Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has exhausted the IMAX projections … a year before the release

Christopher NolanThe imminent epic The odyssey It will not arrive in cinemas until 17 July 2026, but the film is already making history and causing a frenzy, selling premium projections with a whole year in advance.

At the beginning of this week, the fans noticed something strange on the ticket office sites: the lists for the iMax 70mm projections in July 2026. At midnight and on July 17th, IMAX confirmed the news, publishing that “the first iMax 70mm projections for a year were live.

Sixteen theaters in the United States, six in Canada, two in the United Kingdom and one in the Czech Republic they quietly left a handful of jobs, and they left almost instantly.

In New York, where there is only one participating theater, the places evaporate in a few minutes. In Los Angeles, with different options, the Saleut took more at an hour. Starting now, everything is booked unless you are well with the feared first row.

Why chaos? These are not just projections. These are the only theaters currently equipped to show the Odyssey in Imax 70mm, the Nolan format has shot the entire film.

This marks a first one in the history of cinema, a complete feature captured entirely on IMAX 70mm cameras, presented in an imposing 1.43: 1 proportion for the entire Runtime. Regular theaters will still project the film, but these 70 mm projections are the last way to experience it.

Almost immediately, the Scalpers started to list tickets at absurd prices and fans who lost have expressed frustration to be stuck so long before the release.

Here is the reality, however, these are only the first projections in the selected theaters. Nolan is still changing the film and does not yet know the final runtime. More jobs will be and some theaters could shoot the film all day on the weekend of opening if the question remains so high, which seems inevitable.

Imax is also working to expand the number of screens capable of showing the format next year. So, if you lost, don’t give your ski money your money. Other possibilities are coming.

Anyone who is illuminated by this move deserve credit. It was an acrobatics calculated to generate buzz for the IMAX 70mm experience and worked. We are talking about a film still in production, one year outside, and has already sold thousands of tickets, making the story as the first film ever to do so much in advance.