‘The Odyssey’ is on track to surpass 10 million viewers this weekend

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is approaching the 10-million-admission milestone in South Korea after ruling the box office for 30 consecutive days.

The film drew 98,412 viewers on the third day of the month, according to the Korean Film Council, taking its cumulative audience to about 9.32 million. It opened on Aug. 5 and remained the country’s top film through the latest tally.

The movie had roughly 410,000 advance bookings as of 7 a.m. on the fourth day of the month. Although attendance slowed somewhat, the film needed about 680,000 more viewers to reach 10 million. It drew 1.05 million viewers over the previous weekend.

Crossing the threshold would make “The Odyssey” the year’s second South Korean film to attract more than 10 million viewers, after “The Man Who Lives with the King,” which recorded 16.91 million. It would also become Nolan’s second film to reach the mark, following “Interstellar,” which drew 10.38 million viewers in 2014.

Nolan’s 13th feature reinterprets Homer’s epic “The Odyssey.” Matt Damon plays Odysseus, with Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife Penelope. Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron also appear. The film had generated about $1.557 billion worldwide by the second day, against a reported production budget of around $250 million.