Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ has beaten ‘Oppenheimer’ at the box office in just 13 days

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has already beaten his Oscar winning epic Oppenheimer at the box office in just 13 days. Although the latter went on to earn nearly $1billion (£750million) worldwide, it took 595 days to pull in $330million (£246.6million). Now, according to Forbes, The Odyssey will pass that figure just 13 days after its release. The blockbuster has not yet passed Nolan’s The Dark Knight or The Dark Knight Rises’ domestic box office totals, which were $534million (£399million) and $448million (£334.7million), respectively. The director’s new movie is an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem, with Matt Damon starring as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca who embarks on a treacherous journey home after the Trojan War. It also stars Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife Penelope, alongside Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Samantha Morton and Mia Goth. Ahead of its release, the film was hailed by critics across the board and officially became Nolan’s best-reviewed movie of his career. Despite that, a leading classics professor recently slated the...