Need to be Seated for ‘The Odyssey?’ Some Showtimes Are Out Over a 12 months in Advance

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens in theaters one 12 months from this Thursday—on July 17, 2026—and one thing large could be coming to rejoice. Showtimes (simply showtimes, not a option to truly purchase tickets) for choose IMAX 70mm screenings of the film have begun to point out up on ticketing web sites, which is odd as a result of a) It’s over a 12 months upfront, b) Nolan remains to be making the film, which implies c) there isn’t a locked-in runtime but.

And but, should you head over to a web site like Fandango, there they’re. Showtimes. Sitting there. Gazing you. Teasing that you simply may need to purchase tickets a 12 months upfront if you wish to see this film in IMAX 70mm on opening weekend, which might be utterly unprecedented. (In some instances, showtimes will be seen 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 put up 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 12 months upfront. And with that one-year countdown looming on the seventeenth, you may think about that may imply the trailer makes it on-line, and tickets will go on sale for the movie’s most well-liked 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 carried out 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 intervening time, with extra presently underneath 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 utterly insane, to the purpose the place possibly it warrants beginning to promote tickets a 12 months upfront, even with no outlined runtime.

However film tickets a 12 months upfront? Often a month, possibly two or three, is the max for one thing actually, actually large. However a 12 months? 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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