Time isn鈥檛 inverting: is coming back to movie theaters for a week and on other large-format screens.
starring John David Washington will begin on Feb. 23, Warner Bros. Discovery said Thursday. The showings will also feature new footage from Denis Villeneuve鈥檚 鈥淒une: Part Two,鈥� which opens a week later on March 1. Tickets for the special showings are on sale Thursday.
鈥淪eeing the way audiences responded to our large format presentations of 鈥極ppenheimer,鈥� I鈥檓 thrilled that Warner Bros. is giving audiences a chance to see 鈥楾enet鈥� the way it was intended to be seen, on the largest IMAX and large format film screens,鈥� Nolan said in a statement. 鈥淚鈥檓 honored to have our movie warm up the film projectors for Denis鈥� jaw-dropping 鈥楧une: Part Two.鈥欌��
鈥淥ppenheimer,鈥� which was recently , , with a special emphasis on large-format presentations like IMAX 70mm and 70mm. was also filmed entirely on large-format film stock, but never got its full due on the big screen. It was the first major Hollywood film to open in theaters during the pandemic, in September 2020, at a time when cinemas in Los Angeles and New York were still closed and others were operating at limited capacity.
After 鈥淭别苍别迟鈥� was released, Warner Bros. made to release all of its 2021 films simultaneously in theaters and on its streaming service, The move was widely criticized by top filmmakers, including Villeneuve who took his next film, 鈥淥ppenheimer,鈥� to Universal.
Both champions of the big screen experience, Villeneuve's 鈥淒une: Part Two,鈥� from its original 2023 date to a March release amid the was also made with large format presentation in mind.
鈥淥n 鈥楧une,鈥� we shot several sequences for IMAX, and I simply loved it, so for 鈥楧une: Part Two,鈥� we pushed it to 100 percent of the movie,鈥� Villeneuve said in a statement. 鈥淲orking with the IMAX format was the only way to capture the experience of Arrakis, Giedi Prime and the Imperium for audiences.鈥�
Theaters showing 鈥淭enet," and the 鈥淒une: Part Two鈥� footage, in IMAX 70mm include AMC Lincoln Square in New York, Universal CityWalk IMAX and TCL Chinese IMAX in Los Angeles, and AMC Metreon in San Francisco.
鈥淚 am just as eager to see 鈥楾enet鈥� again, but now in 70mm IMAX, the way they filmed it, to fully appreciate his vision for this incredible film,鈥� Villeneuve added.
Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press
