Christopher Nolan OdysseyTHE Oppenheimer The director’s epic socket on the classic Greek myth, will completely run on Imax cinema cameras, a first for a commercial feature film.
Nolan is a fan of the large screen format, on which he used Dunkirque,, InterstellarTHE Black knight Films and Principleas well as largely on Oppenheimer. But turning an entire feature film on famous, noisy and heavy IMAX film cameras (unlike the lighter and quieter digital Imax cameras, used in recent films such as Thunderbolts * And the next Superman) was impassable.
So far.
After the success of OppenheimerWho won more than $ 190 million on IMAX screens, some 20% of its total raw total, Nolan has put the company to improve its cameras, to make them lighter and quieter, and to solve problems of scanning and treatment of the 70 mm films of the cameras, to allow it to easily watch the daily life while it has turned.
“Chris called me and said that if you could understand how to solve the problems,”Odyssey) 100% in IMAX. And that’s what we do, “said IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond, speaking on Thursday during the annual press lunch of the company in Cannes.” He forced us to rethink this side of our company, our cinema recorders, our cinema cameras. “
The new IMAX cameras would be 30% quieter – so these sadly famous scenes of dialogue stifled in Nolan’s films could be something in the past – and much lighter. Gelfond has said that new film digitization and treatment techniques will allow a faster turnaround for daily newspapers.
The new movie cameras are reserved for Nolan for the moment, but after enveloping OdysseyIMAX will start renting them to other directors.
There should be a lot of demand. Gelfond discussed the “record number” of the films that released in 2025 which shot at least certain scenes with IMAX cameras or “filmed for IMAX” using cameras approved by IMAX, including Ryan Coogler’s SinnersTom Cruise-Starrer Mission: Impossible – The final calculationWho made his IMAX debut in Cannes on Wednesday evening, and Joseph Kosinski’s next race film Formula 1With Brad Pitt.
NarniaGreta Gerwig’s next fantastic film will be shot for Imax, although Gelford said it was not yet clear in the Barbie The director would use IMAX cameras for certain scenes. Netflix has signed a global agreement with IMAX, giving them an exclusive 28 -day theatrical window for Narnia Before the movie released on the streamer.
Gelfond also announced the production of Patrol of France, The very first IMAX documentary in a foreign language. A co -production between the studios of the federation and the production of imago, the DOC functionality recounts a year in the life of the Patrol of France, the legendary aerobatical team of the French air and space force – of the selection process and intense training in its signing elite air displays. The project follows the success of IMAX with Blue AngelsDocumentary by Paul Crowder, produced with Amazon MGM Studios, on the Blue Angels pilots of the US Navy flight demonstration team.
