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Imax without Imax
Published: 9/16/2009 3:29 PM
Last Modified: 9/16/2009 3:29 PM

No, you are not seeing things. Megan Fox is five stories tall on the Imax screen. But her new film, "Jennifer's Body," is not showing in true Imax dimensions.
For the first time in memory, the Imax theater at Cinemark Tulsa, located at U.S. 169 and 71st Street, will not be playing a film made specially for the gigantic Imax screen this weekend. It may not for a while.
"The decision came as a surprise to all of us," said Heath Poe, projectionist for the Cinemark Tulsa's Imax theater, which opened in 2000.
The Imax theater -- the only one in Oklahoma -- was not among those selected to open "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," a 3-D film modified for the Imax screen, this Friday. The theater has been showing the new "Harry Potter" flick for weeks, along with nightly 10 p.m. screenings of "Star Trek" the past couple of weeks, and management had hoped to screen "Cloudy" as new product.
So, rather than continue those pictures, for which attendance has naturally declined after more than two months since opening, Cinemark Tulsa is going to project onto the Imax screen a 35mm print of "Jennifer's Body," the new vampire comedy starring "Transformers" hottie Fox and written by Diablo Cody of "Juno."
The 35mm print will be stretched to fit about 85 percent of the Imax screen, Poe said.
He added that the next film scheduled for an Imax release is "Where the Wild Things Are," which is scheduled to be released on Oct. 16. Until that time -- or perhaps until the Nov. 6 release of "A Christmas Carol" -- the theater will likely continue to show various upcoming films from 35mm prints.

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Ms Biby (3 years ago)

PLEASE, please, please bring back "Polar Express" in 3-D for this holiday season. Fun trying to catch the snowflakes on your tongue! Thanks

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