The first tickets for the odyssey, sold a year in advance, are already tearing off

The wait around Christopher Nolan’s peplum is historic.

Odyssey will be released in the cinema in a year, July 15, 2026 in France (17 in the United States). And the buzz around the new blockbuster of Christopher Nolan is simply Homeric. To the point that universal, which has been collaborating with Nolan since Oppenheimeralready broadcasts a first teaser, shown before projections of Jurrassic World: Renaissanceto raise the sauce.

The studio also set out to launch the presales this week. Unheard of in the history of cinema. They only relate to Imax sessions, the format in which Nolan has shot Odyssey. It is also the first feature film to have been fully in Imax 70 mm.

Proof of the immense hype around this peplum which brings together a casting XXL (Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, etc.), 95% of the places left in less than 24 hours, reports Variety. And clever little ones are of course trying to take the opportunity to make money on this operation.

This very upstream sale, 12 months before the release of the film whose filming is not even finished (!), Produced a well -known phenomenon in the world of music concerts. Speculators bought tickets in order to resell them at high prices. And there are places sold to several hundred dollars (up to 300 or 400 dollars, according to The Hollywood Reporter) On eBay.

This frenzy confirms the Boom of the Imax, which had been a key factor in the success ofOppenheimer At the box office, with nearly a billion revenues worldwide, including 186 million just on IMAX screens. According to THRthe beginnings of Odyssey have already reported $ 1.5 million, and it can easily be anticipated that the film will be a huge success.

“”It’s daring, it’s brilliant and daring“, judges a comscore analyst quoted by Variety. “”But only someone in Nolan’s stature is able to achieve this. He is a brand alone. If other directors did that, people would laugh.“”

Note that these preverters currently concern a limited number of countries: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Czech Republic. In France, where there are around thirty Imax rooms, we do not know on what date will be put up for sale for places for Odyssey.