The $1.7 billion epic starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland is returning to select IMAX theatres, giving fans who missed the 70mm run a second shot at seeing it as Nolan shot it.
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is going back into IMAX this week. Tickets are already on sale for select theatres, according to Collider, giving audiences who missed the premium 70mm run during its original release a second chance to see the film the way Nolan built it to be seen.
That matters more than it might for most re-releases. The Odyssey was shot entirely on IMAX film cameras, the first major movie to pull that off, and demand for 70mm screenings was reportedly so intense during its theatrical run that many venues only had the cropped, non-IMAX version available. Anyone who struck out the first time around now gets another go.
The numbers explain the appetite for an encore. The film has grossed more than $1.7 billion worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing release of 2026 behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Collider also reports it now sits 11th on the all-time worldwide chart, slotted between Zootopia 2 and Inside Out 2. That's rarefied company for a film built on a three-thousand-year-old Greek poem.
Critics and audiences have mostly agreed on this one, which doesn't happen often. The Odyssey holds a 94% Certified Fresh score from critics and a 96% Verified Hot audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Collider's own review landed at 9/10, with praise going to the performances and the IMAX camerawork specifically.
Matt Damon plays Odysseus, the Ithacan king trying to get home a decade after the Trojan War ends. Anne Hathaway is Penelope, holding off suitors back home, and Tom Holland plays their son Telemachus, caught in the middle of that standoff. It's the kind of starry, old-fashioned epic casting Nolan hasn't really attempted before, and reviewers have singled out the cast as much as the technical achievement.
The timing of this IMAX return isn't accidental either. The format's calendar is about to get crowded. Dune: Part Three lands in December and will reportedly run as an IMAX exclusive in American theatres, going up against Avengers: Doomsday, which is set to get its own limited IMAX presence around the same window. Studios know IMAX screens are finite and valuable, and nobody wants to be squeezed out when two tentpoles are fighting for the same thirty-odd premium auditoriums in a market.
For now, though, the format belongs to Nolan's Greeks for one more week. Whether this re-release pushes the worldwide total meaningfully higher, or just lets the die-hards tick a box they missed the first time, isn't clear yet. Exact theatre counts and how long the run lasts haven't been detailed beyond "select theaters this week." Expect that list to firm up as the weekend approaches.
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