'Odyssey' surpasses 500,000 viewers two days after release... Dominates box office at number one

Christopher Nolan’s new film ″Odyssey″ continues its box office success by maintaining the number one spot two days after its release. According to the Korea Film Council’s integrated computer network, ″Odyssey″ attracted 245,794 viewers on the 6th and 246,078 viewers on the 7th, consecutively topping the box office. The cumulative audience count was 539,514 as of the 6th and 541,156 as of the 7th. On its opening day, it recorded 291,008 viewers, surpassing the domestic opening scores of Nolan’s previous works ″Tenet,″ ″Inception,″ ″The Dark Knight,″ ″Dunkirk,″ and ″Interstellar.″ ″Odyssey″ depicts the 10-year journey of the hero Odysseus (played by Matt Damon), who led the Trojan War to victory, as he tries to return to his wife Penelope (played by Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (played by Tom Holland). The film portrays Odysseus’s hardships returning home after winning the war with the ″Trojan Horse.″ Audience reactions have also been positive. As of 8 a.m. on the 7th, the Naver real viewer rating was 9.26, and the netizen rating was 9.07. The CGV Golden Egg Index was 97%, Lotte Cinema rating 9.6, and Megabox rating 9.3, showing high satisfaction across major theaters and portals. Additionally, as of 8:46 a.m. on the 7th, real-time ticket reservations surpassed 680,000. Notably, ″Odyssey″ attracted attention as the first film in history to be shot entirely with IMAX film cameras. It captures vast natural landscapes and large-scale battle scenes on an overwhelming screen, driving box office enthusiasm centered on special theaters. When reservations opened on July 9, a month before release, the CGV website and app experienced access delays, and all seats for major showtimes at ″Yong IMAX″ (CGV Yongsan I’Park Mall IMAX) were sold out. Meanwhile, ″Spider-Man: Brand New Day″ (directed by Destin Daniel Cretton) attracted 237,915 viewers, ranking second. The cumulative audience count was 4,647,267. ″Spider-Man: Brand New Day″ is a new story about Peter Parker (played by Tom Holland) following ″Spider-Man: No Way Home.″ The domestic animation ″Love’s Hatchuping: Legend of the Whale Jewel″ (directed by Kim Soo-hoon) drew 43,740 viewers, ranking third. ″Hope″ (directed by Na Hong-jin) ranked fourth with 27,187 viewers, and ″Minions & Monsters″ (directed by Pierre Coffin) ranked fifth with 4,644 viewers.