IMAX Melbourne Has Launched Ticket Sales for Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' a Year in Advance of Its July 2026 Release
Christopher Nolan obsessives, take note: this is the only cinema in Australia that'll be presenting the movie on IMAX 1570 film.
For two decades now, ever since Batman Begins proved such a smash back in 2025, the release of a new Christopher Nolan film has been a big occasion. Indeed, 'big' applies to much about the acclaimed director's approach. His movies are made for the big screen. The response is always huge. With The Odyssey, which releases in 2026, he's also making the first feature entirely shot on IMAX cameras.
If you already have Thursday, July 16, 2026 marked on your calendar, then you're clearly keen for the filmmaker's first picture since 2023's Oppenheimer, which won him the Best Director Oscar. Here's another date of importance: Thursday, July 17, 2025. Tickets for The Odyssey at IMAX Melbourne have already gone on sale a year out from the movie's release, and they're already likely to sell out.
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IMAX Melbourne is no stranger to showing Nolan's films, or for packing out its cinema while doing so. For The Odyssey, it will also be the only venue in Australia screening the movie on IMAX 1570 film and in the expanded 1.43 aspect ratio.
If you haven't been keeping up with news about Nolan's 13th feature, the Memento, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk and Tenet director is adapting Homer's epic ancient poem about Odysseus' ten-year journey home to Ithaca after the also ten-year Trojan War.
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Matt Damon (The Instigators) is playing Odysseus, Tom Holland (The Crowded Room) is his son Telemachus, and the rest of the cast also includes Zendaya (Challengers), Anne Hathaway (The Idea of You), Lupita Nyong'o (The Wild Robot), Robert Pattinson (Mickey 17), Charlize Theron (The Old Guard 2), Jon Bernthal (The Bear) and plenty more.
IMAX Melbourne is one of a handful of IMAX cinemas around the world with tickets for its 70-millimetre sessions now on sale, and the only one in Australia.
The Odyssey opens in Australian cinemas, including at IMAX Melbourne, on Thursday, July 16, 2026 — head to the IMAX Melbourne website for tickets.
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