Posted on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 by Angie Han
If you’re already holding a ticket for your local IMAX 3D midnight screening of The Avengers, odds are you don’t need yet another reason to get pumped for the movie. But here’s something else to look forward to anyway: Fans who attend the 12:01 show will each receive a special limited-edition poster, which you can see after the jump.
Personally, though, I’m more impressed by the new batch of Mondo posters that’ll be going on sale this week. Following last week’s debut of Olly Moss‘ Black Widow and Tom Whalen‘s Hawkeye, the company has just unveiled four more for Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America, and Thor, designed by four different artists. Hit the jump for a peek, as well as details on pricing and availability.
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Posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 by Angie Han
After months — really years — of waiting, The Hunger Games are almost here. And with positive early buzz (including Germain’s glowing review) just adding to the hype, the Lionsgate marketing machine is heading into the final push with yet another Hunger Games clip. Following a previously released scene which saw Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) making his very public move on Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), the new clip explores the bond between longtime pals Katniss and Gale (Liam Hemsworth) as they say their farewells before she heads into the Games. Watch it after the jump.
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Posted on Monday, March 12th, 2012 by Angie Han
Though Skyfall stars some familiar faces, including Judi Dench and, of course, Daniel Craig, the cast list also includes many more that we don’t know so much about. Some fresh info has just dropped on some of those franchise newcomers — the characters played by Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, and Ola Rapace, to be specific. After the jump, check out new photos of Bardem in villain mode, and read up on details about what Harris and Rapace will be doing in the film.
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I have yet to get the Blu-ray release of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (it comes out on April 17th, available for preorder for 51% off on Amazon) but it appears that director Brad Bird decided to not include the expanded IMAX footage in the home video transfer.
For those of you who didn’t know, the IMAX release of this film (and other films like the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises) included footage shot with on 70 mm IMAX film, 15 perforations per frame. The quality of those sequences, almost a half hour of the total film, is amazingly vivid.And because they were shot on IMAX cameras, those segments filled up the whole IMAX screen a 1.44:1 aspect ratio (or just a little wider than the old standard definition/full frame square).
The blu-ray releases of The Dark Knight, Tron: Legacy and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen have featured expanded aspect ratios in the IMAX sequences — which means that the aspect ratio changes from the widescreen 2:35:1 to fit your entire 16:9 television during the IMAX shot sequences. I’ve always enjoyed that we get to see a little bit more of these sequences. Bird decided against this with the home video release of MI4, sticking with a 2.40:1 aspect ratio for the entire film.
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Posted on Friday, March 9th, 2012 by Angie Han
Two films we’ve been looking forward to will be making an even bigger splash than we had anticipated. The IMAX Corporation has announced that Tim Burton‘s Frankenweenie and Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus will each be getting IMAX 3D releases, starting on the same day as their regular theatrical runs. Though neither film was shot in IMAX, they’re both being digitally re-mastered into the IMAX format. More details after the jump.
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As I walked into Andrew Stanton‘s temporary Arizona villa to speak with him about his new movie John Carter, I was probably the most nervous I’d been in a while. Stanton has only directed two films – Finding Nemo and Wall-E - but they’re two of my favorites, and he’s partially responsible for much of what makes Pixar films so successful. Suffice to say, his talent is intimidating.
For his new movie, which opens Friday, Stanton used that talent to go way out of his comfort zone as a director. He not only tackled live-action for the first time in his career, he brought to life a property he’s been a fan of since his teenage years. John Carter is more than just a big budget epic for Andrew Stanton, it’s a lifelong dream.
We spoke a bit about that as well as the expectations that come with success, his working relationship with star Taylor Kitsch, what the future holds for a director and much more. Check out the video interview after the jump. Read More »
How confident is Disney that fans are going to love the world and story director Andrew Stanton has created with his sci-fi, fantasy epic John Carter? They want to send Los Angeles area /Film readers to see it, in IMAX 3D, for free.
The screening takes place 7:30 p.m. Monday March 5 at the AMC Universal CityWalk Stadium 19, which is one of only two true IMAX screens in Los Angeles. How can you go? Simple. You RSVP after the jump. Read More »
Briefly: It’s a regular thing to see action and ‘event’ films upscaled for presentation in IMAX theaters, and so we shouldn’t be surprised to learn that Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film, will be digitally remastered to show in IMAX when the film hits on Oct. 26 (internationally) and Nov. 9 in the US.
Note that director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins did not shoot the film with IMAX cameras, so this won’t quite be a Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol-style spectacle. Still, Bond fans who want to see the film on the largest possible screen can now start planning a trip to the nearest IMAX theater.
That news came out during today’s earnings conference call with the company, during which Imax CEO Richard Gelfond said the company would do more pre-release exclusive bookings. “(MI4) got the attention of exhibitors and studios, and we believe we will participate in more early release windows in the future.” The company will also begin to show more films in China going forward. [THR]
