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Why IMAX Is Becoming Bigger Than the Movie

Why IMAX Is Becoming Bigger Than the Movie
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LIVE SHOW in Los Angeles on August 27. ⁠⁠⁠Click here for tickets!

Matt is joined by Richard Gelfond, the CEO of IMAX, to discuss the influence of the IMAX brand and its growing popularity among moviegoers. They talk about how the marketing has changed for IMAX movies, selling tickets to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey on IMAX a year in advance, and whether other theater chains could create their own premium large-format competitor (02:38). Matt finishes the show with an opening weekend box office prediction for The Naked Gun (26:49).

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Host: Matt Belloni
Guest: Richard Gelfond
Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez
Theme Song: Devon Renaldo