Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey earned $87 million in its second North American weekend, down 30% but still first place. More than half came from IMAX. Internationally, the film has already earned $639 million.
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Amid the bulletin's string of crises, NPR correspondent Caden Mills brings a story of quiet, determined hope. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a 12-year-old named Holden Hoy has combined two passions — robotics and his Ojibwe heritage — into a small robot that teaches vocabulary in his endangered ancestral language. Ask it 'How do you say bear in Ojibwe?' and it answers: 'Makwa means bear.' The robot resembles a miniature R2-D2, but decorated in Native American woodland florals. Hoy's motivation is as clear-eyed as it is moving: 'Generation after generation is based around this culture. The language is the culture.' In a world where Indigenous languages are disappearing faster than they can be documented, one boy with a soldering iron is trying to tip the balance [1] — Holden Hoy "Holden Hoy is 12, lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and built a robot that teaches the Ojibwe language. He says it best: 'The language i…" 03:31 .
Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey held first place at the North American box office with $87 million in its second weekend, down 30% from opening.
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