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The Odyssey Box Office Tracking Comes In at $80M to $100M, Ahead of Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is tracking for an $80 million to $100 million domestic opening when it hits theaters July 17, putting Universal’s take on Homer slightly ahead of where Oppenheimer was at the same point before release. The range is wide for a reason. Nolan openings are tough to call. Oppenheimer was tracking at…
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Supergirl Flies Low With $40M Opening, Loses Weekend To Toy Story 5
The verdict is in, and it’s the exact call I’ve made for weeks. Supergirl is opening at the low end of its range — around $40 million — and losing the No. 1 spot in its own debut frame to the second weekend of Toy Story 5. Per Deadline, Supergirl is tracking toward a $40…
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The Odyssey: How Nolan Built a Real Cyclops With a Cave, Bees, and 40 Sheep
Christopher Nolan has revealed new details about how he brought one of The Odyssey’s most iconic monsters to life: the Cyclops Polyphemus, the one-eyed giant who traps Odysseus and his men in a cave. Speaking to Empire as part of its August 2026 cover feature, Nolan explained that the Cyclops sequence was built around a…
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Daredevil: Born Again Season 3 Brings Back Elektra As Netflix Roster Reassembles
Another Netflix-era Daredevil star is back for Daredevil: Born Again Season 3. New set photos and video have hit social media and confirm that Elodie Yung is reprising her role as Elektra Natchios for the upcoming season, adding yet another familiar face to a cast that is increasingly looking like a full reunion of Marvel’s…
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X-Men ’97 Season 2 Episode Titles and Release Schedule Revealed
With less than a week to go, Marvel has dropped the full X-Men ’97 Season 2 lineup — every episode title and release date — and it lays out exactly how the Apocalypse arc rolls out. The season opens with a three-episode premiere on July 1, then shifts to one new episode a week, wrapping…
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Elliot Page’s Odyssey Role Reportedly Revealed as Sinon, Not Achilles
After months of speculation that ran from Achilles to Elpenor, Elliot Page’s role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has reportedly been revealed, and it is neither of the characters fans had guessed. According to a leaked Hungarian voice cast list, Page is playing Sinon, a figure who does not appear in Homer’s Odyssey at all.…
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Supergirl Opens To $7.8M Domestic Previews
UPDATE: The Supergirl box office is looking like a $40M opening. Supergirl‘s box office run has begun, and the official numbers confirm a soft start, in line with weeks of sliding projections. Per Deadline, Supergirl opened to $13 million in its global first day, a number not far off the $12 million first day of…
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A Jason Momoa Lobo Scene Was Added To Supergirl — Just Like We First Reported
Back in July 2025, we reported an exclusive: Warner Bros. was expanding Jason Momoa’s Lobo role in Supergirl after the actor wowed executives. Now a critic who saw an earlier cut of the film has confirmed it, a Lobo scene was, in fact, added to the theatrical version. Chris Gore Confirms The Added Scene Speaking…
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Supergirl Shocker: Kara Is The Real ‘Superman’
One of the most divisive choices in James Gunn’s Superman last year was what he did with Jor-El. Supergirl doesn’t walk it back. It doubles down, and in the process, it hands Kara Zor-El the heroic message that Gunn denied Clark Kent. Warning: Full spoilers for Supergirl follow. The Jor-El Change, Explained For decades, the…
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The Odyssey Skips Influencer Screenings as Hollywood’s Early Buzz Machine Shows Cracks
Universal has decided to skip influencer screenings for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, going straight to professional critics after the film’s London premiere on July 6, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed on Wednesday. The move breaks from the now-standard industry practice of holding “word-of-mouth screenings” for influencers and fan-site bloggers before critics get access, a strategy designed…
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Christopher Nolan Teases Odyssey’s Most Brutal Battle as Empire Reveals Four Covers
Empire Magazine has unveiled its August 2026 issue dedicated to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, featuring four collectible covers, new behind-the-scenes images, and interviews with the director and cast ahead of the film’s July 17 release. The issue includes a feature built from two days on set with Nolan, producer Emma Thomas, and stars Matt Damon,…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Gets Little Caesars Webberoni Pizza And Commercial
Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s marketing blitz has a new partner, and it comes with pizza, posters, a brand-new commercial, and a real-life recreation of Peter Parker’s apartment. Little Caesars is teaming with Sony Pictures for the July 31 release, and the centerpiece is a Spider-Man-themed “Webberoni” pizza. Watch The Spider-Man: Brand New Day Little Caesars…
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Absolute Batman Animated Series Confirmed, Joker Anime Series In The Works
It’s official. The Absolute Batman adaptation that has been rumored is real, and it landed at Annecy rather than at San Diego Comic-Con. DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation used their first joint presentation at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Thursday to confirm that Scott Snyder’s Absolute Batman is becoming an adult animated…
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Batman Writer Andrew Farago Arrested Over Hidden Bathroom Camera Involving Children
Andrew Farago, longtime curator of San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum and a well-known pop culture author who also wrote for Batman and The Comics Journal, was arrested earlier this month on 20 counts of invasion of privacy after allegedly hiding a phone to record guests in his bathroom during a birthday party, according to Berkeley…
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BBC Doubles Down On Woke Doctor Who: ‘Circuit Breaker’ Launches With Jo Martin’s Fugitive Doctor
Even as the show’s television future hangs in the balance and the series was recently canceled on Disney+ due to poor ratings, the BBC is launching a sprawling new multi-platform Doctor Who story event with Circuit Breaker. Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker launches today, June 25, and runs through September across comics, audio, books, gaming, and…
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Supergirl Villain Revives James Gunn’s Old Marvel Problem
If there’s one criticism in the Supergirl reactions and reviews that should worry DC, it isn’t “messy” or “uneven.” It’s the one that keeps coming up about the villain: bland. Because in the superhero business, a forgettable villain isn’t a small problem, it’s often the problem. Robert Downey Jr. just made that point himself. As…
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Warner Bros. Quietly Lowers The Bar For A Supergirl ‘Win’
UPDATE: Those lowered expectations look well-founded, with soft opening estimates now circulating pegging Supergirl’s previews at around $8.25 million and its opening weekend near $40 million. Warner Bros. is already lowering expectations for Supergirl, with insiders now framing anything above $300 million worldwide as a “win.” But that number is less than half of Superman’s $618 million total…
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GTA 6 Price Confirmed: $80 Standard, $100 Ultimate — and No Disc in the Box
The question that’s hung over Grand Theft Auto VI for years finally has an answer. Rockstar Games has confirmed that GTA 6 will cost $79.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition, settling the price just hours before pre-orders open June 25 at midnight local time on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series…
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Ghostbusters: Night Shift First Look & 2027 Netflix Details
Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation pulled the sheet off Ghostbusters: Night Shift at the Annecy animation festival on Wednesday, dropping the first key art for the 2027 series and a slightly clearer picture of what the next official Ghostbusters project actually is. Here’s the part the press release won’t underline for you: it’s a cartoon.…
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New James Bond: August Auditions Locked as Elordi, Turner, Dickinson Fit Villeneuve’s ‘Prototype’
The hunt for the next James Bond finally has something resembling a date on the calendar, sort of. Per Deadline, director Denis Villeneuve has started personally phoning actors to tell them they’ve made it through to the next round of screen tests, which Amazon MGM is now lining up for August. What the studio still…