This weekend Michael Bay‘s Transformers: Age of Extinction will be heading into IMAX 3D theaters and Bay has already taken to his blog saying it’s “the first movie in the world to shoot with the new IMAX digital 3D camera” and that “60 percent of the movie opens up and fills the whole IMAX screen”. What he doesn’t say is whether or not he’s talking the fake IMAX screens or the full, but considering my screening of the film isn’t at the local, full-sized IMAX theater, but instead a smaller, Cinemark IMAX leads me to believe it’s only opening to about 1.85 or 1.77 at most. There is one film, however, you can look forward to getting the full IMAX experience.
In an interview with Collider, Greg Foster, President of IMAX Entertainment, revealed Christopher Nolan‘s Interstellar will be screened on 70mm film stock across the globe. The catch? There are only about 50 theaters globally that can do such a thing… and I’m pretty sure the Boeing IMAX Theater here in Seattle remains one of those theaters. I know we saw The Dark Knight Rises on film in that theater and they seem committed to how a filmmaker intends for their film to be seen.
Interstellar hits theaters on November 7.
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