It has been announced that BFI Fellow Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, released in July, is now the biggest film to be screened at the BFI IMAX.
It has been confirmed that the BFI IMAX has sold more than 101,000 admissions for The Odyssey, which as the first feature film shot entirely with IMAX film cameras, can be experienced at the BFI IMAX in its intended presentation, screened from a rare IMAX 70mm print on the UK’s largest screen.
To date, £2,683,987 gross in ticket sales have been made from a single screen and achieving a 95% occupancy rate across all showtimes currently on sale – making it the cinema’s highest grossing film ever.
The complete top ten highest-grossing films of all time at BFI IMAX, including five more features directed by BFI Fellow Christopher Nolan, are:
- THE ODYSSEY (Christopher Nolan, 2026)
- AVATAR (James Cameron, 2009)
- OPPENHEIMER (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
- STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J.J. Abrams, 2015)
- THE DARK KNIGHT (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
- THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Christopher Nolan, 2012)
- DUNE: PART TWO (Denis Villeneuve, 2024)
- DUNKIRK (Christopher Nolan, 2017)
- INTERSTELLAR (Christopher Nolan, 2014)
- AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (James Cameron, 2022)
BFI IMAX Programme Manager Madeleine Mullett previously commented: “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. Across the BFI, our commitment to preserving and celebrating celluloid, alongside the filmmakers who continue to champion this format, speaks to the enduring power of storytelling and the unique communal experience of seeing film on film. The extraordinary demand for our IMAX 70mm presentation of The Odyssey, experienced as intended by the filmmakers, is ultimate proof of the appetite audiences have for cinema at its most authentic.”