Sweet! 'Matrix' To Be Reloaded in IMAX Format

[Rokenn]

'Matrix' To Be Reloaded in IMAX Format

Toronto-based Imax has signed a deal with Warner Bros. to release the forthcoming The Matrix Reloaded and next fall's The Matrix Revolutions on giant IMAX screens in North America at the same time they will be running in conventional theaters. The films will be digitally-remastered using Imax's DMR technology, which had previously been used to convert Ron Howard's Apollo 13 and George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones to the Imax giant-screen format. The first Matrix sequel is expected to open in Imax theaters about two to three weeks after its general release on May 15. The Matrix Revolution is expected to open in Imax and conventional theaters simultaneously on Nov. 5. In a statement, Imax said that "the simultaneous release of first-run Hollywood event films in its theaters is the holy grail for the company, and it's something investors have been anxiously anticipating for some time."

[Thoran]

I would warn anyone against viewing a normal movie on a semi-circular IMAX screen.

I saw Fantasia 2000 with the boys in Jacksonville FL on a flat IMAX screen... it was awesome, but last year we saw Star Wars AOTC on the circular IMAX screen at the Spectrum in Irvine CA and it just didn't work... everything was distorted because of the screen. Things in the center of the screen were HUGE, but everything that wasn't in the middle was distorted and bent from the screen... and smaller.