So you want to see “The Odyssey” in glorious IMAX 70mm? Well, so does everybody else.

For the first time in cinema history, Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan shot the entire film using IMAX film cameras. There’s only one screen at one theater in New York City that can show the movie in its full aspect ratio: AMC Lincoln Square 13 on the Upper West Side. The screen is 75.6 feet high and 101 feet wide — just a little bit smaller than the Lincoln Memorial.

But nearly every seat for each of its IMAX 70mm showings is sold out through Aug. 19, according to the theater’s website. Even showings at 6 a.m. and 2 a.m. are booked.

“ It's one of the few places in the world you can see it literally the way Nolan shot it, and as some people say, ‘the way Nolan intended,’” said Tessa Senders, who moderates the r/NYCMovies forum on Reddit.

But film buffs looking to score tickets don’t have much quality information to rely on. AMC does not announce when it will drop new batches of tickets, leading to a frenzy of online sleuthing and fake offers from scammers.

An AMC representative did not respond to a request for comment.

In the absence of official guidance, here's a Gothamist guide to the best ways to get real, authentic tickets to the summer blockbuster.

Online forums

There’s a whole subculture of movie buffs who’ve been singing the praises of IMAX 70mm film for years. “The Odyssey” is their Super Bowl. Joining those forums is a reliable way to get intel on a new batch of tickets.

They tend to post in various Reddit and Discord threads when they notice an unannounced AMC ticket drop. “ We have so many users, and so somebody basically is bound to see these tickets drop, and then people report that they've become available,” said Senders of r/NYCMovies.

Some Reddit users will also post when they cancel their tickets to give others a head-start on nabbing their seats. There’s an ongoing Reddit thread where users will propose swaps or try to sell the tickets they can’t use — but Senders said beware of scammers.

“We've had a huge influx of scammers, more than I've ever seen for honestly anything,” she said. “ You ban them, and then they make other fake accounts and with new usernames.”

There are also public channels on Discord, like “IMAX Syndicate,” where users post when they see new drops. It’s a matter of seeing a post and acting quickly.

Alert apps

There are a few apps that can send push alerts when new tickets become available. The official AMC mobile app has a “remind me” feature – though online reviews indicate it’s not always reliable. Again, AMC did not respond to a request for comment.

You can also try notification apps like SeatDrop, a free site that tracks when previously taken seats become available for sold-out showings, like when somebody cancels their ticket. You can opt to get text messages when select seats or a seat from an entire row become newly available — but this requires you to select a specific showing of “The Odyssey.”

Data shared by SeatDrop shows 50% of cancellations happen in the 12 hours before a showing, with a peak in the final hour before the movie.

AMC kiosk

Some film die-hards believe the ticket kiosks at the theater refresh more quickly than online, and will stake out the terminals before a showing they want to attend.

That’s what Ida Pourarian of Ashburn, Virginia, was doing in the lobby of AMC Lincoln Square Sunday before the 10 p.m. showing of “The Odyssey.” Pourarian, 19, said she was continuously refreshing the page when, like Odysseus, she was aided by divine intervention.

“A random person came up to me and just gave me a ticket without saying anything, and then he just left,” she said. “I was just like, ‘Whoa. Thank you.’”

Pourarian said she saw the movie five times on her weekend trip to New York, getting tickets through a combination of refreshing the AMC app, staking out the kiosk, and the kindness of the mysterious stranger.

“ The first watch is just merely not enough,” she said. “The film is 100% worth it.”

Just wait

“The Odyssey” has only been out for a week and the mania is still at its apex. Cinephiles in New York City and across the country are competing for seats in AMC Lincoln Square’s roughly 400-seat IMAX theater.

The movie is a massive box office hit – it made $124 million opening weekend. Showings will extend deep into the summer and likely into the fall.

Senders said the next major IMAX movie that will compete for screen time is “Dune: Part Three,” which comes out in December. “ I think they're going extend [“The Odyssey”] as long as possible,” she said.

Even after that, Senders said theaters often schedule stand-alone showings for popular IMAX movies, like last year’s “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another.”

“ We've seen them bring these movies back even when they, quote-unquote, ‘leave the theater,’” she said. “There's no way they don't bring it back before awards season rolls around.”