Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed epic The Odyssey is now the biggest film of all time at the UK’s largest cinema, the BFI IMAX.

To date, BFI IMAX has sold more than 101,000 admissions for the movie, generating £2,683,987 gross in ticket sales from a single screen and achieving a 95% occupancy rate across all showtimes currently on sale – making it the cinema’s highest grossing film ever.

The film has overtaken James Cameron’s 2009 ground-breaker Avatar to claim the crown at the venue.

BFI IMAX remains the number one IMAX venue in both the UK and international markets for the film, while the London cinema is also the second-highest grossing IMAX screen globally, behind the TCL Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, which has almost double the capacity.

As the first feature film shot entirely with IMAX film cameras, the movie can be experienced at BFI IMAX in its intended presentation, screened from a rare IMAX 70mm print.

The BFI IMAX at Waterloo in London is the UK’s biggest cinema screen. It measures 26 metres wide by almost 20 metres high (spanning roughly 280 square metres), making it roughly the height of five double-decker buses. The Odyssey has been sold out for weeks at the venue and tickets even weeks in advance have been almost impossible to come by.

The complete top ten highest-grossing films of all time at BFI IMAX, including five more features directed by BFI Fellow Nolan, are:

Last month, BFI IMAX was the number one IMAX venue in both the UK and international markets for The Odyssey’s opening weekend, with a three-day gross of £219,867. This put the film at the top of the all-time BFI IMAX opening weekend box office rankings. The movie also shattered BFI IMAX’s one-day presale record in June, selling 28,000 tickets in the first 24 hours for a gross revenue of £750,000. This achievement came after four opening weekend screenings sold out in less than an hour, a full year ahead of release.

In anticipation of the film’s launch the same venue hosted a popular Nolan retrospective.

Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid and The Man I Love by Ira Sachs are among the titles that will screen as part of the Perlak competition sidebar for fall fest favorites this year at San Sebastian. 

San Sebastian announced its Perlak titles this morning. The festival will run from September 18 to 26. Scroll down for the full lineup.

Club Kid is Firstman’s feature debut as a director. The film stars Cara Delevingne and Diego Calva and premiered in the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes, where A24 picked it up. The film follows a hard-partying New York City club promoter, whose life is upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had. 

Sachs’s The Man I Love follows a New York performance artist, Jimmy George, in late 1980s New York. Jimmy is dying of AIDS as that crisis devastates the city’s artistic community. Despite the prognosis, his desire to live, love, and make art endures. Luther Ford, Tom Sturridge, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Rebecca Hall also star.

San Sebastian’s Perlak section will also screen Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner Fjord. The film follows an immigrant Romanian family living in Norway who are subject to an investigation by the local judicial system.

This year at San Sebastián will be José Luis Rebordinos’s last at the helm. The longtime fest director steps down at the end of this year and will be replaced by Maialen Beloki.

Beloki holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Navarra and a PhD (Cum Laude) in Film Theory, Analysis and Documentation from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Her career combines cultural management, teaching and research. She is part of the Academic Board of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, where she also lectures, and has collaborated as a professor at Mondragon Unibertsitatea.

Perlak 2026:

Minotaur
Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)
Country(ies) of production: France – Germany – Latvia
Cast: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Boris Kudrin, Yuriy Zavalnyouk, Varvara Zmykova, Vladimir Friedman, Elena Bogdanovich-Golubeva, Mikhail Samodakhov
Opening Film
Russia, 2022. When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.

Juste une illusion / Just an Illusion
Eric Toledano (France), Olivier Nakache (France)
Country(ies) of production: France
Cast: Louis Garrel, Camille Cottin, Pierre Lottin, Simon Boublil, Alexis Rosesnstiehl, Jeanne Lamartine
Closing film out of competition
1985, Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris with his middle-class family, caught between an older brother who brushes him off and parents who never stop arguing. No longer a kid but not yet an adult, Vincent fumbles through life’s big questions: identity, friendship, family, first crushes… and why adults never seem to have figured things out either.

Club Kid
Jordan Firstman (USA)
Country(ies) of production: USA
Cast: Jordan Firstman, Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva
Peter, a hard-partying New York City club promoter accustomed to a life of excess, electronic music and endless nights, sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended when a woman he doesn’t know shows up on his doorstep with Arlo, a 10-year-old boy she claims is his son. What started out as an impossible situation soon turns into a mad, fun and tender connection, as unexpected as it is transformative.

Coward
Lukas Dhont (Belgium)
Country(ies) of production: Belgium – France – Netherlands
Cast: Emmanuel Macchia, Valentin Campagne
Surrounded by brutality but bound by tenderness, two World War I soldiers find a fragile sanctuary of love and art amid the shadows of the Belgian trenches. Lukas Dhont’s Coward asks a profound question for a generation sent to war: when the world demands violence, is walking away the truest act of bravery?

Fatherland
Paweł Pawlikowski (Poland)
Country(ies) of production: Poland – Germany – Italy – France
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Anna Madeley
Fatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.

Fjord
Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
Country(ies) of production: Romania – France – Norway – Sweden – Denmark
Cast: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve
The Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, settle in a village in a remote fjord where they strike up a close relationship with their neighbours, the Halbergs. Their children bond despite the differences in their education. When the teenage Elia Gheorghiu turns up at school with bruises on her body, the community asks itself if the traditional education the children receive from their parents might have anything to do with it.

Hope
Na Hong-jin (South Korea)
Country(ies) of production: South Korea
Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon , MIchael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton
Reinforcements have been diverted to battle wildfires and all communication has been cut off. Hope Harbor’s police outpost chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae struggle to defend a village of the elderly, while in the mountains, Sung-ki and the locals who set out to track the beast find themselves hunted instead. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

Josephine
Beth de Araújo (USA)
Country(ies) of production: USA
Cast: Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Mason Reeves
After accidentally witnessing a rape in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, 8-year-old Josephine starts to demonstrate violent and paranoid behaviour. The trauma destabilises her family as her parents seek justice and a way to recover her lost security.

La bola negra
Javier Calvo (Spain), Javier Ambrossi (Spain)
Country(ies) of production: Spain – France
Cast: Guitarricadelafuente , Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close
Story narrating the interconnected stories of three men in three different eras. Three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritence. This is one of Federico García Lorca’s last, unfinished, works.

Le corset / Iron Boy
Louis Clichy (France)
Country(ies) of production: France – Belgium
Voices: Gary Clichy, Rod Paradot, Dimitri Colas, Aurélie Vassort, Brune Moulin, Alexandre Astier, Jean-Pascal Zadi
Iron Boy tells the tale of Christophe, an 11-year-old boy who tries to follow in his father’s steps, helping in their family farm. But everything changes the day he is prescribed an incapacitating iron corset, meaning that he can no longer do the everyday farm chores. However, this sudden change will give Christophe the opportunity to discover new passions like swimming and music, and to make friends who will forever mark his life.

Soudain / All of a Sudden
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Japan)
Country(ies) of production: France – Japan – Germany – Belgium
Cast: Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto
As the director of a care facility for the elderly, Marie-Lou strives to introduce an innovative care philosophy based on listening and respecting residents’ dignity, despite resistance from some members of her staff. Her encounter with Mari, a Japanese theater director battling cancer, will forever change her life. By forming a deep, supportive friendship, the two women join forces in a shared struggle to “make the impossible possible.”

Succederà questa notte / It Will Happen Tonight
Nanni Moretti (Italy)
Country(ies) of production: Italy – France – Spain
Cast: Louis Garrel, Jasmine Trinca
Matteo is playing tennis when a woman in a bride’s dress runs onto the court. It’s Greta. She kicks off her shoes, grabs a racket and invites him to play. For seven years, the woman will never be far from Matteo’s mind. As they follow their paths and parallel lives, fate seems determined to keep them apart. But one day they run into each other again and now, perhaps, their time has come. Will it happen tonight?

Tangles
Leah Nelson (Canada)
Country(ies) of production: Canada – USA
Voices: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston, Beanie Feldstein, Seth Rogen, Samira Wiley
When Alzheimer’s begins to erase her mother’s personality, Sarah leaves her exciting life as an activist and artist in 90’s San Francisco to return to her eccentric family’s conservative small town. Initially confident she can manage the situation, she soon realizes she must accept the harsh, disorienting reality of the disease to become the daughter her family needs.

The Invite
Olivia Wilde (USA)
Country(ies) of production: USA
Cast: Olivia Wilde, Seth Roger, Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton
Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic neighbours, Pina and Hawk, round for dinner, a seemingly innocent evening gives way to confessions, hidden desires and situations that are as awkward as they are funny, putting their relationship to the test.

The Man I Love
Ira Sachs (USA)
Country(ies) of production: USA – France
Cast: Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, Luther Ford, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Tom Sturridge
In the vibrant New York of the late 80s, Jimmy George, a famous underground artist, is experiencing a decisive moment in his life in which, despite everything, beauty and love are still possible.

Wild Horse Nine
Martin McDonagh (United Kingdom)
Country(ies) of production: USA – UK – Chile
Cast: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Mariana di Girolamo, Ailin Salas
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee set out to Easter Island from Santiago, where they are stationed alongside their boss and bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island’s iconic statues, as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris’s newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

Hayden Panettiere and Wladimir Klitschko split in 2018, but it was always clear that there remained love and respect between the two.

Such was the case tonight when former heavyweight champion Klitschko spoke out for the first time about the untimely death of the 36-year-old Heroes actress, with whom he shared daughter Kaya.

“Hayden’s tragic death saddens me deeply,” wrote Klitschko, who lives in Ukraine, in a social media post. “She left this world far too soon. Hayden was, although no longer my partner, an important part of my life and the mother of our daughter, Kaya. She built an incredible career through immense talent, while also facing the darker sides of a very demanding industry. Nothing will erase the times we shared or the place she had in our lives.”

The duo was together on and off from 2008 to 2018. They were engaged in 2013, and in 2014 Kaya was born. Panettiere had been open about her struggles with depression and addiction, the latter of which began when she was given “happy pills” at the age of 15. She got Heroes at 16, and graduated to drinking and occasionally taking opioids.

Kaya’s birth in 2014 brought postpartum depression, which the actress also spoke about publicly.

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Her relationship with Klitschko ended after she began drinking again. “He didn’t want to be around me,” she said. “I didn’t want to be around me. But with the opiates and alcohol I was doing anything to make me feel happy for a moment. Then I’d feel worse than I did before. I was in a cycle of self-destruction.”

In 2018, still battling addiction while shooting Nashville, Panettiere sent Kaya to Ukraine for what she believed to be a visit. It turned out to be an intervention, of sorts.

“I thought she was going over to visit him like she always did,” the actress revealed on Red Table Talk in 2022. “[Kaya] would go back and forth from me in Nashville and Ukraine, and then once she was over there, it was immediately, ‘I want full custody of her,’ which was a shock to me.”

She continued: “It was very upsetting signing those papers to give him full custody. It was like the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever, ever had to do in my life.”

Even after their breakup and Kaya’s move, the trio traveled together and supported each other. In 2022, Panettiere wished her former fiancé a happy birthday on social media, calling him a “wonderful man.”

The appreciation, it seems, is mutual.

“To our daughter Kaya,” Klitschko wrote today, “I will always speak of her mother with respect and make sure she remembers the person she was.”

He ended with, “Rest easy, Hayden. May you find eternal peace.”