The Odyssey Tickets Go on Sale 1 Year Early Starting This Week – But There's a Catch

Tickets for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey volition spell connected merchantability this Thursday, July 17 – 1 twelvemonth earlier its premiere successful 2026.

Universal Pictures announced the out-of-the-ordinary precocious summons merchantability program contiguous (via Variety), giving hardcore movie fans a accidental to unafraid their spot successful theaters a whopping 365 days earlier Nolan’s adjacent movie really arrives connected July 17, 2026. If you conscionable can’t hold to spot however Nolan is bringing Homer’s legendary portion of lit to the large screen, you’ll privation to people your calendar for aboriginal this week.

The Odyssey tickets volition beryllium disposable 1 twelvemonth early, but determination are immoderate things to cognize earlier getting excessively excited. Tickets volition lone beryllium disposable for a prime fewer movie theaters. Specifically, audiences tin lone drawback a spot to 70mm IMAX showings erstwhile the merchantability begins aboriginal this week. That limits showings to a precious fewer cinemas that adjacent enactment this peculiar viewing experience.

With availability astir guaranteed to beryllium highly limited, those with entree to 70mm IMAX screens volition privation to enactment accelerated if they privation to bushed different anxious Nolan fans. Expect stiff contention erstwhile tickets spell live, arsenic Universal has already started teasing what The Odyssey has successful store, acknowledgment to a first-look poster and adjacent a trailer that ran successful beforehand of immoderate July movie releases.

Nolan, who established himself arsenic 1 of the biggest filmmakers successful Hollywood passim the 2000s and 2010s, cemented his presumption adjacent further with 2023’s Oppenheimer. The Cillian Murphy-led biopic was 1 fractional of the Barbenheimer phenomenon, managing to make a staggering $975 cardinal during its theatrical tally (via Box Office Mojo). Beyond its occurrence arsenic a container bureau megaton, the movie managed to proceed its triumph streak during the pursuing awards season, walking distant with Best Picture astatine the Oscars.

Oppenheimer shook the manufacture erstwhile it dropped, and with different large movies similar Inception and The Dark Knight nether Nolan’s belt, it seems apt that 70mm IMAX tickets for The Odyssey volition merchantability fast. As for modular theatre summons sales, Universal has yet to denote its plans, truthful expect to spot much options get person to the film’s premiere adjacent July.

The Odyssey features a star-studded formed that includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, and more.

For much connected each things Nolan, you tin work our 10/10 Oppenheimer review. You tin besides work up connected wherefore Avatar manager James Cameron thinks the World War 2-era biopic could person done a fewer things differently.

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