IMAX Fires Up Greatest Memorial Day Weekend Opening Ever with $32.5 International Million Debut of “High Gun: Maverick”
IMAX Turns in Dominating Efficiency at Home Field Workplace, Incomes 14% of Total North American Gross with $21 Million
NEW YORK, Might 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — IMAX Company (NYSE: IMAX) soared to its greatest world four-day Memorial Day Weekend opening ever with the $32.5 million debut of Paramount Footage’ “High Gun: Maverick”, starring cinema icon Tom Cruise. Crushing business expectations, the aerial actioner additionally scored the largest home four-day Memorial Day Weekend opening ever in IMAX with $21 million, good for a surprising 14% of the general North American field workplace.
“High Gun: Maverick” now stands as Tom Cruise’s largest opening weekend ever in IMAX — world, home, and in 50 particular person international locations and territories worldwide — topping a run of eight Cruise-led blockbuster releases courting again to 2011.
“Should you thought films had been useless, go see ‘High Gun: Maverick’ after which let me know what you assume. This movie heralds the return of the summer season blockbuster and is a catalyst that can speed up demand for moviegoing like an F-18 breaking the sound barrier,” mentioned Wealthy Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. “There is not any approach you sit in a theatre, with an enormous display and chest-pounding audio system, and are available away considering there’s some other approach you wish to expertise ‘High Gun: Maverick’, and our hats are off to Tom Cruise, Joe Kosinski and their fearless artistic crew for what they’ve completed.”
“High Gun: Maverick” is a Filmed For IMAX launch shot with IMAX-certified Sony Venice cameras and consists of practically an hour of scenes in IMAX-exclusive 1:90:1 expanded side ratio. This consists of all of the movie’s beautiful flight sequences and in addition to further scenes which might be obtainable with as much as 26% extra image solely obtainable in IMAX.
Six of the specialised IMAX cameras had been strapped to the within of the cockpit of an F-18A Tremendous Hornet to allow the movie’s groundbreaking aerial images, and IMAX picture high quality enhancements in post-production and better dynamic vary sound methods allowed the filmmakers to design the film to be skilled in IMAX.
Internationally, “High Gun: Maverick” delivered a high ten all-time IMAX opening weekend in eighteen numerous markets, together with the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Japan, Singapore, Argentina, Sweden, and Norway.
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IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles, with further workplaces in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of December 31, 2021, there have been 1,683 IMAX theater methods (1,599 industrial multiplexes, 12 industrial locations, 72 institutional) working in 87 international locations and territories. Shares of IMAX China Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Company, commerce on the Hong Kong Inventory Alternate underneath the inventory code “1970.”
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