{"id":532072,"date":"2026-07-18T09:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/532072\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:21:09","slug":"christopher-nolans-odyssey-sparks-a-frenzy-for-70-mm-imax-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/532072\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;Odyssey&#8221; Sparks a Frenzy for 70-mm IMAX Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 1:37 A.M. on Friday, July 17, and the line to get into the two A.M. showing of The Odyssey, at <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/arts-intel\/cities\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York\u2019s<\/a> AMC Lincoln Square 13, is so long it\u2019s beginning to look like an epic poem. Tickets for this 70-mm. IMAX screening were purchased weeks, months, and, in some cases, a year in advance.<\/p>\n<p>With the city blanketed in smoke from Canada\u2019s wildfires, those shuffling in to catch Christopher Nolan\u2019s two-hour-52-minute film look less like moviegoers than they do soldiers emerging from the fog after a Homeric battle, armor swapped out for pajama pants. The crowd is mixed: old, young, dating-app date, mother and newborn child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 1:37 A.M. on Friday, July 17, and the line to get into the two A.M. showing of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7072,262591,69537,275,430,58943,1798,262592,262593,156,79144,69747,15660,1767,111,139,18522,69,262594,95894,95371,3866,262595,1430,19418],"class_list":["post-532072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amc","tag-amc-lincoln-square-13","tag-anne-hathaway","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-coca-cola","tag-dolby-craigslist","tag-ellen-mirojnick","tag-entertainment","tag-homer","tag-imax","tag-matt-damon","tag-new-york","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-nz","tag-polyphemus","tag-project-hail-mary","tag-the-odyssey","tag-tom-holland","tag-trojan-horse","tag-united-states","tag-zendaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}