Tickets for The Odyssey went on sale last week, and it created quite a stir. The main reason is that only a select number of theaters in the entire world will be playing the film in the director’s preferred format: 70mm IMAX, and supply did not meet demand. However, the film is being released in a ton of other premium formats too, and now, to celebrate, everyone’s favorite movie tracker, Letterboxd, is allowing users to do something it has never done before.
For the first time ever, Letterboxd will allow its users not just to log that they’re seeing The Odyssey, but it will also allow them to log which format of The Odyssey they’re seeing. Here’s one of the film’s stars, Tom Holland, to explain.
To celebrate the forthcoming release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Tom Holland announces a special treat for the Letterboxd community.
The Odyssey is in theaters worldwide July 17. pic.twitter.com/78FG5Z5QJU
— Letterboxd (@letterboxd) June 8, 2026
How, specifically, Letterboxd plans to do this is unclear. Will it have “The Odyssey: 70mm IMAX” or “The Odyssey: 4DX” as individual entries? Will there be a subcategory under The Odyssey to make the distinction? And how will this “digital punch card” be displayed? We don’t know. But, as Holland says, Letterboxd will make that known soon.
Now, if this idea sounds familiar, it’s because it’s happened a few times in recent months. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, for example, advocated for something very similar with the release of their film, Project Hail Mary. That film, like The Odyssey, was released in a ton of premium formats, and the directors helped spread a little checklist fans could fill out if they saw it in those formats. Fans also did this with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Best Picture winner One Battle After Another last year.
But neither of those lists was in Letterboxd itself, which is where many, many film fans prefer to keep track of their viewing habits. So it’s a cool level-up of the idea.
So what formats will be available for The Odyssey? Well, there are a lot. There’s 70mm IMAX (the rarest and preferred version as it’s the first film ever to be shot wholly in this format), 70mm standard, regular IMAX, 35mm, Dolby Vision, 4DX, D-Box, and then lots of different, theater-specific formats like RPX, XD, and others. Basically, you could see The Odyssey probably a dozen times, and each time be slightly different. Which is pretty cool. Find out more about all of them here.
Tickets for all of those premium format screenings of The Odyssey are now on sale. More tickets for other standard formats will go on sale soon.
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NASA’s Hubble space telescope is running out of time. The aging observatory is slowly being dragged down toward Earth and is estimated to reenter through the atmosphere by 2033. NASA could save it, but only if Hubble becomes more affordable.
NASA is currently preparing to extend the lifespan of another Earth-orbiting telescope—the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The agency is launching a rescue mission later this month, aiming to raise Swift’s altitude and shift it into a more stable orbit.
The space agency has been considering a similar reboost mission for the Hubble telescope if it can find a way to lower its operating costs. “It was built in a different era, and it’s more costly to maintain and to get the best science out of it,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director of NASA’s astrophysics division, said during a recent meeting of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee, SpaceNews reported.
Swift launched toward low-Earth orbit on November 20, 2004, to study the most powerful explosions in the cosmos: gamma-ray bursts. In the two decades since it launched, Swift gradually lost altitude due to atmospheric drag and has a 50% chance of an uncontrolled reentry by mid-2026.
To avoid Swift being dragged down low enough to hit Earth’s atmosphere, NASA tapped an Arizona-based startup to develop a spacecraft designed to boost Swift’s orbit. The LINK spacecraft is designed to rendezvous with Swift and nudge the spacecraft to a more stable orbit, thereby extending its lifespan.
“These reboost things are now not just available to us as an agency, but the costs are lower than I think I anticipated,” Domagal-Goldman was quoted as saying during the meeting. “That does make that return on investment more enticing.”
When it comes to Hubble, however, there are other things to consider. “We are open to a reboost of Hubble,” Domagal-Goldman added. “So, we have to first figure out how we’re going to bring down the operations costs.”
NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, using the Space Shuttle Discovery. At the beginning of its mission, the telescope operated at an altitude as high as 360 miles (579 kilometers) in low Earth orbit, but it has slowly descended over the years. Hubble is currently at around 326 miles (525 kilometers) above Earth’s surface, according to NASA.
Between 1993 and 2009, NASA boosted Hubble’s orbit multiple times using its space shuttle servicing missions. More recently, the agency began considering a commercial reboost mission for Hubble.
In 2022, NASA and SpaceX announced a feasibility study to raise Hubble to its initial altitude of 373 miles (600 kilometers), allowing it to remain operational for a few more years. The agency didn’t follow up with its rescue mission, and Hubble is currently at risk of burning up in Earth’s atmosphere within a few years’ time.
Earlier this year, a team of scientists estimated that Hubble could reenter Earth’s atmosphere in 2033. There’s also a 1 in 10 chance that the iconic observatory could come to its fiery demise as early as 2029.
Since its launch, Hubble has transformed our understanding of the cosmos. Using its 94.5-inch-wide (2.5-meter) mirror, the telescope precisely measured the distance to stars and galaxies, allowing scientists to determine the expansion rate of the universe.
Keeping Hubble alive, however, does come at a steep price. During the 2025 fiscal year, the space agency spent $98.8 million on the telescope. NASA has been weighing the cost of extending the telescope’s operations versus its scientific returns and whether it’s time to free up the agency’s resources for new missions.
If a reboost mission is in the cards for Hubble, NASA would first need to find a way to bring down the telescope’s cost of operations so that it can continue to deliver mind-bending images and data for more years to come.
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The nostalgia wave didn’t translate into box office magic for Masters of the Universe, but Amazon isn’t ruling out another attempt at the cartoon-to-live-action formula. This time around, it’s a TV show based on the Hasbro property Jem and the Holograms, but before you roll your eyes and dismiss it outright, consider the team behind it: Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy of Kilter Films, whose other credits include Fallout and Westworld.
However, that still doesn’t answer the question “Who asked for this?” There’s a failed live-action Jem attempt in the not-too-distant past, in the form of the unfortunate 2015 film directed by a pre-Wicked Jon M. Chu.
Deadline‘s story on the new project describes it as “an elevated take on the beloved 1980s series,” but there are no additional details other than the fact that the new Jem series “is joining Prime Video’s growing slate of female-driven YA/coming-of-age content, including recent breakout Off Campus and established hits The Summer I Turned Pretty, We Were Liars, and the Culpables franchise.”
In addition, Kilter Films is aboard Amazon’s anticipated Fourth Wing fantasy adaptation, with Joy set to helm the pilot.
What do you think about a new live-action Jem and the Hologram series? Are you excited, or are you pondering a riff on “truly outrageous” as we speak?
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