Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" opened powerfully in North America, taking $51 million on its first day from 3,919 screens, the biggest opening-day haul of his career. The strong debut pushed weekend forecasts up to as much as $120 million, which would make it Nolan's biggest opening since "The Dark Knight Rises" in 2012 and place it among 2026's top-grossing releases alongside "Toy Story 5" and "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie".

The $250 million epic, based on Homer's ancient Greek poem, stars Matt Damon as Odysseus alongside an ensemble including Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Charlize Theron and Robert Pattinson. Its opening day alone already exceeded the entire opening weekend of Nolan's "Interstellar" ($47.5 million), and projections put it ahead of the opening weekend of his Oscar-winning "Oppenheimer" ($82 million), which went on to gross $975 million. Elsewhere in the chart, Disney's "Moana" remake struggled badly in its second weekend, adding just $5.5 million and facing a projected 56% drop that could see it lose around $100 million for the studio, while "Minions & Monsters" held a distant third place with $4.3 million.