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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Sets Rerelease in Imax to Promote Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Sequel – Hollywood Reporter
- Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Sets Rerelease in Imax to Promote Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Sequel Hollywood Reporter
- Report: Warner Bros. Hopes Your Desire for Dune 2 Will Make You See Tenet Gizmodo
- Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Returning to Movie Theaters, Including 70mm Imax Screens Variety
- Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Returning to Cinemas, ‘Dune: Part Two’ teased. – Deadline Deadline
- Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros Set Up ‘Tenet’ Theatrical Re-Release — World of Reel Jordan Ruimy
‘Wonka’ Sweet With $43M Overseas Debut; ’Migration’ Swoops Into First Markets; IMAX Tops $1B Global For 2023 – International Box Office – Deadline
- ‘Wonka’ Sweet With $43M Overseas Debut; ’Migration’ Swoops Into First Markets; IMAX Tops $1B Global For 2023 – International Box Office Deadline
- Timothée Chalamet Worried ‘Wonka’ Would Be a ‘Cynical Cash Grab’: I’m ‘Very Protective’ Over the Original Character Yahoo Entertainment
- Wonka review – Timothée Chalamet delights in fizzing Chocolate Factory prequel The Guardian
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‘Stop Making Sense’ 40th Anniversary TIFF Screening Becomes Top Grossing Imax Live Event – Deadline
- ‘Stop Making Sense’ 40th Anniversary TIFF Screening Becomes Top Grossing Imax Live Event Deadline
- Talking Heads Reunite for Restored ‘Stop Making Sense’ The New York Times
- David Byrne Elaborates on the State of Talking Heads: ‘We Get Along OK’ American Songwriter
- Talking Heads Concert Film ‘Stop Making Sense’ Becomes Imax’s Highest-Grossing Live Event Variety
- Talking Heads Concert Film ‘Stop Making Sense’ Becomes Biggest Imax Live Event Screening Ever Hollywood Reporter
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Win Free Tickets to Our Early ‘Blue Beetle’ IMAX Screening With Director Angel Manuel Soto Q&A – Collider
- Win Free Tickets to Our Early ‘Blue Beetle’ IMAX Screening With Director Angel Manuel Soto Q&A Collider
- ‘Blue Beetle’ Reactions: Critics ‘Happy to Report That It’s a Good Time at the Movies’ Yahoo Entertainment
- Blue Beetle Should Borrow Something From Young Justice CBR – Comic Book Resources
- EXCLUSIVE: Xolo Maridueñ opens up about his Jaime Reyes’ role in DC’s Blue Beetle PINKVILLA
- Blue Beetle: Xolo Maridueña Leaps Right Off the Page in New Featurette (Exclusive) ComicBook.com
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‘Overwhelming’: Indy IMAX theater screens Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ on 70 mm film, the way the director intended – FOX 59 Indianapolis
- ‘Overwhelming’: Indy IMAX theater screens Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ on 70 mm film, the way the director intended FOX 59 Indianapolis
- What is IMAX and why should you watch Oppenheimer on an IMAX 70mm screen? Digital Camera World
- Only 19 US theaters can show ‘Oppenheimer’ as director intended. Georgia has one of them Yahoo Entertainment
- Oppenheimer’s 3-Hour Runtime – When You Can Take A Bathroom Break Screen Rant
- Film fans flock to see “Oppenheimer” in Sacramento, home to one of the few IMAX 70mm theaters CBS Sacramento
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Disney’s ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Cleared for December Release in China
Chinese authorities have notified
Walt Disney Co.
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that “Avatar: The Way Of Water” will be released in China on Dec. 16, the same day it is slated to be released globally, according to people familiar with the matter.
Executives at Disney and at movie-theater chains had been closely watching for a decision from Chinese censors on the movie, director
James Cameron
‘s sequel to the 2009 science- fiction epic. It will be distributed by Disney-owned 20th Century Studios.
“This is fantastic news for Disney, for
James Cameron
and for the movie, because the potential box office from China is enormous,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, said in an interview. “This may be the pivotal moment that indicates that ‘Way of Water’ will earn enough money to justify further installments of the Avatar franchise.”
The last seven superhero films produced by Marvel Studios, Disney’s most-profitable film studio over the past decade, haven’t received release dates in the crucial China market, denting the global box-office gross.
In July, for example, Disney cited the lack of a China release for “Thor: Love and Thunder,” the fourth solo film featuring Chris Hemsworth’s Thor character from the popular Avengers superhero team, as one reason the movie underperformed at the international box office.
Disney and other Hollywood studios have run up against Chinese censors in recent years, especially when their movies deal with sensitive political themes or when actors or directors make statements that Chinese authorities find objectionable.
Two recent Marvel films were blocked from release in China after comments that the Chinese government viewed as insulting, made by the director of one movie and a star actor of the other, were unearthed and circulated in the country.
While Disney hasn’t revealed the “Avatar” sequel’s budget, Mr. Cameron, the director, said in a recent interview in GQ magazine that the “Avatar” sequel was “the worst business case in movie history” and that it would have to be the third- or fourth-highest-grossing film in history just to break even. Disney has said that it plans to make five Avatar movies in total.
The first Avatar movie from 2009 grossed nearly $2.9 billion worldwide, with $259 million of that total coming from China, making it the highest-grossing movie of all time. It narrowly edged out Marvel’s “Avengers: Endgame” after a September 2022 rerelease of the movie added $73 million in ticket sales, according to Comscore, a box-office tracker.
It sparked a boom in multiplex construction in China, as Chinese audiences flocked to see the film in 3-D and government authorities sought to encourage consumers to spend more money in shopping centers.
Theaters saw lines for the first “Avatar” up to six hours long, and scalpers sold tickets for $100 apiece, according to
Richard Gelfond,
chief executive of the movie technology company
IMAX Corp.
In Beijing, Chinese authorities closed an IMAX theater so high- ranking party members could watch it at a private screening, he said. Before the 2009 movie, IMAX had 14 screens in China, but now has 800, with 200 more contracted to be built.
“Everything changed after ‘Avatar,’” Mr. Gelfond said. “It was really the match that lit the entire movie industry” in China.
Write to Robbie Whelan at robbie.whelan@wsj.com
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Why Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Became the First Horror Movie Shot With Imax Cameras
When director Jordan Peele was in discussions about his box office hit “Nope,” he knew one thing: He wanted the film to be a vast spectacle. His first step was calling on cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema to work with him on what he calls “my most ambitious film to date. I knew Hoyte was the man.”
The UFO drama/thriller stars Daniel Kaluuya as a horse wrangler, who along with his sister Keke Palmer, starts having UFO sightings. Along with Brandon Perra as Angel, the trio attempt to capture the object on film.
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Hoytema was asked to think about how he would capture a UFO, and what cameras he would choose. Hoytema, a frequent collaborator with Christopher Nolan, says, “I thought Imax was the best medium to do it on.”
Hoytema says from the start, Peele was committed to the big screen and how best audiences experience the world he created on the big screen. “For me, Imax is the most visceral of formats.”
Peele and the team visited Imax HQ in Playa Vista along with Hoytema to set up camera tests.
The Imax experience isn’t solely about the larger screen experience and cameras — it was also about delivering a pristine frame to audiences. Peele shot using Kodak film and chose the 1.43:1 aspect ratio, specially created for Imax, that enabled the vast landscape, UFO imagery and horseriding scenes to show 40% more picture.
Once Peele started testing the cameras, Bruce Markoe, head of post production at Imax says, “That got the gears turning on how to best use the cameras in shooting the movie.”
The opening moments of the film are a visual ride, from a blood-soaked chimp inside a TV studio to Keith David on a horse as debris starts falling from the sky. Hoytema and Peele knew the sharp resolution would bring audiences into this world.
Imax cameras weren’t just used for shooting — Peele also put an Imax camera onscreen. Michael Wincott, who plays Holst, is a cinematographer who joins the siblings in their attempt to capture the UFO sightings on celluloid. Those scenes show the old-fashioned Imax MK II cameras.
Wincott, Hoytema says, would shadow him learning how to use cameras, but also talked around lighting and the technical nitty-gritty of cinematography to ensure when he was using the hand-operated camera on screen, he was doing so with accuracy.
Peele and Hoytema tested their footage frequently. He says, “They did many reviews at our Imax City Walk theater at Universal Studios during post-production, and they did reviews at our Imax HQ. It really enabled them to refine how the movie was going to look and play and they optimized it for the format.”
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“Nope” marked the first time the Imax format had been used for the horror genre, and Markoe says Peele understood how to use it creatively. “He did a shot in the movie where the camera pushes through behind the character, as he’s looking out a window. It starts small and as the camera pushes in, it goes through the window to the distance and it opens up. He really thought about how to shoot those sequences and how to take advantage of the larger aspect ratio.
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NASA’s Animation of $700 Quintillion Asteroid Is an IMAX Movie
As NASA prepares to send a probe to Psyche 16—a metallic asteroid orbiting the Sun approximately 371 million miles from Earth—the space agency continues to find ways to ramp up public interest in the mission. Something that’s easy to do as Bloomberg estimates the rock’s worth about $700 quintillion. In the video below NASA offers a tantalizingly close-up animation of the asteroid, which feels a lot like an IMAX movie.
NASA recently posted the above mission animation to its YouTube channel. The space agency plans to send its eponymous Psyche probe in 2022. Although the asteroid is so distant from Earth it won’t arrive until 2026. (Psyche’s distance from Earth is constantly changing, but it’ll be closest to Earth in 2026.)
NASA
The animation from NASA shows how Psyche will approach the 140-mile-wide asteroid. We watch as the spacecraft arrives at the rock and then flies through its canyons like a mellow pod racer. Once again: shoutout to the first-person point of view that makes the video feel like a Disneyland simulator ride.
Toward the end of Psyche’s pass over the asteroid NASA reveals hunks of smooth rock studded with what appears to be gold. It’s a visual nod to Psyche likely containing a huge amount of the precious metal. Along with enough stores of iron, nickel, and possibly even platinum to make everyone on Earth a billionaire. And yes, we know the economics of actually bringing Psyche to Earth would possibly change that.
NASA
Perhaps the coolest aspect of Psyche 16, aside from the dreams of avarice it inspires, is the hypothesis that the metallic asteroid may be the core of a former planet. If that’s true it would mean Psyche will offer a chance to explore a planet core for the first time ever. And allow us to gain better insight into just how much precious metal is in our own planet’s innards.
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