{"id":375711,"date":"2026-08-23T08:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-isnt-out-it-hasnt-passed-harry-potter-at-the-box-office\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:24:13","slug":"christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-isnt-out-it-hasnt-passed-harry-potter-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-isnt-out-it-hasnt-passed-harry-potter-at-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan\u2019s *The Odyssey* isn&#8217;t out: it hasn&#8217;t passed *Harry Potter* at the box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christopher Nolan\u2019s <em>The Odyssey<\/em> hasn\u2019t been released, despite viral reports claiming the still-unreleased film has already pulled in about <strong>$1.35 billion<\/strong> worldwide.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those write-ups claim <em>The Odyssey<\/em> just edged past <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 2<\/em>, landing at roughly <strong>$1.342 billion<\/strong>. They also say it became Nolan\u2019s biggest hit, topped <em>The Dark Knight<\/em> in North America, and even set a new R-rated record ahead of <em>Deadpool &#038; Wolverine<\/em>. The same pieces talk up a massive opening weekend, near-universal acclaim, long-lasting box-office legs, plus digital and physical release plans.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re only catching the headlines, skip this claim. There is no <strong>released<\/strong> Christopher Nolan film called <em>The Odyssey<\/em>, which means none of those box-office numbers, reviews, or home-release details can be checked. The story sounds believable at first because Nolan can turn a movie into an event on name alone, and \u201cHomer adaptation plus billion-dollar haul\u201d has a certain surface logic to it. Still, there\u2019s no actual box-office chart or real-world record showing any of this happened.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the usual proof isn\u2019t there either: no <strong>country-by-country grosses<\/strong>, no audience demographic breakdown, no comparison to the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> marketing machine, and no response from Warner Bros. There\u2019s no legitimate theatrical release record or official box-office listing backing the claim.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey hasn\u2019t been released, despite viral reports claiming the still-unreleased film has already pulled in about $1.35 billion worldwide. Those write-ups claim The Odyssey just edged past Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 2, landing at roughly $1.342 billion. They also say it became Nolan\u2019s biggest hit, topped The Dark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-isnt-out-it-hasnt-passed-harry-potter-at-the-box-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christopher Nolan\u2019s *The Odyssey* isn&#8217;t out: it hasn&#8217;t passed *Harry Potter* at the box office&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9341,"featured_media":375710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-375711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375712,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375711\/revisions\/375712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375711"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=375711"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=375711"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=375711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}