Ever since THE DARK KNIGHT gave audiences a taste of a superhero movie with footage filmed for a larger-than-usual format, the IMAX brand has moved out of museums and into the multiplex. Now if you want to see a movie with IMAX footage, you can look to titles like MUFASA: THE LION KING and, at some locations, NOSFERATU.
Even more movies are formatted for IMAX, so that there's a new IMAX movie in theaters multiple times a year. If you're looking for IMAX movie showtimes and other info about seeing IMAX movies, we're here to help!
A Brief History of IMAX
IMAX was born in the 1970s. The company develops both theater technology and film-capture systems. A movie might be created with IMAX cameras. Christopher Nolan uses these extensively, as does DUNE director Denis Villeneuve. Even movies filmed for IMAX can be projected in a non-IMAX theater.
A few IMAX theaters offer 70mm film projection, which can create an amazing viewing experience. (This was positioned as the ideal way to see OPPENHEIMER.) There are only a handful of those theaters in the United States, however. And there are still some IMAX theaters at museums which offer large-format film projection but do not show commercially-released movies.
New IMAX Movies This Season
These new movies will play on IMAX screens at participating Cinemark theaters.
Wolf Man
From Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling modern monster tale The Invisible Man, comes a terrifying new lupine nightmare: Wolf Man. Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Emmy winner Julia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth; Hullraisers, Coma). But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without. Read more about WOLF MAN here.
A24 x IMAX Present: Talk To Me
Possession goes viral in IMAX. When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Companion
New Line Cinema—the studio that brought you “The Notebook”—and the unhinged creators of “Barbarian” cordially invite you to experience a new kind of love story. Written and directed by Drew Hancock (“My Dead Ex,” “Suburgatory”), “Companion” stars Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets,” “The Boogeyman”), Jack Quaid (“The Boys,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”), Lukas Gage (“Smile 2,” “Dead Boy Detectives”), Megan Suri (“Never Have I Ever,” “It Lives Inside”), Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows,” “Blue Beetle”) and Rupert Friend (“High Desert,” “Asteroid City”). The film is produced by the filmmakers behind “Barbarian”—Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Zach Cregger and Roy Lee.
Captain America: Brave New World IMAX Fan Event
See the new Captain America movie first — and see it IMAX! Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
Why Doesn't Every Movie Use IMAX?
IMAX cameras create amazing images but they can be bulky and expensive. The film-based IMAX cameras, which Christopher Nolan prefers, are also quite loud, which has always made them difficult to use for intimate scenes. New tech was developed to make OPPENHEIMER easier to capture entirely with IMAX film cameras, for example, and perhaps we'll see other filmmakers taking advantage of it.
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All images courtesy of IMAX.