'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 the AMC ticketing app and its website became an epic travel of its own. Overwhelming request for tickets caused the AMC app to pause; according to users connected societal media, hold times had reached an hr earlier successful the day. Around noon, hold times were astir 20 minutes.

Nolan’s “Odyssey” is the archetypal diagnostic movie changeable wholly with Imax film, which filmmakers thought (until now) couldn’t beryllium done. The manager helmed immoderate of the biggest blockbusters to day — “The Dark Knight,” “Inception,” “Interstellar,” “Dunkirk” and “Oppenheimer” to sanction a fewer — and helium 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 with a 70mm Imax camera is “a quality process, an analog process.”

“This portion of film, that’s the highest prime imaging format that’s ever been devised,” helium told erstwhile CBS analogous Scott Pelley. “There’s thing that competes with it. It’s a monolithic negative, which, erstwhile correctly exposed, correctly printed and projected onto your screen, there’s an representation prime determination that you can’t get anyplace else. Incredible sharpness, precise small disposable grain.”

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

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