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Are movies better when Matt Damon saves others, or when billions of dollars are spent bringing him home? We crunched the numbers to find out. by Mark Hofmeyer | July 20, 2026 TAGGED AS: movies With The Odysseyhitting theaters this week, it’s worth noting that a little over 30 years ago, a 25-year-old Matt Damon, who had just played a guy named Edgar Pudwhacker in the 1995 film Glory Daze, embarked on an epic cinematic odyssey of his own.

At $124.5 million, Christopher Nolan's epic also earned the third-biggest debut of his career and the fourth highest ever for an R-rated film. by Erik Childress | July 19, 2026 TAGGED AS: Box Office, movies, news The Odyssey is often considered one of the foundations of modern-day storytelling. The roughly 3,000-year-old hero’s journey has been told in all forms from its original text to other variations where Matt Damon has to get home.

There plenty of literary classics that find their way to the big screen over and over again as decades pass, but there aren’t many that are as old as Homer’s Odyssey, and there are even fewer that have been adapted with the kind of epic scale and Hollywood budget that Christopher Nolan has utilized to bring The Odyssey to life.