'Odyssey' Ends Week 1; 'Motor City', 'Her Private Hell'

Key Points:

• Universal’s Christopher Nolan film The Odyssey earned $17.6 million on Thursday with only a 3% drop from Wednesday, closing its first week at the North American box office with $199.3 million across 3,919 theaters.
• The Odyssey ranks third among Nolan’s first-week box office performances, behind The Dark Knight ($238.6M) and The Dark Knight Rises ($225M), and ahead of Oppenheimer ($127.8M) and Inception ($100.1M), with a strong second weekend projected between $61M-$74M.
• Specialty films are offering counterprogramming this weekend, including the Broadway live capture Hadestown, which made $1.5 million in previews and is expected to open between $8M-$10M, aiming to be the second-highest Broadway capture after Disney’s Hamilton.
• IFC’s Motor City, a dialogue-less crime noir starring Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, and Ben Foster, earned $475,000 in previews and holds a 65% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with hopes for strong walk-up audience turnout.
• Neon’s Her Private Hell, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, grossed $125,000 in previews; despite a 45% critic score, Refn is actively promoting the film with Q&As and screenings following its Cannes premiere.