Browsing: IMAX

For a cinematic experience that is truly larger than life, you won’t find many theater formats that rival IMAX. IMAX movies are among the biggest and loudest you’ll ever watch. The entire experience is meant to be premium, a step above what you’ll find in a typical screening. Few movies are truly made for IMAX,…

It’s a less-cinematic experience that’s been the highlight of many museum field trips.

Meta is renewing its quest to make virtual reality a thing. At Connect on Wednesday, the company announced Meta VR Glasses, its newest entry into the VR market. These glasses actually seem quite promising given their substantially lighter form factor and a host of new entertainment integrations — including (allegedly) IMAX compatibility.

IMAX has become somewhat of a household name of late, thanks to the virality of 70mm presentations like The Odyssey and Dune: Part Three. But you may have noticed that the company has expanded its footprint beyond giant cinema screens with a designation for at home-viewing, as well. On Disney+, for instance, a growing number…

In the wake of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, cinephiles are in a desperate search for the biggest, most vibrant theaters available. The trend is the high-water mark of the industry’s shift towards premium formats. But with only a select few theaters capable of playing IMAX’s coveted 70mm film format, many filmgoers are debating the importance of…

True, traditional IMAX filmmaking is not for novices. The entire process is time consuming, not to mention expensive. Most filmmakers aren’t making their next movie using 70mm IMAX film, and if there’s one point to blame, it’s probably to do with the camera.

The film world is in the thick of IMAX fever. With Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey selling out the company’s exclusive screens months in advance, debates around aspect ratios, film gauges and frame rates have thrust themselves to the forefront of the proverbial watercooler. But for your average moviegoer, the newfound cultural obsession with film formatting may come as…