'the Odyssey' Is Slamming Amc's Website Because Of Fans' Epic Demand For Tickets

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is surviving up to its sanction for moviegoers hoping to people tickets.

On Thursday, trying to reserve seats for Imax and different premium screenings via nan AMC ticketing app and its website became an epic travel of its own. Overwhelming request for tickets caused nan AMC app to pause; according to users connected societal media, hold times had reached an hr earlier successful nan day. Around noon, hold times were astir 20 minutes.

Nolan’s “Odyssey” is nan first characteristic movie changeable wholly pinch Imax film, which filmmakers thought (until now) couldn’t beryllium done. The head helmed immoderate of nan biggest blockbusters to day — “The Dark Knight,” “Inception,” “Interstellar,” “Dunkirk” and “Oppenheimer” to sanction a fewer — and he hasn’t fto up successful insisting these films should beryllium seen successful Imax.

Last month, Nolan told “60 Minutes” that successful this property of digitization and AI, shooting his films pinch a 70mm Imax camera is “a quality process, an analog process.”

“This portion of film, that’s nan highest value imaging format that’s ever been devised,” he told erstwhile CBS analogous Scott Pelley. “There’s thing that competes pinch it. It’s a monolithic negative, which, erstwhile correctly exposed, correctly printed and projected onto your screen, there’s an image value location that you can’t get anyplace else. Incredible sharpness, very small visible grain.”

“The Odyssey,” which stars A-listers Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, and even euphony prima Travis Scott, hits theaters connected July 17.

A typical for AMC did not respond to The Times’ petition for comment.