“Sinners”, the bending hit of the genre of the writer-director Ryan Coogler, should be reissued in IMAX 70mm from May 15 to 21 after “a popular and critical overwhelming response”, announced Warner Bros. Pictures.
The film climbed to the box office, keeping more than $ 175 million In the world after two weeks in theaters. Sales of 70 mm IMAX, which offers the public a larger and clearer The cinematographic experience, represented around 20% of the opening figures for the weekend box office, recently declared the director of quality of IMAX quality, David Keighley, in Times.
“The public spoke and we listened,” said Jeff Goldstein, president of Warner Bros. Thursday. Pictures, in a press release. “If a film was to be experienced in this incredible format larger than life, it is” sinners “. Ryan delivered a film that has been adopted by fans who appreciate the know -how that goes in the creation of a film for this screen filling format and we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to see it – or to see it again – in 70 mm IMAX. »»
The film was initially presented in only 10 Imax theaters of 70 mm worldwide. The reissue will bring back the film with nine North American theaters: Harkins Arizona Mills 18 & IMAX at Temple; Regal Irvine Spectrum and Imax in Irvine; AMC universal cinema in Citywalk Hollywood & Imax in Los Angeles; AMC METREON 16 & IMAX in San Francisco; IMAX Authority Theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Imax theater in the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis; AMC Lincoln Square 13 and IMAX in New York; Cinemark Dallas & Imax in Dallas; And Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan & Imax In Ontario, Canada.
“The joy that the public obtains by seeing the film in IMAX 70 mm format does not look like any other,” said Taylor Umphenour, an Imax 70 mm film projectionist, in Times in an email. “So much work goes into these films of all the people involved. It is wonderful to project these closed windows with the highest presentation standards for an incredibly grateful audience.”
Patrick Caldwell, the projectionist of Cinemark Dallas, said that he was “jazz” about the reissue, and that “practically each show here has been exhausted”.
