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Trailing Spidey by some distance was Christopher Nolan's epic "The Odyssey" which brought in $23.2 million domestically for Universal in its fifth weekend on screen.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

I told him I had already seen Nolan’s adaptation of the Homerian epic twice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

But he didn’t even begin to solve the larger problem: “House of the Dragon” is an epic that forgot to create any sort of hero.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

The S&P 500 has enjoyed an epic rally over the past five days — but the advance may be more mechanical and driven by options positioning, rather than by an improvement in investors’ fundamental outlook.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

But even in such an epic struggle, small details and seemingly ordinary people play pivotal roles, shoving events in one direction or another.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Damon has explained the decline of mid-sized movies and outsized epics in other venues.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

Adapting Homer’s ancient Greek saga, Nolan has created an epic to end all epics: the tale of a king struggling to return home after years away at war.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

That movie appeared 20 years ago, longer than the gap between the second and third Godfather epics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The play will be "a rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise inspired by the grand swashbuckling epics of stage and screen", and will reach the stage in early 2027, the announcement said.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

The novelist would later win the Nobel Prize, but he was already famous for his classic Southern epics like The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein