Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has extended its 70mm engagement at Los Angeles's historic Alex Theatre through August 20, 2026, after audiences kept packing the house well beyond the original three-week run Deadline.

The Alex was never a sure thing for a first-run blockbuster. The 1,400-seat Glendale landmark — a 1925 movie palace where Walt Disney once screened his own films The Alex Theatre — had not hosted a first-run movie since Terminator 2: Judgment Day arrived in 1991. That is a 35-year gap. To play Nolan's film, the theatre recently installed 70mm film projectors and opened its special engagement on July 17 Deadline.

The bet paid off. The Alex Theatre became the highest-grossing cinema exhibiting The Odyssey in 70mm anywhere Deadline. The original engagement was slated to run July 16 through August 6 Alex Theatre, Facebook; demand pushed the closing date back by two weeks.

Miles Williams, the Alex Theatre's Artistic Director, publicly thanked Los Angeles audiences and Universal Pictures for making the 70mm presentation possible Deadline.

The extension is a single piece of a much larger box-office picture. The Odyssey, which Nolan shot entirely in Imax 70mm Deadline, has grossed $911 million worldwide after three weekends in release and sits close to the $1 billion mark Deadline. Of that total, $395.5 million comes from the domestic box office — the United States and Canada The Hollywood Reporter.

Universal Pictures, which released the film on July 17 Universal Pictures, backed the large-format exhibition strategy from the start, committing to IMAX and 70mm presentations across participating theatres Universal Pictures. The cast is a deep bench: Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron Universal Pictures.

For the Alex Theatre, a venue that spent decades functioning as a live-performance and revival house, a 70mm first run that outperforms every peer site is a notable pivot. The extension through August 20 gives audiences in the Los Angeles area another two weeks to see the film as Nolan intended — on film, projected large, in a room built for exactly that.