Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is making its world premiere this week. The film opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, but if you haven’t gotten a ticket yet, it may be difficult to snag one.<\/p>\n
The film is making cinematic history, standing as the first feature film to be shot entirely with IMAX film cameras. <\/p>\n
While numerous local theaters offer IMAX screenings, only the Cinemark in Dallas has 70mm film capabilities. The only other movie theater in Texas with equal capabilities is the AMC Rivercenter 11 in San Antonio. The full list of theaters can be found on IMAX.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n A massive Trojan horse was installed in New York City ahead of the film’s premiere<\/a> on Tuesday. The 40-foot, 8,000-pound replica of the Trojan horse from ‘The Odyssey’ was installed outside AMC Lincoln Square.<\/p>\n The film used 2.1 million feet of IMAX film. According to the production, that\u2019s longer than the distance from Toronto to New York.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZendaya explained how her husband, Tom Holland, told her she was cast in “The Odyssey” and why getting a part was a dream come true for her.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cBy shooting on IMAX 70mm film, you\u2019re really letting the screen disappear,\u201d Nolan said. \u201cYou\u2019re getting a feeling of 3D without the glasses. You\u2019ve got a huge screen, and you\u2019re filling the peripheral vision of the audience. You\u2019re immersing them in the world of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n IMAX cameras can only shoot for 3 minutes continuously before it needs to be reloaded. Instead of being a hindrance, though, it kept everyone hyper-focused.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Bernthal dishes on the many projects he has coming up this year, including the best part about acting on stage in the Broadway adaptation of “Dog Day Afternoon,” co-writing special episodes for “The Bear” and “The Punisher,” and starring alongside Tom Holland in the biggest blockbusters of the summer “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s an expensive camera. You got two and a half minutes with each roll of film, so you gotta get it in and keep it moving,\u201d said Lupita Nyong\u2019o. \u201cThere\u2019s a different vibration on a Chris Nolan set. Everyone is present, everyone is ready, alert, and doing their bit to keep the train on the tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n The camera, plus the noise-reducing muffler they dubbed \u201cthe blimp\u201d that encased it, weighs approximately 300 pounds.<\/p>\n Nolan\u2019s favorite exhibition format is also the rarest<\/a>, and some of the most popular locations in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas’ Cinemark are virtually sold out for weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cThe sharpness and the clarity and the depth of the image is unparalleled,\u201d Nolan said.<\/p>\n On a technical level, the IMAX film resolution is almost 10 times more than a 35mm projector, and each frame has some 18,000 pixels of resolution versus a home HD screen that has 1,920 pixels. On the biggest presentations, IMAX 1.43:1 (the massive square screen), the screen essentially disappears for the audience. For other formats like 35mm, the top and the bottom get cropped.<\/p>\n The film is also showing in other formats at movie theaters across DFW, including Alamo Drafthouse, AMC, Angelika, B&B, Cinemark, Cinepolis, Galaxy, Regal, and Studio Movie Grill.<\/p>\n IMAX 70mm film was also an essential part of the movie Sinners’ theatrical run<\/a>; Sinners ended up nominated for a record 16 awards, including Best Picture<\/a> at the 98th Academy Awards. <\/p>\n “The Odyssey” is a Universal production, part of NBC Universal, the parent company of NBC DFW and Telemundo 39.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is making its world premiere this week. 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