Wish to be Seated for ‘The Odyssey?’ Some Showtimes Are Out Over a Yr in Advance

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens in theaters one yr from this Thursday—on July 17, 2026—and one thing large is likely to be coming to have fun. Showtimes (simply showtimes, not a method to really purchase tickets) for choose IMAX 70mm screenings of the film have begun to indicate up on ticketing web sites, which is odd as a result of a) It’s over a yr upfront, b) Nolan remains to be making the film, which suggests c) there isn’t a locked-in runtime but.

And but, if you happen to head over to a web site like Fandango, there they’re. Showtimes. Sitting there. Watching you. Teasing that you just might need to purchase tickets a yr upfront if you wish to see this film in IMAX 70mm on opening weekend, which might be fully unprecedented. (In some circumstances, showtimes could be considered on an app and never a browser, however they’re there. Right here’s a screenshot.)

So what’s the deal? io9 reached out to Common, Fandango, and IMAX for any remark or clarification on this and has but to listen to again as of publication. We’ll replace this submit if, or when, we hear again. However it’s price noting that Common did launch that teaser trailer for the movie in theaters over a yr upfront. And with that one-year countdown looming on the seventeenth, you may think about which may imply the trailer makes it on-line, and tickets will go on sale for the movie’s most popular format as the beginning of a mega media blitz.

That’s as a result of, in case you missed it, The Odyssey is doing one thing no movie has completed earlier than. It’s the primary feature-length Hollywood manufacturing to be solely filmed with IMAX 70mm cameras. It’s a format that followers can solely see in a handful of theaters in the mean time, with extra presently beneath building with the plan to be open in time for The Odyssey. Which means everybody expects demand to see the movie within the format to be fully insane, to the purpose the place possibly it warrants beginning to promote tickets a yr upfront, even with no outlined runtime.

However film tickets a yr upfront? Often a month, possibly two or three, is the max for one thing actually, actually large. However a yr? With the movie not even near completed? If anybody can do it, it’s Christopher Nolan. Hopefully we be taught extra within the coming days, however in case you are a Nolan head, it’s finest to begin your native theaters now.

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