Its easier to ride a sandworm than to buy Dune: Part Three IMAX 70mm tickets

Tickets for IMAX 70mm screenings of Dune: Part Three , including early showings, went on sale on Aug.

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What followed was chaos.

SEE ALSO: 'The Odyssey' has made IMAX 70mm a status symbol On social media, fans scrambling to buy tickets online lamented that sites like Fandango and AMC were crashing.

If you were actually able to make it onto a site, chances are you were met with a virtual queue with a long wait time, as if you were waiting to snag Taylor Swift concert tickets on Ticketmaster instead of plan a night at the movies.

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In a statement on X , AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron addressed the "crushing volume" that caused AMC's online ticketing systems to glitch, saying that ticketing traffic "reached levels approximately three times higher than what we experienced during the Spider-Man: Brand New Day ticket launch, which itself followed strong advance sales for The Odyssey ticket launch before that." Dune: Part Three ticket pandemonium wasn't just online.

At New York City's Lincoln Square AMC location, home to one of the largest IMAX screens in the U.S., a line to buy IMAX 70mm Dune: Part Three tickets wrapped around the block, with people camping out beforehand.

According to social media users, someone in line even bought 80 tickets .