Tickets for The Odyssey went on sale last week, and it created quite a stir. The main reason is that only a select number of theaters in the entire world will be playing the film in the director’s preferred format: 70mm IMAX, and supply did not meet demand. However, the film is being released in a ton of other premium formats too, and now, to celebrate, everyone’s favorite movie tracker, Letterboxd, is allowing users to do something it has never done before.
For the first time ever, Letterboxd will allow its users not just to log that they’re seeing The Odyssey, but it will also allow them to log which format of The Odyssey they’re seeing. Here’s one of the film’s stars, Tom Holland, to explain.
To celebrate the forthcoming release of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, Tom Holland announces a special treat for the Letterboxd community.
The Odyssey is in theaters worldwide July 17. pic.twitter.com/78FG5Z5QJU
— Letterboxd (@letterboxd) June 8, 2026
How, specifically, Letterboxd plans to do this is unclear. Will it have “The Odyssey: 70mm IMAX” or “The Odyssey: 4DX” as individual entries? Will there be a subcategory under The Odyssey to make the distinction? And how will this “digital punch card” be displayed? We don’t know. But, as Holland says, Letterboxd will make that known soon.
Now, if this idea sounds familiar, it’s because it’s happened a few times in recent months. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, for example, advocated for something very similar with the release of their film, Project Hail Mary. That film, like The Odyssey, was released in a ton of premium formats, and the directors helped spread a little checklist fans could fill out if they saw it in those formats. Fans also did this with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Best Picture winner One Battle After Another last year.
But neither of those lists was in Letterboxd itself, which is where many, many film fans prefer to keep track of their viewing habits. So it’s a cool level-up of the idea.
So what formats will be available for The Odyssey? Well, there are a lot. There’s 70mm IMAX (the rarest and preferred version as it’s the first film ever to be shot wholly in this format), 70mm standard, regular IMAX, 35mm, Dolby Vision, 4DX, D-Box, and then lots of different, theater-specific formats like RPX, XD, and others. Basically, you could see The Odyssey probably a dozen times, and each time be slightly different. Which is pretty cool. Find out more about all of them here.
Tickets for all of those premium format screenings of The Odyssey are now on sale. More tickets for other standard formats will go on sale soon.
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