My 2 a.m. ‘Odyssey’: Inside the Sold-Out, All-Night Screening of Christopher Nolan’s Epic

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" had its opening night debut in a sold-out, all-night IMAX seventy-millimeter screening in Manhattan. According to Variety, the event took place amid hazardous air quality conditions from Canadian wildfires—smoke had rendered the sky a hazy orange and made the air itself caustic enough to irritate eyes. For audiences venturing out, at least staying sheltered inside a theater for the entire night solved the problem of when to go outside.

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