Culture · From the edition of Jul 18, 2026
✳ Dated SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2026 ✳
98%certain · Polymarket
NOLAN'S 'ODYSSEY' STORMS PAST $115 MILLION
as tracking flips a coin-flip market into a near-lock in a matter of days
NEW YORK, July 19 — Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' rowed past $115 million on opening weekend, an outcome traders had priced at 98 per cent. A week earlier the same bet was a coin flip.
The turn was brutal. Money that once split down the middle piled onto the top tier, and $468,580 changed hands in a single day. Every lower bracket cratered below one per cent.
Doubters simply left the table. Tracking climbed, the wires followed, and the film that gambles on ancient myth cashed out on modern hype. Homer, it seems, still opens big.
Source: Polymarket · 98% probability — View market ↗