{"id":12372,"date":"2025-07-26T15:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12372"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:51:31","slug":"how-the-odyssey-is-already-gunning-to-be-2026s-biggest-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12372","title":{"rendered":"How The Odyssey is already gunning to be 2026&#8217;s biggest film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Marketing campaigns for summer blockbusters have traditionally kicked in around six months before release. But one film not playing by these rules is Christopher Nolan&#8217;s The Odyssey, his much-discussed take on Homer&#8217;s epic, starring Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Lupita Nyong&#8217;o and many more. Earlier this month, more than a year in advance of its 17 July general release date, a teaser trailer started showing in cinemas. And then on 17 July itself, in an unprecedented move, tickets went on sale for opening weekend screenings in Imax 70mm \u2013 Nolan&#8217;s preferred format for all his films. Less than a day after those tickets were made available, most of them were sold out, and scalpers were reselling them for upwards of $200 (\u00a3148).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marketing campaigns for summer blockbusters have traditionally kicked in around six months before release. But one film not playing by these rules is Christopher Nolan&#8217;s The Odyssey, his much-discussed take on Homer&#8217;s epic, starring Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Lupita Nyong&#8217;o and many more. Earlier this month, more than a year in advance of its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5946,752,1171,5945,2488],"class_list":{"0":"post-12372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-2026s","9":"tag-biggest","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-gunning","12":"tag-odyssey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}