Overview
- Ticket presales, which launched on Thursday, June 4, overloaded major platforms such as AMC and Fandango and forced virtual queues that lasted up to an hour before sales resumed.
- Universal released select IMAX 70mm opening-week screenings well in advance, causing many prime showings to sell out almost immediately and concentrating demand on a tiny number of 70mm-capable sites.
- Scalpers quickly listed scarce IMAX 70mm seats on resale sites with prices reported as high as $1,500 for single tickets and many listings in the hundreds of dollars.
- The film was shot entirely on IMAX 15‑perf/70mm film and is being promoted as best seen in IMAX; it carries a reported $250 million production budget, a 172-minute runtime, and a reported R rating that may limit some audience segments.
- The episode highlights a growing industry pattern where studios treat premium large-format screenings as event inventory, which can frustrate fans who must travel or pay inflated prices and is likely to prompt closer scrutiny of presale allocation and ticketing infrastructure.