More IMAX News

sorry I havent blogged in a while, honestly there has been nothing really exciting to blog about....UNTIL NOW.

Just like The Dark Knight shot some scenes with an IMAX camera, another big summer tentpole action movie will be following in its giant 70mm footsteps:

TRANSFORMERS 2: Revenge of the Fallen!

That's right, Michael Bay, possibly the best director of action on Earth, is going to shoot some of the action scenes in his new transformers movie with the IMAX camera. That doesnt mean that the film will be reformatted to fit IMAX screens like some movies do (Eagle Eye, Harry Potter, Spider Man). It means the movie will actually be shot with the same cameras they use to shoot IMAX only films. This means that that the action scenes will stretch to fill the entire 70 foot screen with a crystal clear beautiful image filled with computer generated robots fighting each other while intercutting scenes of Megan Fox's perfectly formed ass.

I love robots. I love Michael Bay. I love IMAX.

IMAX: Wave of the Future?

It was anounced today that The Dark Knight will be re-released on IMAX screens in January just at the peak of Oscar hype. The obvious reasoning behind this is so that the movie will get noticed for oscar noms. Hopefully for Heath Ledger (Best Supporting Actor), maybe for Christopher Nolan (Best Director)? This is awesome because it has already grossed $950 MILLION DOLLARS worldwide, so it wouldn't take much more to get it in the elite ONE BILLION DOLLAR GROSS clique.

Speaking of IMAX, it was announced today that Jon Favreau (director of Iron Man) plans to shoot the ENTIRE sequel in IMAX 3D. Whereas, the dark knight only shot the action sequences with IMAX cameras, this movie would be shot like that the entire way through...AND in 3D. This seems like the way that all summer action blockbuster movies should be from now on, eh?