TServo2049

I dunno. I can't really distinguish Atmos from 7.1, honestly. I may have a keen sense of hearing, but there is only so much extra directionality I can process while I'm also trying to follow what's happening on screen and what the characters are saying and so forth. And I've heard Atmos cranked up to IMAX levels before. Pacific Rim opening night in Regal RPX/Dolby Atmos was one of the most painful sonic experiences I have ever had to endure. It caused physical discomfort, not just for my ears, but also for my stomach. The ordeal caused me to swear off premium large format; save for seeing Gravity and Interstellar in IMAX, every screening I've been to post-Pacific Rim has been plain ol' 2D with regular 7.1 sound. So I guess I have no answer for you.

Oh, correction, Fox didn't sell the Passion rights. Looked it up, they had a first-look deal with Gibson's company, but the protests and outcry caused them to pass on it.

I was thinking Sony could try to cut its losses by selling theatrical rights to Lionsgate or Open Road or someone like that.

That means they must have access to a leaked screener copy of the movie, no?

Well, Fox had to put SOMETHING in the Christmas slot in place of Panda 3. It'll be crap, but whatever. I'm a little surprised though, considering they previously delayed it to December 2016 FROM December 2015.

I wonder how long before it leaks.

They said they have no plans to. Hence my references to how this movie could end up never being seen by anyone, like Jerry Lewis' The Day the Clown Cried.

Yeah, this could be like The Day the Clown Cried, locked away and never released anywhere, ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Clown_Cried

If anybody shows it. I wonder if Sony will release it in any form. Could this end up locked away like The Day the Clown Cried?

Originality is too risky, so instead let's copy what has already been proven to work. Except that what has already been proven to work almost always started out as a risk. A classic Hollywood paradox.

More venues keeping Interstellar: The National Air and Space Museum in D.C. is keeping IS up to MLK Day. (Wouldn't be surprised if this engagement sells the most tickets of any of the remaining 15/70 venues.) The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in VA is keeping it up to January 5. Those laser projectors...while they will improve digital IMAX (hopefully no more aliasing) I am worried if they'll be the nail in the coffin for what remains of 15/70...

Do those marathons ever get reported? I have never seen the component films' grosses get updated to include them, that I know.

Actually, I'm going to try to put together a list of all the theaters I can find that are keeping Interstellar in 15/70. I will edit as I find them. Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL

Those are dual-format, digital-equipped venues. Around here, Hacienda Crossings is also dropping Interstellar 15/70 for Hobbit digital tonight. But what I assume John meant is that at least some IMAX venues which are *not* equipped for digital (e.g., science museums) will be keeping IS. For example, the non-digital/non-3D Hackworth IMAX Dome at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose is running IS at least to the end of this year.

So did Roaring Currents, Frozen and Interstellar save SK from having a slump year or something? I look at the drop in local film admissions and the spike in import film admissions and I get that impression.

BOM hadn't put in the actual yet. It's fixed now

OK, now it makes more sense. But still - the last time a crossover comic was turned into a movie, we got AVP.

Studios come up with all sorts of whacked out ideas that never come to be. It's not that shocking IMO. Three words: Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.

"The head explosion has been considerably obscured by the fire." immediately made me think of what Spielberg had to do with Belloq's death scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark to avoid an R rating - considerably obscure a head explosion by fire.

Austin Powers also exploded on video. (I didn't realize until I read old articles that it outsold Men in Black.) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is another one - it did OK business ($243m WW on a $100m budget).

Paramount really had no choice. Rick Berman and Brannon Braga had poisoned the Trek well in the early 2000s with Enterprise and Nemesis. The franchise was on life support, so rebooting the TOS era (which was still popular and basically untainted even after all I mentioned) must have made sense then.

Only slightly exaggerated. Sad.

If this doesn't do well, could Rogen's future with Sony (past the terms of whatever his current projects/deal are) be in jeopardy? Could they conceivably put blame on him for basically causing this whole hack thing and not delivering a success on top of it?