{"id":23502,"date":"2026-07-31T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23502"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:30:57","slug":"new-bfi-imax-screenings-sell-out-in-under-30-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23502","title":{"rendered":"New BFI Imax Screenings Sell Out in Under 30 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLondon\u2019s BFI <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/imax\/\" id=\"auto-tag_imax\" data-tag=\"imax\">Imax<\/a> cinema \u2014\u00a0the biggest Imax screen in the U.K. \u2014\u00a0is experiencing it\u2019s very own Odyssey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn Friday, due to unprecedented demand to see Chris Nolan\u2019s already record-breaking \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-odyssey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-odyssey\" data-tag=\"the-odyssey\">The Odyssey<\/a>,\u201d on Imax 70mm, as the director intended, the BFI Imax released another batch of tickets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHowever, seemingly only those with the gods on their side got lucky. Within minutes of going on sale at 2 p.m. local time, people were reporting that they\u2019d sold out, with stories appearing online about \u201c40,000 people\u201d being in a virtual queue. The BFI later told <em>Variety<\/em> that all tickets had gone \u201cin under 30 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOdysseus waited 10 years to get home. These fans are about to wait longer just to sit down,\u201d wrote one on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe latest sell-out of tickets comes just weeks after \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d became the BFI Imax\u2019s biggest opening weekend of all time, taking \u00a3219,867 ($300,000) over three days and topping \u201cStar Wars: The Last Jedi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film also broke the theater\u2019s single-day pre-sale record, selling 28,000 tickets in 24 hours a full year in advance, amounting to a \u00a3750,000 ($1 million) in gross revenue. That surpassed the pre-sale record for \u201cDune: Part Two\u201d and \u201cOppenheimer,\u201d which took \u00a3366,000 and \u00a3254,000 respectively in their first 24 hours on sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBut one cinema in London offers just a snapshot of the global phenomenon that \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d has become, with the film recently surpassing $700 million to become the fourth highest-grossing movie of the year after just 12 days in theaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFor a short period, it did seem that the U.K. did have one over the U.S., where there were numerous complaints about AMC\u2019s website crashing after new tickets went on sale. However, it would soon emerged on Friday that the BFI\u2019s website, much like Odysseus\u2019s plans to make it home from Troy in decent time, had also crashed. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London\u2019s BFI Imax cinema \u2014\u00a0the biggest Imax screen in the U.K. \u2014\u00a0is experiencing it\u2019s very own Odyssey. On Friday, due to unprecedented demand to see Chris Nolan\u2019s already record-breaking \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d on Imax 70mm, as the director intended, the BFI Imax released another batch of tickets. 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