Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” sold 28,000 tickets at BFI Imax in 24 hours, grossing £750,000 and breaking the London venue’s first-day sales record.
The UK’s largest screen said the ticket rush followed four opening-weekend screenings that had already sold out in under an hour, including a special midnight showing.
The first-day gross surpassed “Dune: Part Two,” which made £366,000 in its first 24 hours on sale at the venue. Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” made £254,000 in the same period.
“The Odyssey” is billed as the first feature shot entirely on IMAX 70mm with IMAX cameras. The film is scheduled to open on July 17.
The cast includes Matt Damon, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron. The film adapts the ancient Greek epic about Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan War.
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BFI Imax also delivered a major result for Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” in 2023. The venue reported the biggest opening-weekend box-office result for that film on any UK screen, with £207,677.
The London venue was the second-highest-grossing IMAX screen worldwide for “Oppenheimer” on opening weekend, behind TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. “Oppenheimer” later ended its initial BFI IMAX run with £2.2 million
