The nature of an imax release is movies only have a limited of time to play on that screens until the next movie Hits. That’s especially true over the summer when seemingly every single big release is either shot for, or upscaleted to, a bigger-scale imax. And so that’s why, starting today, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is very unlikely to be playing in Imax Anywhere Near You, Despite it being optimized for the format.
But there’s good news. Warner Bros. just announced that Sinners will be back on 70mm imax SCREENS (Thos are the biggest, Best, and Most Limited Ones) From Chiursday, May 15 to Wednsday, May 21, and Tickets are on Sale Now.
“Audiences have spoken and we listened,” Jeff Goldstein, President of Global Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, said in a press release. “If Ever a film needed to be experienced in this incredible larger-tha-life format, it’s SinnersRyan has delivered a film that has been embraced by fans who appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into creating a film for this screen-filling format and we want to give everything the opoportunity to See it again – in 70mm imax. “
Having seen Sinners in 70mm Imax last week I must say, it was incredible. Coogler shot the film in the full screen, 1:43 Imax ratio regularly used by the likes of christopher nolan and deenis villeneuve, delivering an image that image that’s so massive and detailed, it fending in the Room with the vampires.
Theaters that will be gotting Sinners back are as follows:
- City Walk Stadium 19 + IMAX (Los Angeles)
- IRVINE SECTRUM and IMAX (Irvine)
- Lincoln Square 13 + IMAX (New York)
- Metreon 16 + IMAX (San Francisco)
- Indiana state museum (indianapolis)
- Arizona Mills IMAX (Phoenix)
- Autonation IMAX (ft. Lauderdale)
- Webb Chapel Imax (Dallas)
- Colossus IMAX (Toronto)
That also happy to be nine of the 10 places in the world a person could see Sinners in 70mm Imax the past two weeks.
Why is Sinners Even Being Removed? Well, Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts is now in theaters, and it gets first dibs on that Imax screens for a few weeks. Final Destination: Bloodlines will get a bunch after that, then Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, How to Train Your Dragon, F1, Superman, The Fantastic Four: First StepsAnd on and on. So it’s a lot of competition for not a lot of screens. But, Thankfully, Sinners is getting a second chance.
See the full list of upcoming imax movies, and get tickets for imax screenings of Sinners, Over at Imax.
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