Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has become the highest-grossing film of all time at London’s BFI Imax venue.
The Universal film has recorded £2.7m in ticket sales to date from its single screen, with more than 101,000 admissions sold. That passes the £2.5m record of 2009 release Avatar, with further takings to come for The Odyssey.
The BFI Imax is the number one Imax venue in the UK and international markets for the film, and the second-highest-grossing Imax screen globally, behind the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, which has almost double the BFI Imax’s 500-seat capacity.
It sold 28,000 pre-sale tickets in the first 24 hours when tickets went on sale in June for £750,000 in revenue; and took £220,000 on The Odyssey’s opening weekend, for the highest opening of any film at the venue. The BFI Imax also ran a Christopher Nolan On Film strand from January onwards, building up to The Odyssey, with Imax 70mm screenings of Nolan films from The Dark Knight trilogy through to Oppenheimer.
“As the only cinema in the UK to hold a complete archive of Christopher Nolan’s Imax 70mm filmography, now including The Odyssey, we are proud to be the home of Christopher Nolan on film,” said BFI Imax programme manager Madeleine Mullett.
The venue had sold out all of its screenings through until September 10. It added additional screenings through until September 17 on Friday, August 14; those screenings have also sold out.
Released on July 17 to a £12.6m first session, The Odyssey reached £69.1m this past weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, holding second place. It is the highest-grossing Nolan film, and second-highest-grossing literary adaptation ever behind Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (£73.2m).
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