'The Odyssey' Passes 'Avatar' as Imax's Highest Grossing Film of All Time
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Sonny Bunch: What If ‘The Odyssey’ Stayed in IMAX 70mm Forever?
GET 15% OFF A GROUP SUBSCRIPTION The only thing that should stop the IMAX 70mm run of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is Dune: Part Three. At least that’s the perspective of The Bulwark’s culture editor, Sonny Bunch, who wants to see The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm venues — 41 auditoriums worldwide, including New York’s AMC Lincoln Square and TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles — until December. “You’re just printing money, and it’s insane to me that th…
The film adaptation of the Homeric epic also became the highest-grossing release in IMAX history.
'The Odyssey' Passes 'Avatar' as Imax's Highest Grossing Film of All Time
Universal’s “The Odyssey” has become the highest grossing movie in Imax history, passing the lifetime $256 million gross of James Cameron’s “Avatar” with releases in China and Japan still to come. In its fourth weekend, “The Odyssey” added an impressive $52 million from Imax screenings as the premium format accounted for nearly half of the $110 million that Christopher Nolan’s film added to its global cume this weekend. This is in spite of the f…
Ok but was it really how Nolan intended? (A review of The Odyssey)
Reading Time: 5 minutes By Prajna Girish (27S06O) Cinema seats have rarely been snatched as quickly as they did for Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated 2026 project–The Odyssey. I remember sitting at my desk, debating the merits of watching the smash-hit that had grossed $124 million in its opening weekend and 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, on IMAX, apparently “the way it was filmed to be seen”– though prices were upwards of twice a typical ticket. …
The Odyssey reached $1,104 million in world revenue and achieved two records for Christopher Nolan's career: it became his biggest film and displaced Avatar from the top historic position in IMAX theaters.The adaptation of Homer's poem, starring Matt Damon, still has room to expand those figures for its upcoming premieres in China and Japan.The result puts the feature film above the biggest commercial hits the director achieved with Batman's sag…
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