Christopher Nolan gave theater house owners an exhilarating glimpse of “The Odyssey” Wednesday night at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. His adaptation of Homer’s epic starring Matt Damon as Odysseus is without doubt one of the most hotly anticipated of the 12 months, arriving in theaters on July 17.
“‘The Odyssey’ is a story that has fascinated generation after generation for 3,000 years,” Nolan mentioned from the stage. “It’s not a story, it’s the story.”
He launched an prolonged clip from the movie exhibiting the arrival of the Trojan Horse and the extraordinary nighttime infiltration of town of Troy. Or, as Jon Bernthal’s Menelaus calls it, “the story of the horse.”
“The Odyssey” is the primary movement image shot solely on IMAX movie, due to the event of latest cameras that aren’t fairly so noisy, fulfilling a dream Nolan mentioned he is had since he was 16.
The movie boasts an enormous ensemble with Anne Hathaway enjoying Odysseus’s spouse Penelope, Tom Holland as their son Telemachus, Zendaya because the goddess Athena and Robert Pattinson as Antinous, one in all Penelope’s suitors. Nolan mentioned it will be faster to say who isn’t in “The Odyssey,” Nolan’s first characteristic since “Oppenheimer,” which received finest image and finest director on the Oscars in 2024.
“It’s always been a film, first and foremost, about this idea of family, this idea of homecoming,” Nolan mentioned, including that it’s nearly achieved.
The footage was proven as a part of the Universal Pictures presentation to exhibitors the place the studio additionally has Steven Spielberg’s unique science fiction movie “Disclosure Day” coming to theaters this summer time.
“I’m just really glad not to be following Steven Spielberg,” Nolan mentioned.
Snoop Dogg kicked off the presentation performing “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and asserting that he’s partnered with Universal “to finally tell my story.” Craig Brewer will direct and it’s aiming to be in theaters subsequent 12 months.
“My movie will be rated R, you can believe that,” he mentioned. “So kids, get your parents’ permission.”
Universal at present has the 12 months’s greatest box-office hit in theaters with “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” which has solely been out for 15 days and has already remodeled $631 million worldwide. It is on its strategy to being the 12 months’s first billion dollar film, Donna Langley, the NBC Universal Entertainment chairperson, mentioned. Last month the studio additionally pledged to increase the unique theatrical window for all its motion pictures to 45 days beginning in 2027.
“We’ve always been a theatrical first studio,” Langley mentioned.
For many years the usual unique window was 90 days in theaters, however the pandemic and the rise of streaming led to drastic shifts from all the most important studios. Universal experimented with 17-day home windows throughout the pandemic period, in addition to some day-and-date releases, however for its greatest motion pictures they’d already settled into the 45-day mannequin.
It’s an essential assure for theater house owners and operators with the field workplace nonetheless at a 20% deficit from its pre-pandemic highs. Disney, in contrast, has a 60-day window, the longest within the business however nonetheless fairly depleted from the outdated 90-day norm.
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