Scalpers have descended on The Odyssey, and the prices are getting absurd. Resale listings for Christopher Nolan’s IMAX 70mm screenings have flooded eBay, with confirmed sales already hitting $2,000 for a pair of opening-week seats, and one seller asking a staggering $10,000 for a block of opening-weekend tickets.
That listing — 12 tickets to an opening Saturday night 70mm show at the Mall of Georgia — sits at $10,000 or best offer, working out to roughly $833 a seat for a movie that hasn’t even opened yet.
And these aren’t just wishful asking prices. eBay’s sold listings confirm that The Odyssey tickets are already changing hands at premium rates, including a pair of 70mm seats at AMC Lincoln Square 13 in NYC that sold on June 6 for $2,000, or $1,000 a ticket. The $10,000 lots may be opportunistic long shots, but the resale market underneath them is very real.
The Most Expensive The Odyssey Tickets On eBay
The $10,000 listing grabs the most attention, but it’s hardly the only one. A look through current eBay listings reveals plenty of limited 70mm seats carrying staggering asking prices:
- $10,000 — 12 tickets, opening Saturday night, 70mm, Mall of Georgia
- $5,000 — 2 tickets, opening night IMAX 70mm, AMC Lincoln Square 13 NYC (about $2,500 a seat)
- $2,999 — 6 tickets, IMAX 70mm, AMC Lincoln Square 13
- $2,000 — a single IMAX 70mm ticket at Brendan Palms in Las Vegas
- $1,400 — 6 tickets, 70mm IMAX, Indiana State Museum
- $1,250 — 2 tickets, first screening 70mm, AMC Lincoln Square
Below those, the listings settle into a dense band of $900 to $1,200 asks, still wildly above face value for tickets that originally sold in the $25 to $40 range.
Tickets That Have Already Sold
The clearest proof the demand is real comes from eBay’s completed sales. Buyers have already paid well over face value for opening-week 70mm seats:
- $2,000 — 2 tickets, IMAX 70mm, AMC Lincoln Square 13 NYC (sold June 6)
- $850 — 4 tickets plus commemorative tickets, TCL Chinese Theatre (sold May 13)
- $799 — 2 tickets, IMAX 70mm, Harkins Arizona Mills (sold April 25)
With confirmed sales already topping $1,000 a seat weeks before release, the four-figure asking prices stacking up across eBay suddenly look less like fantasy and more like sellers testing how high a captive market will go.
Why AMC Lincoln Square Is The Epicenter
One venue shows up again and again: AMC Lincoln Square 13 in New York City. The theater is one of a handful of locations equipped to project true IMAX 70mm film, making its opening-week seats the single most coveted tickets in the country for Nolan purists.
That scarcity is exactly what scalpers feed on.
Because only a limited number of theaters worldwide can run the format, and because those auditoriums have a fixed number of seats, there’s no way for supply to catch up with demand, the same dynamic that sent Oppenheimer‘s 70mm runs into sold-out territory and turned premium seats into trophies.
The Odyssey Mania Is In Full Swing
The resale frenzy is just one symptom of an event film that’s tipping into full-blown mania more than a month before release.
Universal and exhibitors have leaned all the way in: limited-edition popcorn buckets have been revealed, late-night and even overnight screenings are being added at high-demand locations, and a promotional Trojan horse was reportedly set up to mark the film.
Standard-format tickets joined the premium screenings on sale this week, opening the floodgates beyond the IMAX die-hards.
It all adds up to the kind of cultural moment usually reserved for a concert tour, not a movie — which, fittingly, is exactly the comparison the numbers keep drawing.
Record Demand Behind The Resale Boom
The scalper surge follows a ticketing rollout that’s already made headlines twice over.
When premium seats first went on sale, demand overwhelmed AMC’s system and forced the chain to pause its online queue, leaving fans stuck with errors and hour-long waits.
AMC CEO Adam Aron later apologized for the mess while revealing that The Odyssey set a company sales record, the biggest first day for any studio-released movie since 2022, trailing only AMC’s own Taylor Swift and Beyoncé concert films.
With demand confirmed at that level, $10,000 eBay listings start to look less like a fluke and more like the inevitable next step.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Opens July 17, 2026
The Odyssey opens in theaters on July 17, 2026. Christopher Nolan writes and directs the mythic action epic, shot around the world using new IMAX film technology, adapting Homer’s story of Odysseus and his long journey home after the Trojan War. For everything on the film, see our complete guide to The Odyssey.
The cast includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee, Corey Hawkins, Nick E. Tarabay, Jimmy Gonzales, Maurice Compte, Michael Vlamis, and Iddo Goldberg.
