Nolan shot his epic of Odysseus to be seen in a format only a few dozen theaters on earth can project. Just one of them is in Florida — inside a museum in Greater Fort Lauderdale.

 

The film print for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is, physically, one of the largest objects the movie industry still makes by hand. A single 70mm IMAX reel runs close to eleven miles and weighs some six hundred pounds, and it has to be threaded onto the projector by a crew trained specifically to handle it. Universal produced only about thirty of these prints for the entire world. One of them will spend this summer in downtown Fort Lauderdale.

 

Nolan's film is the first feature ever shot entirely with IMAX cameras — Homer's epic by way of the largest lenses in cinema, with Matt Damon as Odysseus and a cast that runs through Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, and Robert Pattinson. For two decades the director has argued, with the conviction of a man who means it, that the biggest films deserve the biggest possible frame, and that the difference is not a flourish but the point. The Odyssey is the fullest case he has yet made for that idea, and he built it to be seen in a format — true 15/70mm IMAX — that only a few dozen theaters on the planet can project.

 

Greater Fort Lauderdale is home to one of them. Inside the Museum of Discovery and Science, a few blocks from the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the AutoNation IMAX keeps a screen six stories tall — the largest in South Florida — with an aspect ratio that runs to the edges of what the eye can hold. No screen in Miami can show the film this way; neither can Orlando or Tampa. For the length of its run, the only complete version of the year's most anticipated movie lives right here.

 

The Odyssey is, above all, a story about arrival — about the distance a man will cross for the place that matters. This summer, that place is Greater Fort Lauderdale: the only spot in Florida where the film plays exactly as Nolan made it. The run is short and tickets are already moving fast, tickets are on sale now at the Museum of Discovery and Science. However you get here, it's a trip worth making.

 

Getting here

The AutoNation IMAX sits in the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale, an easy eight-minute walk from the Brightline station — about half a mile. Brightline connects Greater Fort Lauderdale to Miami and West Palm Beach in around thirty minutes, and runs straight down from Orlando, so you can skip the drive and the parking altogether. Step off the train, stroll a few blocks along the New River, and take your seat. Add Brightline+ to your ticket and it's easy to make a day of it — Las Olas Boulevard and the beach are just minutes away.

The Odyssey opens July 17, 2026.

  • The only place in Florida to see Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in true 15/70mm IMAX is the AutoNation IMAX Theater at the Museum of Discovery and Science in downtown Fort Lauderdale (401 SW 2nd Street). It is the sole theater in the state equipped to project the film in its native large-format print.

  • Yes. Nolan shot the film entirely on 15-perf/70mm IMAX cameras, and only a few dozen theaters worldwide can screen it in that format. The AutoNation IMAX in Fort Lauderdale is the single Florida location on that list — no theater in Miami, Orlando, or Tampa can show it this way.

  • The Odyssey opens in theaters on July 17, 2026.

  • The Brightline Fort Lauderdale station (101 NW 2nd Avenue) is about half a mile from the AutoNation IMAX at the Museum of Discovery and Science — roughly an eight-minute walk through downtown Fort Lauderdale.

  • Yes. Brightline connects Fort Lauderdale to Miami, Aventura, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Orlando. From Miami or West Palm Beach it is about a thirty-minute ride, and the station is a short walk from the theater — making Fort Lauderdale the easiest place in Florida to see the film without driving or parking.

  • The film stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, alongside Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron. It is directed by Christopher Nolan and adapted from Homer's epic poem.