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Premium movie tickets for The Odyssey and Dune 3 resold for hundreds of dollars online 93%
7/5/2026, 4:49:03 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 31 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 32.2% saturation with 122 hits. Analysis detected 1,335 faulty-reasoning hits from 379 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.7% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,662 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 92.40% of the video peer group.
One of the biggest movies of the summer is just days away.
>> Help me go home.
>> But movie fans may have to go on an odyssey of their own to see it.
>> Keep saying error error error error.
>> Some of the fans already already sold out.
>> Premium seats for Christopher Nolan's eagerly anticipated new flick The Odyssey selling fast.
>> For 2 hours I sat refreshing the page.
>> What if I can't?
>> The movie from our sister company Universal Pictures is the first film to be entirely shot with 70 mm IMAX cameras.
Traditional 35 mm film fills a standard wide screen, while IMAX 70 mm film reveals much more of the image above and below.
It's a format available at only 25 theaters nationwide.
So when tickets went on sale for opening weekend, it was a bloodbath.
>> Felt like Beyoncé tickets.
It was crazy for movie.
>> Resellers trying to cash in on the hype asking as much as $2,000 for tickets to early showings.
>> I'm not paying 500 bucks for myself.
>> Similar tickets for June 3 also listed in the hundreds of dollars months before its December release.
IMAX tickets already cost almost $8 more than the average price for a seat in a theater.
>> There is so much fan demand for these premium format tickets that more than 20% of the domestic opening for some of
last year's biggest movies came from IMAX sales alone.
>> It's a real bright spot in an industry that's had a hard past 6 years. It's changed movie making.
>> Aaron Couch is a film editor at The Hollywood Reporter. How important is it for movies to premium tickets as part of the experience?
>> If you are a movie studio, it is essential. You are leaving money on the table if you don't do this.
>> A battle for the box office all for an epic experience at the movies.
Melas, NBC News, New York.
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