{"id":352203,"date":"2026-07-25T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352203\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:25:20","slug":"the-odyssey-is-sold-out-for-weeks-at-floridas-only-70mm-imax-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352203\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Odyssey’ is sold out for weeks at Florida’s only 70mm IMAX screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

People are packing theaters to see The Odyssey this summer. And no theater in Florida is more in demand than Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Autonation IMAX theater at the Museum of Discovery and Science.<\/p>\n

The venue is home to a 70mm IMAX screen, one of just 25 in the country and the only one in Florida to use the high quality, giant-format film technology. <\/p>\n

The movie is billed as the first narrative film shot entirely on IMAX cameras, meaning the museum’s theater is one of the only places to watch the movie as its celebrated director, Christopher Nolan \u2014 of Oppenheimer and Interstellar fame \u2014 intended.<\/p>\n

A total of \u200a35,822 tickets have been sold for showing of the film so far. That’s the equivalent of 136 consecutive completely sold-out shows\u00a0says Joe Cox, the museum\u2019s president and CEO.<\/p>\n

“This is one of those rare cinematic format events that has literally turned our AutoNation IMAX theater at the Museum of Discovery and Science into a regional cultural destination,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ MORE: From penalty boxes to physics: Hockey takes over Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale<\/a><\/p>\n

Cox says he’s met people who drove down from Atlanta or flew in from Puerto Rico just to see the film in its optimal format.<\/p>\n

The majority of movie theaters today use digital projectors. A 70mm projector not only uses an actual film print, which cinephiles argue brings more sharpness and character to the images, but one that is much larger than the standard 35mm print \u2014 bringing a higher resolution to the screen.<\/p>\n

Additionally, a full-size IMAX screen like the 65-foot-high screen in Fort Lauderdale is not only larger than IMAX screens found in multiplexes but its ratio is also different \u2014 being slightly taller \u2014 meaning that more of the frame is shown, as the director originally intended.<\/p>\n

Tickets are sold out through mid-August \u2014 but Cox says they\u2019ll be adding more shows in waves, and he\u2019s working with the studio to keep showing The Odyssey as long as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People are packing theaters to see The Odyssey this summer. And no theater in Florida is more in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-352203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}