IMAX Tickets for Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Are Reselling for Upwards of $200 USD — A Year Before The Film Even Premieres
95% of tickets to seeChristopher Nolan'sThe OdysseyinIMAX70mm have already been sold — but the movie won't be out for another year.
An insider tellsVarietythat a majority of the sales took place within the first hour of the tickets going live. While the lucky ones were able to acquire them at face value, others may have to turn to scalpers who are selling tickets on eBay for upwards of $200 USD.
A Sunday night ticket at a Cinemark in Dallas, with the seat located on the left of the second row, is currently priced at 400% of its retail value. Meanwhile, four Saturday tickets at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City went on the auction block for a starting bid of $1,000 USD.
Varietyadds that the high demand for tickets isn't just due to Nolan's reputation as a stellar filmmaker. Viewers are also interested in seeing the director's work in the way he intended it to be — in the IMAX 70mm format.The Odysseywill be the first studio film to be shot entirely on IMAX cameras.
'It's bold, it's brilliant and it's audacious,' Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, said of the advanced ticket sales. 'But only someone of Nolan's stature could pull this off. He's a brand unto himself. If other filmmakers tried this, people would scoff.'
'This ticketing decision is generating all kinds of upfront attention for the movie,' stated Shawn Robbins, director of movie analytics at Fandango. 'When you do something that's never been done before, it helps make the movie seem like an event.'
The Odysseywill adapt Homer's ancient Greek epic with a star-studded cast. Matt Damon will portray Odysseus, the legendary king of Ithaca, while Tom Holland will play Telemachus, Odysseus' son. Also joining the two are Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong'o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page and more.
The Odysseyhits theaters July 17, 2026.
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