A fan-made guide to a rare film format

Where’s The Odyssey showing on film?

Only 25 theaters in the country can run Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey the way he shot it: 70mm IMAX film print, run through a film projector. An antique format that feels more like the future! Find the one nearest you.

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The map

Every county, colored by its closest theater

Counties sharing a color share a theater. We call that group a region: the set of places for which that theater is the closest 70mm print in the country.

Drawing the map…
#1 serves the largest population relative to available seats. Each marker number is that region’s rank in the list below. Hover, tap, or scrub for details · use two fingers to pan or pinch

The ranking

Where a seat is hardest to get

Every region, ranked by how many people share each seat it offers on a typical day. #1 serves the largest population per seat. Open any row for its theaters, showtimes, and math.

How to read the ranking

Every scheduled seat counts once.

A 250-seat auditorium with five screenings offers 1,250 seats on a typical day. Divide the region’s population by that number and you get the people-per-seat figure each region is ranked on.

250seats per screening
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5screenings
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1,250seats on a typical day

How it works

What the map measures

How thinly a rare film format is spread, built from theater capacity, a typical day of screenings, and regional population.

01

Draw the regions

Every county in the lower 48 states and DC goes to whichever of the 25 theaters is closest to it. Counties that pick the same theater make up that theater’s region. Nearby Hollywood venues share one region because they are realistic alternatives to each other.

Every distance here is measured straight between two points. That is a consistent way to compare regions, not a travel estimate: any real journey is longer, and where mountains or water are in the way, much longer.

02

Find a typical day of screenings

Most screening counts come from Saturday, August 8, 2026. When a complete schedule was not available, we averaged published showtimes from the following week. We use those counts as a consistent stand-in for a typical day. Actual showtimes will vary during the run.

03

Compare people with seats

Population comes from the U.S. Census ACS, counted across every county in the region. Dividing it by the region’s seats for one day gives the people-per-seat number the ranking uses.

It is a measure of how thinly seats are spread, not a prediction of who buys a ticket. Expand any region for its seat count, screening count, capacity math, and sources.

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