The demand for Christopher Nolan's next film appears to be through the roof. AMC Theaters began selling tickets for The Odyssey, which hits theaters July 17, on its mobile app today.

India, June 4 -- AMC Theatres is experiencing a widespread outage today. Users are reporting on Downdetector indicated spike activity starting around 12:06 PM EDT. Users are complaining of the app crash triggered by a massive surge in traffic from fans attempting to buy pre-sale tickets for the upcoming Supergirl movie.

Moviegoers are scrambling to reserve their seats for “The Odyssey,” and the mad dash to see what Christopher Nolan has cooked up is hitting some unexpected hurdles. Demand for Imax and other premium large format screenings of the adventure epic appears to be so high that AMC’s ticketing app paused briefly.

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. saw the highest ever downloads of its AMC Theatres app Sunday, boosted by a blockbuster opening weekend for the “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” movies, according to third-party data from Apptopia. The movie theater chain ...