King of Prussia Cinema One of Few Across U.S. to Support Special IMAX Film Format
When the highly anticipated movie “Oppenheimer” was released in July, Regal Cinemas in King of Prussia was one of the very few movie theatres able to show the film using the IMAX 70 mm film format, writes Todd Spangler for Variety.
The film’s director Chris Nolan has called this special format the “best possible experience” for viewing “Oppenheimer.”
The film is about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as he heads the U.S. government’s Manhattan Project and creates the atom bomb.
IMAX developed control software very similar to the software used in the 2002 PalmPilot PDA device specifically for this three-hour movie. The 70mm IMAX print of “Oppenheimer” includes 11 miles of film stock weighing about 600 pounds.
The film platters were so large, the company had to build extensions to accommodate them. Existing platters could only hold enough film for a 150-minute runtime.
Only 25 theaters across North America actually support the format. Besides Regal in King of Prussia, that short list includes AMC Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles and AMC Lincoln Square in New York City.
Read more about this special film format in Variety.
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