‘The Odyssey’ Becomes Christopher Nolan’s Biggest Global Debut of All Time With $264 Million

‘The Odyssey’ Becomes Christopher Nolan’s Biggest Global Debut of All Time With $264 Million

“The Odyssey” is off to an epic start at the box office.

Universal’s action-adventure generated $264.1 million globally over the weekend, including $139.6 million internationally and $124.5 million domestically. It’s a towering debut for a movie that’s R-rated, nearly three hours in length and isn’t part of a major franchise. Of course, “The Odyssey” isn’t original — it’s adapted from Homer’s roughly 3,000-year-old epic poem — but the film’s initial success is a testament to Nolan’s outsized popularity as a filmmaker. He’s long been a box office draw, having directed blockbusters like “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Inception,” “Dunkirk” and “Interstellar.” But Nolan reached new levels of acclaim after 2023’s “Oppenheimer” became a box office behemoth and won the Oscar for best picture.

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Husband of ‘Maple Leaf Menace’ threatened local politicians, mocked Charlie Kirk’s death

Husband of ‘Maple Leaf Menace’ threatened local politicians, mocked Charlie Kirk’s death

The husband of the illegal immigrant from Canada arrested by ICE after allegedly slapping a patriotic teen on a Jersey Shore boardwalk mocked Charlie Kirk’s assassination and threatened local pols, his twisted online posts show.

Matthew Geroni railed against local politicians to his over 142,000 followers in vile rants about gentrification in Ocean Grove, data centers and parking tickets in the June 17 video first reported by Shorenewsnetwork.

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Tate brothers arrested in US as further UK charges take total to 59

Tate brothers arrested in US as further UK charges take total to 59

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in the US after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair.

The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew was being charged with seven further counts of rape, as well as charges relating to sex trafficking and indecent images of a child.

Tristan’s charges include two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.

h/t Patti Jo

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TCW’s 12-year culture war and a not quite final goodbye

TCW’s 12-year culture war and a not quite final goodbye

WHAT difference did we make? Well, we didn’t dent policy. All the destructive postmodernist and neo-Marxist thinking – campus-driven leftism, feminism, transgenderism, scientism, critical race theory, decolonisation and now Islamism – has dug ever deeper into the fabric of society. We didn’t stop this politically driven seepage but we did, I hope, create an unfettered platform for considered dissent. Importantly, we dared to dissent in an era of political correctness and in a culture of complaint.

Such a good site.

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An Ohio woman took in two strangers. Then she saw their ‘wanted’ photos.

An Ohio woman took in two strangers. Then she saw their ‘wanted’ photos.

The two women who drifted into a small Ohio town reminded Adrienne Behrman of her younger self. They were fleeing a toxic living situation in Maryland, they said, when their car broke down and left them stranded in a motel.

The story was a bit vague. But Behrman, 49, had twice been homeless, overcome addiction and knew how hard it could be to share details. She took the women into her home despite friends’ warnings.

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The Odyssey Hullabaloo

The Odyssey Hullabaloo

Acclaimed British filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s (The Dark Knight, Oppenheimer) newest film, The Odyssey, opens this week in the United States.

But controversy has already surrounded Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 2,700-year-old epic poem about Odysseus’s 10-year struggle to return home after the Achaian victory in the decade-long Trojan War.

Some of the film’s actresses have suggested that Nolan is offering a more feminist—and long-overdue—take on the ancient poem. Actress Lupita Nyong’o, in particular, has criticized Homer’s purported sexism.

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Public must pay sex offender’s $50,000 legal tab due to ‘deliberately uncooperative’ Toronto cop, judge rules

Public must pay sex offender’s $50,000 legal tab due to ‘deliberately uncooperative’ Toronto cop, judge rules

A judge has ordered that the public pick up a convicted sex offender’s $50,000 legal tab due to delayed disclosure of records by Toronto police and the “deliberately uncooperative” detective in charge of the case.

Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts took the rare step of ordering costs against the Crown — the provincial government — last month, in the case of a man who, after accusing his partner of cheating, ripped off her pants, attempted to penetrate her digitally and tried to shove her tampon in her mouth while threatening to kill her.

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