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AMC Website Overwhelmed by Demand as 'The Odyssey' Tickets Go on Sale, Causing Hour-Long Queues

AMC Ticket Wait Times for Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Drop From 60 Minutes to 8 Minutes After Initial Surge

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Dessi Gomez, Anthony D'Alessandro

4d ago· 2 min readenNews

Summary

Tickets for Christopher Nolan's $250M adaptation of 'The Odyssey' went on sale for Premium Large Format showings, causing AMC ticketing sites to experience wait times of up to an hour, which later dropped to around eight minutes. Unlike the 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens ticket sales that caused site crashes, modern systems handle extreme demand with queue wait times instead of crashes.

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Deadline has confirmed that the wait on AMC sites was long as an hour and has now dwindled to around eight minutes, per sources.
Back in the old days in 2015, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens first went on sale, AMC and other ticketing sites would experience a crash.
Nowadays, what happens in times of extreme demand is th
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Deadline has confirmed that the wait on AMC sites was long as an hour and has now dwindled to around eight minutes, per sources.

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