On top of that, director Matt Reeves tweeted out that he'd finished quality control checking his movie in IMAX writing that it: “Looked and sounded so incredible. What a beautiful, immersive format.” So, definitely IMAX then.
With its bruising onslaught of fight sequences and chases that span the highs and lows of the crime-infested Gotham City, The Batman is tailor-made for the IMAX format.
You're also literally seeing more of the movie thanks to the aspect ratio. Where most movie theater screens are 16:9, a widescreen format that tends to cut off the top and bottom of the frame, IMAX is 1.43:1, more closely representing a square that allows for a larger picture from top to bottom.
No, The Dark Knight was the first Batman film to be shot on IMAX film. Despite this, Batman Begins was shown in IMAX theaters, just like Superman Returns was a year later and that film wasn't shot on IMAX either.
IMAX theatres create a more immersive viewing experience with the massive screen, which delivers up to 40 per cent more imagery due to its high-resolution 3D technology. The IMAX theatre itself is also designed with steep seating to allow for an unobstructed view of the screen from any place.
Some IMAX theaters do use traditional 3D with smaller glasses, so you'll want to contact your local IMAX theaters to see whether they use the larger glasses or not. For many people who wear glasses, bigger truly is better. Forget about those cheap plastic glasses the theater provides you.
An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix in "Joker: Folie à Deux." Warner Bros. Imax CEO Richard Gelfond told BI "Joker: Folie à Deux" will be shown in Imax 70mm. The "Joker" sequel joins recent hits like "Oppenheimer" and "Dune: Part Two" as titles receiving this unique release.
Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw were the co-founders of what would be named the IMAX Corporation (founded in September 1967 as Multiscreen Corporation, Ltd.), and they developed the first IMAX cinema projection standards in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Canada.
Who owns Imax? Imax (NYSE: IMAX) is owned by 76.24% institutional shareholders, 54.78% Imax insiders, and 0.00% retail investors. Kevin Douglas is the largest individual Imax shareholder, owning 25.44M shares representing 48.35% of the company. Kevin Douglas's Imax shares are currently valued at $431.49M.
Renowned director Christopher Nolan prefers to sit near the front, in the middle of the third row for cinemascope ratio, and slightly behind the center line for IMAX theaters. Experts suggest sitting in the center of the room, aligned with the screen, to centralize your field of vision and prevent strain.
Well for starters, they didn't shoot on film – The Batman was shot digitally. In a story primarily operating within the dark shadows of Gotham's underbelly, shooting digitally on the ARRI Alexa-LF became a necessary requirement to capture such low-light environments.
For many critics, “The Batman” seems to be a cross between “Saw,” “Seven” and “Zodiac.” It is a film that dabbles in several genres: horror, thriller, noir, but feels constrained by its PG-13 rating.
The Digital Cinema IMAX digital presentation has been created from 8k scans of the original film elements, graded specifically for the high contrast dual-projector IMAX digital projectors, before being scaled to 4K resolution and packaged with the uncompressed IMAX 5.0 sound mix of the film.
When the National Air and Space Museum opened its doors in July 1976, it featured in its theater a film produced specifically for the Museum called To Fly in a large format called IMAX. The Canadian-designed IMAX (Image MAXimum) format was created by Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw.
Rich Gelfond is the 68-year-old CEO of IMAX — best known for designing theater projection systems for some of the largest video resolution formats in the world.
Following the success of Oppenheimer and Dune Part Two, Joker 2 will be screened in 70mm, IMAX CEO confirms. “Joker: Folie à Deux” will be shown in IMAX 70mm theaters, the company's CEO Richard Gelfond told Business Insider at CinemaCon hours before Warner Bros.
The large scale of the IMAX experience and the duration of films are likely to overstimulate and unsettle babies and small children. For this reason, we strongly recommend that children aged 5 and under do not attend screenings of films designed for adult audiences.
The larger the surface area of a piece of film, the more photographic information it will contain. This means that an Imax image resolves much more detail and has very little visible film grain. Basically, Imax footage will look significantly cleaner and higher quality.
