IMAX 70mm Tickets For Sinners Are Now On Sale—At Least In The USA
Time to get excited.. the upcoming movie “Sinners” is one of the few that has been “Shot With IMAX … More
If you’re a “true IMAX” fan, then you probably want to make sure you’ve grabbed a ticket for Sinners, which are now on sale — albeit just in the US and for only three locations so far.
Released on 18 April, the official IMAX website has revealed that early screenings for the upcoming film from director Ryan Coogler (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) will be coming to the following theaters:
So-called “true IMAX” refers to films that are shot, at least in part, with IMAX cameras, which, as the largest physical film format available, produce the highest possible image quality. It also has a native aspect ratio of 1.43:1, which, when projected onto the full-size screens of IMAX 70mm theaters, delivers a cinematic experience that is unlike anything else.
According to reports, 25 minutes of the 2-hour 11-minute movie will be presented in IMAX 1.43:1 aspect ratio, making up nearly 20 per cent of its runtime.
How many theaters worldwide will be getting a rare IMAX 70mm film print is unclear (Oppenheimer played in 30 IMAX 70mm capable theaters), but so far, at least five other IMAX theaters in the USA have announced that they will be showing the film in the format. The BFI IMAX in Waterloo, London, has too, but at this stage, however, it looks as though only one print will be making its way to the UK, which means that the Printworks in Manchester will miss out.
A supernatural thriller set in the 1930s Jim Crow-era South, Sinners is a pleasingly leftfield choice of follow-up from Ryan Coogler, whose previous film was Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
To get a sense of the movie, check out this IMAX featurette, in which its cinematographer, Autumn Durald Akrapaw, explains how the tall image of the IMAX frame delivers an emotional quality that other formats cannot reach.
The trailers show that it has Scorsese-like dramatic elements, while the IMAX photography gives it that epic scale that one associates with Christopher Nolan. It’s’s not the first time that the horror genre, black culture, and IMAX cameras have combined — with Jordan Peele’s Nope doing so to great effect in 2019. Perhaps the effectiveness of horror and IMAX is why Nolan said that it’s a genre that he would like to do at some point.
As of now, though, he currently working on his next feature, The Odyssey, using next-gen IMAX cameras, but until that arrives in 2026, IMAX fans have Sinners to get excited about.