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The same date as the the sequel.

Wouldn’t be surprised to see it reappear in IMAX sometime in Aug/Sept/Oct - precedent was the original film got IMAX re-release with added footage around that timeframe. IMAX historically in past decade has filled weekends in that time frame with recent repertory programming.

I think that was the end result for sure but I think the points Cameron picked definitely made it more obvious instead of less. He’d switch it in the middle of shots and there didn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. I think the trick would have been to use it in places that made shots look...

That’s why I think it requires a whole new cinematic vernacular that no one has really bothered to develop yet. All of the films made in HFR have basically been shot the same as standard 24fps films, just with HFR. No one has really put the work in to figure out how to use this different medium...

I keep telling ya guys, I’d listen to this podcast. Hasn’t been the same without Siskel and Ebert…

Yes and no. Some of it’s me. At this moment I’m time I’m just so over violence and fighting and war, so the first and last thirds still felt like forever. The middle hour is a triumph.

I went and saw it a second time last night. The theater’s page listed the IMAX 3D presentation as being in HFR, but it was actually the regular 24fps presentation. I previously saw it in HFR and I think I enjoyed the regular version better. I was a little disappointed only because I wanted to...

I do think it’s fair to say that Titanic overperformed among the teenage girl crowd in a way that was noticeable - I’ve ever been a teenage girl before but I was a teenage boy when that movie came out, and that was the only time in my teenage school-going career that me being a “movie buff” was...

What’s not true about that? Titanic did fantastic repeat business, including the groups Carlo mentioned. It also did great repeat business with groups not mentioned by Carlo. You don’t stay #1 for five months or however long Titanic was at the top of the charts with everyone going just once. It...

It was an entirely different era, and films kind As Good As It Gets did fill their screenings that winter season. I fondly remember seeing it multiple times in theaters. Tomorrow Never Dies was also big - it’s simply that action movies weren’t expected to do $200 million a weekend back then. I...

It’s being played in HFR in almost all of its 3D engagements but not all ticketing sites and movie chains are configured to display that information at their point of sale systems. I don’t know why the studio didn’t put up a website helping viewers identify which versions are playing at what...

The IMAX presentation is a constant 1.90:1 without shifting ratios.

I think that’s just your brain reacting to the change. The projector itself isn’t changing speed - it’s running at 48fps for the entire film. It’s simply that for the 24fps sequences, each frame is repeated twice to give the illusion of a slower frame rate. So there’s no physical or software...

The dual laser system can display HFR. The limitation you may have read about with the dual laser system is that due to server processing and overheating concerns, that system can only fill the entire screen width at Lincoln Square with HFR 3D at 2K resolution. To show it in 4K HFR 3D, they...

I’m not necessarily sure it was wrong to say it didn’t have an impact, at least in the sense that it hasn’t overtaken pop culture the way the Marvel Cinematic Universe did in its prime years. But I’d also argue that this has been a strength for Avatar - the delay between movies and the lack of...

I used to think the same but two films changed my mind about this circa 2014-15. X-Men: Days of Future Past was shot native 3D and it is the most 2D-looking 3D movie I’ve ever seen. The director, who had previously made an outstanding looking native 3D film, decided he didn’t want to put the...

Yeah but in a very loose sense in my opinion - in Gravity pretty much only the actors’ heads are real, and the rest is CGI, which was rendered in 3D. It’s 95% an animated film - and a bloody fantastic one at that - but it’s almost entirely computer generated. Avatar 2 had more CGI than the first...

This is getting where it needs to go faster than I anticipated. Impressive!

I thought that was what I was saying :) All of the old school digital imax theaters showed The Hobbit in HFR ten years ago. This shouldn’t be a big leap for them.

There are several different IMAX systems in play and I’ve seen inconsistent reports on which ones will be showing HFR. They’re all capable of it, though. You may have to call the theater directly for confirmation.

100gb discs have been industry standard for long films on UHD; not sure why it’s necessary to dredge up false controversy about the potential quality of a disc that doesn’t even exist yet.

Every day this week is a potential weekend-gross day. The holiday falling on Sat/Sun usually depresses the grosses for those specific days, but school being out and vacation time plus work from home means a lot of people will be coming out during the weekdays who normally wouldn’t. They knew...

They didn’t use the word “unobtanium” but they did say to Quarritch 2.0 that the new crews no longer mined on Pandora because Earth itself was dying, so mining supplies to build things on Earth was no longer important - preparing Pandora to support human life was the new mission.

I consider A Scanner Darkly to be an animated film.

I enjoyed the visuals of the movie, especially the water sequences. I’m still on the fence with HFR, but I think Cameron utilized it better than Peter Jackson and Ang Lee did. I said after seeing one of Lee’s films that the technique might be best used in sequences rather than 100% of the time...

The Blu-ray 3D format does not support HFR. The UHD 2D format does, so it is theoretically possible that a UHD version could include it. However, Cameron’s 2D theatrical version of the film does not have HFR, so I’m not sure that he’d want to add it to the 2D version for home viewing.

It’s the most successful park expansion in decades, from what I’ve read. The last time I was down there, the attractions were well over a year old and it was still more than a three hour wait - so I have yet to experience it but have heard nothing but raves from friends who have.

Any mid or post credits scenes?

Most films at any chain theater begin approximately 20 minutes after the published start time. If you call the theater and ask, they’ll usually tell you the exact time the feature will begin. In the era of reserved seating I’ve stopped arriving early and take my seat five minutes or less before...

I never would have thought Dunkirk could be a top grossing picture, and yet it was - so like Cameron, I won’t bet against Nolan. Both filmmakers are all about creating huge cinematic experiences and offer an implicit promise: trust us enough to buy a ticket, and we’ll give you a reason to care.