Christopher Nolan is following his Oscar-winning “Oppenheimer” with a true epic: Homer’s “The Odyssey.” It will open in theaters on July 17, 2026, Universal Pictures said Monday. Details remain scarce, but the studio teased that it will be a “mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX technology.” It will also be the first time that an adaptation of Homer’s saga will play on IMAX film screens. Nolan has been an IMAX enthusiast for years, going back to “The Dark Knight,” and has made his last three films exclusively using large format film and the highest resolution film cameras. For “Oppenheimer,” the first black-and-white IMAX film stock was developed. Nolan hasn’t said specifically what the new technology for “The Odyssey” will be, but earlier this month he told The Associated Press that they’re in an intensive testing phase with IMAX to prepare for the new production. “They have an incredible engineering staff, really brilliant minds doing extraordinary work,” Nolan said. “It’s wonderful to see innovation in the celluloid film arena still happening and happening at the highest level possible.” “The Odyssey” will be Nolan’s second collaboration with Universal Pictures following “Oppenheimer,” which earned nearly $1 billion at the box office and won the filmmaker his first Oscars, including for best director and best picture . Rumors about his next project have been swirling ever since, with near-daily speculations about plot — none of which turned out to be true — and casting. While there are many reports about actors joining the ensemble, none has been officially confirmed by the studio.
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No one left this year’s United Nations climate conference, known as , happy. Developed countries’ agreement to help raise hundreds of billions of dollars in annual finance for climate efforts in the Global South fell short of demands. A lack of language reaffirming the need to cut fossil fuel emissions angered countries warning of the need for urgent action. And delegates were deeply divided on new rules designed to spur carbon markets. The 5:30 a.m. Baku finishing time on Sunday, after multiple days of round-the-clock negotiating, also didn’t help. “We are extremely hurt,” said Chandni Raina, a negotiator for India, in a after the finance agreement was gavelled in. “The Global South is being pushed to transit to no-carbon pathways even at the cost of our growth.” But, despite the many complaints, it should not be minimized that in the middle of increased populist backlash and rising isolationist sentiment, countries still left the host city of Baku, Azerbaijan, with a deal. Indeed, with the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president casting a pall on negotiations just days before the start of the talks, they could have easily ended in collapse. “We are living in a time of truly challenging geopolitics, and we should simply not have the illusion that it will soon get better,” said Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union’s commissioner for climate action, at the closing session. “Seeing a deal truly is exceptional.” So why didn’t the talks collapse? At points, it felt like they might have, but in the end negotiators assessed that an imperfect deal is better than no deal. Finance has long lingered as a critical tension in climate talks with developing countries arguing that wealthier countries owe them for the damage that they have caused with their historic emissions. The U.S. alone is despite being home to around 4% of the world’s population. In the end, the crux of the finance deal amounts to a commitment for developed countries to help raise $300 billion in annual climate finance for developing countries by 2035 from public sources, namely governments and development banks. While that’s far short of the more than $1 trillion annually in public money demanded by many developing countries, it’s a significant increase from the $100 billion commitment agreed to in 2009 that expires next year. In the face of that expiration as well as the increasing costs of climate change, developing countries insisted that the negotiators urgently replace the $100 billion figure. In the years ahead, developing countries will certainly keep track of whether their wealthier counterparts are meeting the pledge—and hold their feet to the fire if and when they don’t. For developed countries, the money . Because the effects of climate change are felt worldwide, cutting emissions in the Global South helps protect wealthy countries, too, from the coming climate extremes. And those investments also help avoid the climate-linked crises that spill over borders—think of the already occurring in part because of environmental shocks. (It’s also worth noting that much of the money will be provided as loans and investments that earn a return rather than as free grant money.) Now the key question is whether those rich nations will follow through. It’s worth being cleareyed: the road ahead is a steep one. In Europe, political pressure has led governments to slash international development money. Even if far-right parties are held at bay in countries like Germany and France, governments will face continued pressure to avoid such spending for political reasons. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. picture is even bleaker. The country has climate finance even under supportive presidents thanks to paralysis in Congress. Trump should be expected to do what he can to slash overseas development money even further. And then there’s the private sector question. The COP29 finance decision—known formally as the New Collective Quantified Goal—includes a call for $1.3 trillion in annual finance by 2035 from “all actors.” To get there would mean that the $300 billion in public money would be supplemented by private sector investment as well as capital from countries like China that don’t technically count as developed countries in the U.N. framework but still have considerable wealth. To get private sector money moving will require financial innovation and new mechanisms that reduce the risk for private investors. Such mechanisms were a hot topic in Baku—and indeed they have been frequently discussed in international climate forums in recent years. In an ideal world, government and philanthropic money could be used to reduce the risk of climate adaptation and mitigation projects, thereby allowing money to flow from private sector investors. But, despite all the talk, many in the climate world remain skeptical. Private sector investors simply don’t need to look to the Global South to earn a return, leaving them with limited incentives to engage. It is certainly true that, no matter the outcome in Baku, the barriers to unlocking trillions in investment remains tough. But, at the very least, Baku gives the world a new North Star. The year 2035 is both very close and very far. When we get there, expect countries to be complaining—or celebrating—how the world responded to the targets set in Baku.
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Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) went off on United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou during a hearing this week after she suggested she has no regrets about her role in the Biden administration’s record-breaking illegal immigration wave to the United States. During the immigration subcommittee hearing, Tiffany asked Jaddou, “Do you have any regrets over what’s happened in the last four years with the open borders policies and all its different ways here in America?” Jaddou, whose agency has overseen mass approval of work permits for newly released migrants, suggested she has no regrets about her tenure at USCIS, which will end in late January 2021 once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. “I am proud of the efforts that this administration has made with regards to its efforts at the southwest border,” Jaddou told Tiffany. Tiffany responded, You have been part of the largest human trafficking operation since slavery in the United States of America. It is ... the people of the United States voted for change on November 5 and we can only pray that it happens soon. [Emphasis added] Indeed, in fewer than four years, the Biden administration has managed the arrival of nearly 8 million migrants at the nation’s southern border. As a result, the Mexican drug cartels have profited anywhere from $4 billion to $12 billion just from smuggling migrants across the border. A congressional report from September found that about 85 percent of migrants arriving at the border under President Joe Biden have been subsequently released into the United States interior. Millions of those migrants have gone on to secure work permits as the Biden administration has transformed USCIS into a rubber-stamp agency offering immigration benefits at a rapid pace. USCIS, in particular, has helped manage Biden’s parole pipeline whereby almost 1.5 million migrants have been allowed to enter the U.S. interior despite having no immigration status and no legal basis to be in the country. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
The search for the flight that vanished in March 2014 is set to begin again. ’s government said it had reached a deal with a U.S. company, Ocean Infinity, which will be paid $70 million only if it recovers a significant portion of flight ’s wreckage, to the Associated Press. “The proposed new search area, identified by Ocean Infinity, is based on the latest information and data analyses conducted by experts and researchers,” the country’s transport minister, Anthony Loke, said in a statement, the AP reported. “The company’s proposal is credible.” The disappeared from radar shortly after it took off to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, carrying 239 people onboard, all of whom are presumed dead. Satellite data has indicated it was over the southern Indian Ocean when it went down. The cause of the flight’s disappearance, which has spawned , is widely regarded as one of the most significant unsolved aviation mysteries of all time. A previous three-month search by Ocean Infinity, in 2018, failed to turn up the plane’s wreckage, as did the original international search. Some debris to be from MH370 has washed up on Indian Ocean beaches. The Texas-based company’s chief executive, Oliver Plunkett, said earlier this year that its technology had improved since its first attempt at locating the wreckage, the AP reported. Malaysia is set to finalize its negotiations with Ocean Infinity in early 2025, as the firm has suggested that January to April would be the ideal search window, the AP reported. “This decision reflects the government’s commitment to continuing the search operation and providing closure for the families of MH370 passengers,” Loke said.