A year to the day of its release, select tickets for 70mm IMAX screenings of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey will go on sale.

A piece of 70 mm film is threaded across the sprockets of a projector at Boston Light & Sound. The projectors, which weigh in at around 1,000 pounds each, are shipped to theaters with test reels ...

But a resurgence in 70 mm’s mainstream popularity comes just as the ranks of film projectionists is as depleted as it’s ever been. In the past five years alone, 12 major blockbuster films have ...

Beginning on Christmas Day, 100 theaters around the country will be screening 'The Hateful Eight' using nearly extinct 70mm film projectors.

The gigantic 15-perforation 70mm frame. The people behind IMAX, however, wanted more, and rotated the film to run horizontally, as with Vistavision in 35mm, and omitted the sound. Film-based IMAX ...

With “Oppenheimer” in Imax 70mm, a “cinephile argument” has become mainstream, as 30 screens have raked in an astounding $17 million in just four weeks Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

David Schwartz, chief curator of New York's Museum of the Moving Image, explained that before digital projection, films were typically shot on 35mm film. 70mm was another option that was twice as big.

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar on 70mm has been rereleased to mark the science fiction film's 10-year anniversary. The 2014 film is seeing renewed success at the box office a decade after it ...

Christopher Nolan's war epic Dunkirk is currently rolling out the widest 70mm release of any film in 25 years. With digital cameras and projectors dominating the film industry Nolan is one of ...

Theaters scheduled to install 70mm film projectors for the release including AMC Burbank in Los Angeles and AMC Lincoln Square in New York, as well as the ArcLight Dome in Hollywood.

For starters, what is 70mm film? It’s a high-resolution format of celluloid film. It is, ... Every time you project a reel through a projector, it kills the film a little.

Regal L.A. Live will have an Imax 70mm film projector and 80-foot screen, one of the largest in the city. Philip Cheung/The New York Times. By Isabel Sami – Staff Reporter, L.A. Business First.