Following the worldwide success of Oppenheimer and Dune: Half Two, Imax is wanting ahead to its largest ever “filmed for Imax” slate in 2025, together with at the least 14 titles presently taking pictures with Imax movie or Imax-certified digital cameras, that are due for launch subsequent 12 months.
The corporate mentioned right now that the 2025 slate greater than doubles any earlier 12 months in its historical past, as Hollywood and abroad filmmakers and studios more and more create for its platform. (Scroll down for the total 2025 roster.)
The rise in Imax-focused manufacturing follows a run of historic field workplace success for movies shot with its proprietary cameras regardless of its practically 1,700 industrial places accounting for lower than 1% of whole screens worldwide.
Current highlights embrace over 20% of the worldwide field workplace ($190M+) on Common’s Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan shot the Oscar winner fully with Imax movie cameras. It’s the fifth highest grossing Imax film of all time.
On Warner Bros/Legendary’s Dune: Half Two, shot fully with Imax-certified digital cameras, Imax delivered 21% of the worldwide field workplace ($145M+).
Which means, as Imax CEO Wealthy Gelfond enthused right now, one in 5 tickets to every of these movies was purchased in Imax. “We at all times knew Imax was a really worthwhile proposition to audiences,” he mentioned, “It took longer than we had hoped for it to spill out in a dramatic manner.”
Gelfond famous, “Imax is changing into as a lot about excellence in manufacturing as it’s presentation of the most important blockbuster filmmaking. Fairly merely, audiences get that in case you see a film filmed for Imax in Imax, you’re getting one of the best, most immersive cinematic expertise cash should purchase, which is why we’re driving an enormous share of the worldwide field workplace on these titles.”
Imax can be creating and finalizing the rollout of 4 next-generation 15/65mm movie cameras and is on monitor to beta check early prototypes by August 2024, anticipating the brand new cameras to enter manufacturing by the top of the 12 months.
Imax has tapped such filmmakers and cinematographers as Nolan, Jordan Peele and Hoyte van Hoytema to establish new specs and options for the prototype.
As well as, upcoming movies working with Imax-certified digital cameras embrace Joseph Kosinski’s Method One venture, Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux (together with a choose run in 70mm Imax movie) and Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Unimaginable 8.
Right here’s the 2025 Filmed for IMAX Slate:
Captain America: Courageous New World (Disney/Marvel)
Untitled Ryan Coogler/Michael B. Jordan movie (WB)
Thunderbolts (Disney/Marvel)
Flowervale Road (WB)
Mission: Unimaginable 8 (Paramount)
How To Prepare Your Dragon (Common)
Untitled Method One (Apple/Distributor TBC)
Superman: Legacy (WB/DC)
The Improbable 4 (Disney/Marvel)
Mercy (MGM/Amazon)
The Bride! (WB)
TRON: Ares (Disney)
Blade (Disney/Marvel)
Chinese language New 12 months, title TBC