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'Dark Knight' To Bring IMAX Home
Author: FRED TOPEL
homemediamagazine@questex.com
Posted: July 14, 2008

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The Dark Knight Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight features Imax sequences that fully fill the eight-story screen, while the rest of the film appears letterboxed. Director Christopher Nolan said that the Blu-ray Disc version could capture the Imax sequences by filling a 16:9-ratio HDTV while the majority of the film appears letterboxed.

“For home video, certainly the Blu-ray version will [involve] actually changing the format size and actually using the IMAX footage,” Nolan said. “You can see the difference on that high resolution.”

As an example, the recent Blu-ray release of Batman Begins featured six minutes of the Imax footage from The Dark Knight. Indeed, it fills the 16:9 frame and captures the detail.

“On the standard 35mm version, we did 35mm extractions from the Imax frame,” Nolan said. “The Imax negative is so clear and grain free that there’s a great sharpness and clarity to them. Obviously, the differences are nowhere near as dramatic as there is on the Imax screen.”

There might be minor cropping in the Blu-ray edition, as Imax screens are not exactly 16:9 in dimensions.

“Some of the smaller Imax theaters are a smaller aspect ratio which is 16:9 as well,” Nolan said. “It’s still quite a difference from the 2.40:1 [aspect ratio] to a 16:9. So I think you’ll get some sense of it.”

Shooting in Imax changed Nolan’s technique as a filmmaker to accommodate the technical limitations of the format.

I gotta see this on Imax friday. Headed to the website to order tickets.

Where is the Imax in our area. Id love to see it there too.

Originally Posted by elwaylite

Where is the Imax in our area. Id love to see it there too.

Settlers landing road in Hampton at the Virginia air and space center.

Just bought them for Sat afternoon, $24

Originally Posted by elwaylite

Just bought them for Sat afternoon, $24

I'm taking off work, gonna see it at around 1 pm tomorrow with my son.

Cool deal. From what the reviews say, im sure itll be badass in Imax.

Yeah, it's coming soon to the IMAX in Austin. I'm not sure if I can wait that long. I will probably go and watch it on a digital screen at Tinseltown Pflugerville--screw the drafthouse. I don't *NEED* to have a beer to sit through Batman.

Just got home. Its 2.5 hours and sold out every showing today. Seating is a little tight (like packed baseball park seating), so be warned,,,,,and the line was almost out the door. I was about 4th in line though, you need to arrive an hour early and park in the free parking garage accross the street. Heath Ledger is magnificent in this movie, you will find yourself wanting more and more scenes with him in them. He is unbelievably twisted and evil. And the magic trick with the pencil.... oh my.