“A Journey Begins” is the tagline for Christopher Nolan‘s subsequent movie “The Odyssey.” Few film lovers anticipated the search to begin so early.
Imax tickets for “The Odyssey” will go on sale on July 17, 2025 — a whole yr earlier than the Common Photos motion epic is slated to hit the large display. However there’s a caveat: Tickets will solely be obtainable at film theaters with Imax 70mm screens (the director’s most well-liked format) — and only for choose showtimes. Tickets for different codecs and screenings are more likely to go on sale a lot, a lot nearer to the movie’s launch date.
Common and Imax declined to remark.
It’s uncommon {that a} studio would put tickets on sale so far upfront, however anticipation is excessive for Nolan’s cinematic follow-up to 2023’s “Oppenheimer,” which additional confirmed the director as a field workplace draw after producing a staggering $975 million globally and successful the Oscar for finest image.
Common’s advertising division is already attending to work earlier than “The Odyssey” has even accomplished manufacturing. A roughly minute-long teaser trailer for “The Odyssey” was just lately unveiled completely in cinemas forward of screenings for “Jurassic World Rebirth” and “Superman,” stoking pleasure over a yr earlier than the movie’s launch date. The teaser has but to formally debut on-line, retaining with Nolan’s longstanding prioritization of the large display expertise.
An adaptation of the Homer’s Greek epic, “The Odyssey” stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, and chronicles his lengthy and dangerous return residence after the Trojan Struggle. The starry ensemble consists of Tom Holland as Odysseus’ son Telemachus, in addition to Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron and Jon Bernthal. Nolan is re-teaming with Common, the studio that backed “Oppenheimer.” The movie will probably be launched on July 17, 2026.
“The Odyssey” would be the first film shot solely with Imax cameras. Nolan has been a loyalist to the high-tech format ever since his 2008 superhero epic “The Darkish Knight” grew to become the primary Hollywood launch to make the most of Imax cameras for choose motion sequences. Since then, Nolan has used Imax cameras on movies akin to 2010’s “Inception,” 2014’s “Interstellar” and 2020’s “Tenet” to offer them a sure scope and scale.
“Oppenheimer” specifically grew to become a drive in Imax, with the premium format contributing an enormous 20% of general field workplace grosses. Some cinephiles crossed state strains to see the movie in 70mm Imax, promoting out auditoriums for weeks. By placing tickets for “The Odyssey” on sale this far upfront, it’s clear that Common and Imax count on Nolan’s newest to drive an analogous demand on the world’s greatest and brightest screens.
