernatural horror Evil Dead Burn and Disney’s live-action Moana.
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