Thank you to all the theaters.
As a moviegoer and as a filmmaker, thats why we do what we do.
Her shout-out of Imax also highlighted a traditional aspect of the films blockbuster run: celluloid film.
Hoyte van Hoytema, who won for Cinematography,began his acceptance speechby praising the legacy format.
Its much easier … and it makes things look so much better.
The 3-hour period drama broke ground by having the first black-and-white sequences ever shot with large-format Imax equipment.
The films performance pushed Imaxs theatrical revenue to $1.06 billion in 2023, up 24% from 2022.
Gelfond joined Imax as co-chairman in 1994 after his firm, Cheviot Capital Advisors, bought the company.
A single Imax film print costs about $40,000, compared with $100 for digital, he noted.
Also, you need a forkift to pick it up, it weighs over 500 pounds.
So, its not really a format we can build on, but we kept that infrastructure in place.
Traditional film, he summed up, is a little bit like vinyl.
The public really has a high demand for that, and people really want to go to it.
