Can IMAX Save Movie Theaters?

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Matt is joined by IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond to discuss the complicated state of movie theaters, and the growing importance of premium large-format screens like IMAX. Rich reveals just how much certain movies have benefitted from IMAX sales, which movies are getting the most IMAX screens this spring and summer, and what to do about the glut of empty multiplexes across the country. Matt finishes the show with an opening-weekend box office prediction for Alex Garland’s newest film, ‘Civil War.' For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Rich Gelfond Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:07.8	The finales of our favorite shows can make us argue, make us cry, and make us crazy.
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0:31.7	It is Thursday, April 11th. I'm here in Las Vegas at the annual Cinemicon convention where the theater company
0:39.4	executives from around the world come to see the latest innovations in cup holders and Skittles dispensers,
0:45.4	truly impressive stuff. And they also see previews of what movies the studios have in store for them
0:50.3	this summer and the rest of the year. The Warner Brothers presentation was Tuesday.
0:54.5	They did a nice job.
0:55.4	We got new looks at Furiosa and Joker 2 and my favorite Horizon and American Saga,
1:01.4	Parts 1 and 2, complete with Kevin Costner, getting a fake award on stage and then telling
1:06.7	everybody that he will always remember that they stood and gave him a standing ovation.
1:11.2	What a guy. It was very weird. Universal and Lionsgate went yesterday. Ariana Grande almost got me
1:17.4	to care about Wicked. I still think that movie's going to be huge, though. CinemaCon is obviously
1:22.0	coming at a pretty perilous time for the theater business. The Hollywood strikes of the past year
1:26.8	of trim the number of movie releases, pushed a bunch of titles the next business. The Hollywood strikes of the past year have trimmed the number
1:27.5	of movie releases, pushed a bunch of titles the next year. Box office is almost certainly going to be
1:32.2	down this year, probably a little more than $8 billion, way less than the nearly $12 billion that they
1:37.6	had pre-pandemic. Next year could be better, but a lot of people, myself included, I wrote about
1:42.4	this in my puck newsletter, they believe the
1:44.5	box office will never get back to pre-COVID levels that this country in particular, because of the
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