The film <Odyssey> by Christopher Nolan recorded 567,000 advance tickets on its opening day, the 5th.

According to the integrated computer network for box-office admissions, <Odyssey> ranked first as of 7 a.m. that day with an advance reservation rate of 47.1%, ahead of <Spider-Man: Brand New Day> (hereafter <Spider-Man 4>·33.2%).

The number of advance viewers was about 567,000, fewer than <Spider-Man 4>, which had surpassed 900,000 tickets by the morning of its opening day, and <Hope> by director Na Hong-jin, which reached 600,000.

<Odyssey> portrays the 10-year journey of the hero Odysseus (played by Matt Damon), who led the Trojan War to victory, as he returns to his homeland of Ithaca. This is his first new work in three years, following <Oppenheimer> (2023). It is based on the epic poem <The Odyssey> by the ancient Greek poet Homer.

For the first time in film history, the entire runtime was shot on IMAX film cameras.

Alongside Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway, the cast includes Tom Holland in the role of Telemachus, son of Odysseus; Robert Pattinson as Antinous, leader of the suitors; Zendaya as the goddess Athena; and Charlize Theron as Calypso, goddess of the sea.

The film opened in North America on the 17th of last month, and in under a month it has earned more than $900 million worldwide, $900,000,000 (1,200,000,000,000 KRW), emerging as the most talked-about release.

<Odyssey> will now go head-to-head with <Spider-Man 4> for the peak summer box-office season.

<Spider-Man 4>, released on the 29th of last month, surpassed 4 million admissions on day seven and is on a strong box-office run.