Tickets for IMAX 70mm screenings to “The Odyssey” are already selling out ahead of its July 2026 release.
SAN ANTONIO — Christopher Nolan – the director who brought “Inception, “Interstellar” and the “Dark Knight” trilogy to multiplexes while filling Hollywood’s coffers – is about the surest bet in movies these days. Few filmmakers have had carte blanche to pursue whatever they wanted ever since “Oppenheimer,” his three-hour opus about the creation of the atomic bomb, nabbed Best Picture at the Oscars and nearly a billion dollars at the box office.
It only makes sense, then, than Nolan is following it up with his take on Homer’s Greek epic “The Odyssey,” starring Matt Damon, Charlize Theron and a host of other stars. Universal, the studio behind the project, has billed it as a “mythic action epic shot across the world using brand-new IMAX film technology.”
The movie doesn’t open until a year from now, but if you needed any indication about industry excitement for the project, look no further than the fact that you can already secure tickets for some opening weekend showings next July.
Tickets went on sale this week for initial IMAX 70mm screenings of “The Odyssey,” the premium theatrical format that Nolan has described as the best way to watch a movie, given the extra detail and color it affords to certain sequences.
Not many movies are produced to screen in IMAX 70mm – the most recent were “Sinners,” “Joker: Folie à Deux” and “Oppenheimer” – but Nolan is breaking more ground by shooting “The Odyssey” entirely with those cameras. In 2023, downtown’s Rivercenter AMC was one of only 19 theaters in the U.S. equipped to screen “Oppenheimer” in the premium format, bringing hardcore cinephiles from across the state to the Alamo City (though there were hiccups).
Will “The Odyssey” see the return of those same fans to San Antonio come next summer? It remains to be seen. As of Thursday, advance tickets to the first of next summer’s IMAX 70mm were being sold for 16 U.S. cinemas, but only one in Texas: Cinemark Dallas XD.
And those initial four screenings are already sold out.
Should the epic story of Odysseus also be coming to AMC Rivercenter in superior IMAX 70mm, we’ll let you know.
For now, you’ve got a year to dust off that high school copy you never opened and read up. “The Odyssey” hits theaters on July 17, 2026.