Pakistan, June 18 -- BFI Imax, the UK's largest screen, has sold 28,000 tickets for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in 24 hours, breaking first day on sale records for the venue with a total gross of £750,000.

This follows four opening weekend screenings that had previously sold out in under an hour a year in advance, including a special midnight showing to kickstart a weekend of round-the-clock screenings.

The film's first day takings have leapfrogged Dune: Part Two, which took £366,000 gross in the first 24 hours of on sale at the venue and Nolan's Oppenheimer, which took £254,000 gross in the same timeframe.

Starry epic The Odyssey, the first feature to be shot entirely on IMAX 70mm with IMAX cameras, opens on July 17...