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IMAX

Timothee Chalamet Austin Butler Dune: Part Two
Scott Mendelson • March 4, 2024

It’s Not the Movies, It’s Imax

The opening weekend success of ‘Dune: Part Two’ suggests that the future of theatrical relies, in part, on studios marketing films as requiring a premium large format experience.
Matthew Belloni • January 5, 2024
24 Surefire, 100 Percent Probable Hollywood Predictions for 2024 (Part 1)
Jenna Ortega at the photo call for "Wednesday" held at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on April 29, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Declining budgets, a potential Imax sale, more agency consolidation, a Netflix film reckoning, Fox’s humbling, Jenna Ortega’s rise and exit, and other hypotheses for another wild year in the entertainment business.
Matthew Belloni • June 1, 2023
The Tom Cruise vs ‘Oppenheimer’ Movie Theater Smackdown
Mission 7, Tom Cruise’s nearly $300 million-budgeted baby, is getting bumped from IMAX screens.
Cruise has been forcefully pushing exhibitors to put ‘Mission: Impossible’ ahead of Chris Nolan’s film on large-format screens after he lost three weeks of IMAX exclusivity in the first truly competitive summer for blockbusters since Covid.
IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond in 2019
Matthew Belloni • September 12, 2021
“IMAX is Going to be More Important in a Post-Pandemic World”: My Chat with Rich Gelfond
A conversation with the longtime IMAX C.E.O. about surviving Covid, the success of 'Shang-Chi,' David Zaslav, and the day-and-date dilemma.