“Transformers”: The IMAX Experience… DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures’ “Transformers” has been digitally re-mastered into IMAX’s immersive format for Release in IMAX theaters on September 21, 2007.
Last night I saw the IMAX screening of Transformers and the sound and picture were definitely worth all the hype! If you grew up with these toys, like action films, or just are interested in a loud and suspenseful combat film… you should definitely check this film out in IMAX.
For more information, and a local listing of IMAX theatres near you, visit www.imax.com.
Here are some cool “IMAX Fun Facts”…
· Because IMAX screens can be as high as eight stories and 120 feet wide, the Chevy Camaro that turns into Bumblebee™ will actually be life-size.
· You could stand Bumblebee™ on Optimus Prime’s® shoulders and they would still not be as high as the largest IMAX screen.
· The average IMAX screen is 4,500 times bigger than an average TV screen and is as wide as an NFL football field.
· The light from the powerful lamp in an IMAX projector is so bright that if it were on the moon, we could see it from Earth – and possibly even from Cybertron.
· IMAX film uses the largest film frame in the motion picture industry, 10x the picture area of a conventional 35 mm film frame. The length of the IMAX DMR® version of “TRANSFORMERS” is more than 50,000 ft long.
· In IMAX theatres, audiences will feel the impact of the footsteps of the Autobots’® and the Decepticons® thanks to the powerful IMAX sound system – a multi-channel, state-of-the-art, digital surround sound system that uses 44 custom-designed speakers.
