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David Krumholtz Says He’s Retiring from Acting in Shock Social Post

David Krumholtz Says He’s Retiring from Acting in Shock Social Post

He’s amassed more than 140 credits on an enviable resumé that dates back to the early 1990s, but David Krumholtz seems ready to throw in the towel on his Hollywood career. In a shocking announcement posted (and later deleted) on social media, Krumholtz said he’s “frustrated, fed up, fried” with the business, so much so that he already sent an email to declare it done. Once the decision was made, Krumholtz felt a “huge wave of relief” wash over him. “I kinda sorta put my acting career on hold the other day. It’s been something I’ve been petrified to do for years. Specifically, the fear was that I’d go broke and not be able to handle being out of the game. But I sent the definitive email,” he shared on Threads. “And gotta say, a huge wave of relief washed over me. Not sure what I’m going to do for money instead, or how I’m going to do it, but I just removed a humongous burden, one that I truly didn’t fathom the weight of …

Why Christopher Nolan’s Movie Had Huge Box Office Opening

Why Christopher Nolan’s Movie Had Huge Box Office Opening

Christopher Nolan‘s box office journey with The Odyssey has gotten off to an eye-opening start. If there were any questions regarding whether a nearly three-hour, R-rated adaptation of a 2,700-year-old Greek poem — not to mention a movie that initially got caught up in the culture wars — would find success, those concerns were swiftly vanquished. In landing 2026’s biggest live-action opening weekend, The Odyssey brought home $123.5 million domestically with a global launch of $263.7 million, with the latter marking the accomplished filmmaker’s highest-grossing worldwide opening ever. It’s not news that Nolan, hot off his first best director Oscar for 2023’s Oppenheimer, has become a brand unto himself as he continues his run as one of Hollywood’s most sure-thing directors. But the fact that half of the film’s audiences were between the ages of 18 and 34 confirmed that he has captured the excitement of Gen Z and younger millennial filmgoers as much as that of older viewers who might typically be more drawn to an adaptation of classic literature. Audiences cited Nolan as …

Christopher Nolan on The Odyssey Horror Scenes, Making it a Dog Movie

Christopher Nolan on The Odyssey Horror Scenes, Making it a Dog Movie

If anyone has earned the audience’s trust, it’s Christopher Nolan.  For over 25 years, the British-American filmmaker has consistently delivered indelible visual spectacle and stimulating food for thought. Fresh off of Oppenheimer’s seven-Oscar triumph (including best picture and best director), Nolan’s thirteenth film, The Odyssey — the first narrative feature shot entirely in IMAX — is no exception to his penchant for thought-provoking blockbusters. Following near-universal acclaim from critics and moviegoers alike, Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek poem — which chronicles the Greek hero Odysseus (Matt Damon) on his perilous decade-long journey home after the Trojan War — has debuted to $264 million at the worldwide box office, setting the auteur’s global opening weekend record and bolstering an existing career cume that exceeds $6.2 billion. Domestically, it notched $124 million, Nolan’s top opening outside of the Batman franchise, with 23.8 percent of that sum coming from IMAX screens. After being introduced to The Odyssey during a grade school play, Nolan nearly brought Homer’s work to the screen during his short stint developing 2004’s Troy. …

‘The Odyssey’ review: ‘Oppenheimer’ through an ancient lens

‘The Odyssey’ review: ‘Oppenheimer’ through an ancient lens

Tell me, Christopher Nolan, when did it first rosy-fingered dawn on you that your favorite type of protagonist — a tormented sinner-hero — was a specialty of the ancient Greeks? Millennia before Matthew McConaughey’s astronaut sobbed over abandoning his family and Cillian Murphy’s Robert Oppenheimer gasped that he had become the destroyer of worlds, the Greeks spun cautionary legends about Odysseus, the Trojan War tactician who outsmarted his own plan to sail smoothly home. Nolan refuses to tremble before the canon. Grabbing mighty scissors, he cuts and rejiggers Homer and a bit of Virgil to transform these classical texts into his type of tale: one fixated on memory, self-identity, destructive genius and the slippage of time. As ever, it’s light on sex, heavy on wine-dark angst. Once you endure its opening stretch — an expositional barrage with the pace of an obnoxious cop show — “The Odyssey” ascends as a monument to movie craft with shuddering ships, rough-hewn landscapes and practical monsters who snatch and grab men at random from above like giant skill cranes. …