{"id":715521,"date":"2026-06-04T23:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/715521\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:26:13","slug":"the-odyssey-gets-its-rating-format-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/715521\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; Gets Its Rating, Format Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-odyssey-gets-its-rating-format-videos.jpg\" data-caption=\"Universal Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-odyssey-gets-its-rating-format-videos.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"the-odyssey-gets-its-rating-format-videos\"\/><\/a>Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Universal Pictures has released six clips with the stars of Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d talking about the various formats with which the film is being shown theatrically.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Damon gets the top choice with IMAX 70mm 15-perf film, followed by Anne Hathaway, touting more regular IMAX.  Next is Lupita N\u2019yongo touting regular 70mm film, Zendaya with Dolby Cinema, and Tom Holland with \u2018Premium Large Format\u2019 (ie. 4DX, Screen X).  Poor Robert Pattinson gets stuck with regular old 35mm film.<\/p>\n<p>The clips come as IMAX tickets for the title have gone on sale today with demand so high that wait times of up to an hour have been reported, while AMC\u2019s ticketing app paused briefly due to high demand says <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/the-odyssey-amc-app-ticket-demand-christopher-nolan-epic-1236766869\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the film has seemingly been officially rated R by the MPA with the rating and previously confirmed 172 minute runtime displayed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tclchinesetheatres.com\/films\/IMAX-70mm-The-Odyssey\/HO00001469#showtimes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TCL Chinese Theaters<\/a> page. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/the-odyssey-r-rating-christopher-nolan-1236766780\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>, it\u2019s not clear yet why it got that rating.<\/p>\n<p>The rating is fitting with the story which features not just brutal battles but Odysseus having sex with multiple women, people being killed by creatures and some dark adult themes.<\/p>\n<p>Boasting a $250 million budget, this would potentially surpass the $210 million net budget of \u201cGladiator II\u201d as the most expensive R-rated movie ever.<\/p>\n<p>Also revealed today is the film\u2019s popcorn bucket, which is shaped like an IMAX camera.  \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d is set to hit cinemas on July 17th.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Odyssey&#8217;s IMAX popcorn bucket is an IMAX camera. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C6eQ7bYiAW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/C6eQ7bYiAW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/consequence\/status\/2062567035796607194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures Universal Pictures has released six clips with the stars of Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d talking about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-715521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}