Hollywood’s ‘memory moment’: How Spider-Man vs. The Odyssey is driving the box office’s best summer since the pandemic

On the Sunday night of The Odyssey‘s opening weekend, Paul Dergarabedian managed to get tickets to a 70mm showing at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre—a packed house, the format filmmaker Christopher Nolan had insisted the film be seen in. Before the feature, a title card appeared on screen: Denis Villeneuve, thanking Nolan for letting the audience see four minutes of exclusive footage for the next anticipated blockbuster: December’s Dune: Part Three.
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On the Sunday night of The Odyssey‘s opening weekend, Paul Dergarabedian managed to get tickets to a 70mm showing at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre—a packed house, the format filmmaker Christopher Nolan had insisted the film be seen in. Before the feature, a title card appeared on screen: Denis Villeneuve, thanking Nolan for letting the audience see four minutes of exclusive footage for the next anticipated blockbuster: December’s Dune: Part Three. “The audience erupted,” Dergarabedian recalled. “That was mind-blowing.” He’d already seen The Odyssey on its first showing, the Thursday prior, but saw it again that Sunday.
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- On the Sunday night of The Odyssey‘s opening weekend, Paul Dergarabedian managed to get tickets to a 70mm showing at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre—a packed house, the format filmmaker Christopher Nolan had insisted the film be seen in. Before the feature, a title card appeared on screen: Denis Villeneuve, thanking Nolan for letting the audience see four minutes of exclusive footage for the next anticipated blockbuster: December’s Dune: Part Three.
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