{"id":376913,"date":"2026-07-17T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:17:08","slug":"san-antonio-imax-reportedly-cancels-odyssey-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376913\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio IMAX reportedly cancels &#8216;Odyssey&#8217; screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after a tornado damaged the\u00a0Santikos Palladium theater, which has one of two IMAX theaters in San Antonio playing director Christopher Nolan\u2019s new movie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/entertainment\/movies_tv\/article\/the-odyssey-review-22340725.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d <\/a>technical difficulties reportedly canceled screenings of the movie at AMC Rivercenter, the second IMAX theater.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Rivercenter theater is one of only two in Texas that has a 70mm IMAX film projector. \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d is the first movie to be shot entirely with a large-format IMAX camera.<\/p>\n<p>Repairs at the Palladium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/article\/santikos-palladium-reopens-repairs-time-the-22348273.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were completed<\/a> in time for the movie\u2019s Thursday evening opening, but it appears that screenings at the Shops at Rivercenter theater downtown have been halted through at least Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On the social media platform\u00a0Reddit, movie buffs started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sanantonio\/comments\/1uyo5ra\/imax_70mm_odyssey\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at least<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sanantonio\/comments\/1uyiz4u\/at_the_6_pm_70mm_odyssey_showing_were_not_a_70mm\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> two threads<\/a> Wednesday on the San Antonio subreddit to share their experiences.<\/p>\n<p>One started with a notification the poster said they received from AMC Theatres that read, in part: \u201cDue to a technical issue, the movie at AMC Ricercenter 11 has been cancelled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to conversations on the other thread, which included a photo of what appeared to be a blank screen inside the theater, the 2\u00a0p.m. Thursday screening went off without a hitch, but the projector malfunctioned during the 6 p.m. screening. Several people posted that they had received cancellation notices for today&#8217;s screenings.<\/p>\n<p>The next screening at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amctheatres.com\/movie-theatres\/san-antonio\/amc-rivercenter-11-with-alamo-imax\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMC Rivercenter<\/a> with tickets available for sale is 3:15 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, virtually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/entertainment\/article\/oppenheimer-imax-san-antonio-fixed-18258398.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the same thing <\/a>happened on the opening weekend of Nolan\u2019s award-winning movie \u201cOppenheimer.\u201d Multiple screenings were canceled because of technical difficulties with the IMAX projector at Rivercenter AMC early in the movie\u2019s run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the problems with the projector were resolved and screenings continued.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after a tornado damaged the\u00a0Santikos Palladium theater, which has one of two IMAX theaters in San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-376913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}