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The Odyssey Smashes London IMAX Record, $1.5M US Pre-sales

6/17/2026

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BFI IMAX London sold 28,000 tickets for The Odyssey in 24 hours, grossing £750,000.
The £750,000 gross broke the venue’s first-day record, surpassing Dune: Part Two (£366,000) and Oppenheimer (£254,000).
Four opening-weekend screenings sold out in under an hour a year before the July 17 release.
AMC theatres in United States logged $1.5 million in advance ticket sales—the highest PLF sales in four years—while eBay scalpers listed tickets up to $1,500.

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BFI IMAX London sold 28,000 tickets for The Odyssey in 24 hours, grossing £750,000.
The £750,000 gross broke the venue’s first-day record, surpassing Dune: Part Two (£366,000) and Oppenheimer (£254,000).
Four opening-weekend screenings sold out in under an hour a year before the July 17 release.
AMC theatres in United States logged $1.5 million in advance ticket sales—the highest PLF sales in four years—while eBay scalpers listed tickets up to $1,500.