What are you doing a year from now? If you’re a cinephile, you probably already have the opening date of Christopher Nolan’s new film, The Odyssey, circled on the calendar. Now, you can set it in stone.
As first reported by Variety, starting Thursday, July 17, 2025, Nolan super fans – and, we supposed, hardcore Homer-heads – can purchase tickets to see the movie in IMAX 70mm theaters in the US and UK, exactly one year before the film is released in cinemas.
Rumors began swirling earlier in the week as Reddit users noticed showtimes for the movie already listed at theaters in Arizona and Dallas. The recently reopened AMC Lincoln Square in New York has a 2 pm showtime listed as ‘available soon’, while the fan community IMAX Vanguard suggests tickets will soon go on sale for a screening at the BFI in London.
While studios will often make deals with IMAX theaters far in advance, to have those plans made public a year in advance is unprecedented. The catch here is that only about 30 theaters in the world are equipped with IMAX projectors. But that didn’t stop enthusiasts from travelling great distances to see Nolan’s previous movie, 2023’s Oppenheimer, in the format: IMAX screenings accounted for 20 percent of the Best Picture winner’s $975 million worldwide gross.
Nolan is one of the format’s truest believers, having shot parts of nearly every film he’s made since The Dark Knight using IMAX cameras, while The Odyssey will be the first shot entirely on such cameras.
The Odyssey is indeed based on the poet Homer’s ancient Greek epic, with Matt Damon starring as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, making the grueling journey home at the end of the Trojan War. He’ll be joined by damn near every A-list star in Hollywood. A 70-second teaser trailer, featuring the presumed voice of Robert Pattinson and an appearance from John Bernthal, has been airing in front of Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman, even though the film is currently still in production.
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