It has been suggested in the past that Christopher Nolanexpects no friendly fire before and after the release of his movies. These details emerged when Nolan famously severed ties with Warner Bros. and signed a deal with Universal to release Oppenheimer. The partnership began with a bang, as Oppenheimer wildly exceeded box-office projections and earned the coveted Best Picture honor at the Oscars. It also won Nolan his first-ever Best Director Academy Award. Unsurprisingly, he stuck with Universal for the release of The Odyssey, which has emerged as his highest-grossing film, with nearly $1.8 billion worldwide. However, Universal released another summer tentpole directed by an A-lister just six weeks before The Odyssey. The movie in question didn’t live up to expectations, and ultimately wasn’t a factor when The Odyssey debuted in mid-July.
But it recently premiered on streaming, and has gotten off to an excellent start. The film was marketed as a major return to roots for Steven Spielberg, who had been struggling with back-to-back box-office underperformers in the last few years. This was meant to be his box-office comeback. Much of the marketing put Spielberg’s name front-and-center, reminding audiences of his legendary status, particularly when it comes to the sci-fi genre. However, while the reviews were mostly positive, there was some concern surrounding an early influencer-driven publicity drive. In the end, the movie barely broke even at the box office, and will have to find its audience on streaming.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
Here’s How Much the Sci-Fi Tentpole Grossed at the Box Office
We’re talking, of course, about Disclosure Day. Starring Emily Blunt as a newscaster who has a close encounter and is given the responsibility of revealing the existence of aliens to the world, the movie grossed around $245 million worldwide against a reported budget of $115 million. It fell drastically short of Spielberg’s other sci-fi movies in the last couple of decades — Ready Player One, War of the Worlds, and Minority Report, and grossed roughly the same as A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Also featuring Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo, and Colin Firth, the movie now holds a “Certified Fresh” 79% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. According to FlixPatrol, Disclosure Day has now spent a week at the number-one spot on Peacock’s domestic viewership list. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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