Cinemark Is Adding More 70mm Imax Screens Ahead Of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

The movie manufacture has been successful a tailspin for years, pinch galore group foregoing nan theatrical acquisition successful favour of watching films astatine home. I get it. Going to nan movies tin beryllium costly and, let’s look it, dealing pinch different group tin beryllium annoying (it’s been 10 years and I’m still huffy astir those teenagers who would not extremity giggling each nan measurement done my first viewing of The Witch). But there’s thing rather for illustration going to a theatre and getting mislaid successful a awesome movie for a mates of hours. In addition, large-scale formats are increasing successful fame and theatre chains are trying to accommodate moviegoers.

Cinemark is installing much IMAX screens, including ones that support 70mm movie projection. The institution is adding specified screens to its locations successful Woodridge, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago); Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Rochester, New York. It’s besides adding 4 IMAX pinch Laser systems — a 4K laser offering — to different locations successful nan US successful nan coming months. It’s upgrading its different 12 IMAX screens crossed nan Americas pinch that tech too.

According to Variety, Cinemark plans to person nan caller IMAX 70mm movie screens group up by July 17, 2026. That’s nan merchandise day for Christopher Nolan’s adjacent film, The Odyssey, which is nan first theatrical merchandise to beryllium changeable wholly successful IMAX. As it stands, only 30 movie theaters connected nan satellite tin surface films successful IMAX 70mm, which is Nolan’s preferred format.

IMAX is proving celebrated pinch cinemagoers who are looking for a large-format acquisition that would beryllium intolerable astatine location (at slightest not without an obscene backstage screen). Indeed, galore IMAX 70mm screenings of The Odyssey sold retired a twelvemonth successful advance.

IMAX 70mm isn’t nan only format pinch constricted readiness that’s drafting audiences to theaters. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is nan first movie successful 60 years to beryllium projected successful nan VistaVision format, but only astatine a fewer locations. The movie is presently being screened successful IMAX 70mm successful immoderate cinemas too.