As 'Oppenheimer' Packs IMAX Theaters, Execs Explain What It Would Take To Open More Locations

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00:00 We've had some international listeners who told us that they got onto flights in order

00:05 to go find it in this format.

00:06 So I guess my question is, why do we not have more theaters that are capable of showing

00:11 films in that format?

00:13 What's holding that back?

00:14 And do you think that they'll, there are going to be more coming in the coming years?

00:18 I think it's a question of quantity of films that are available in this format.

00:23 If we had, you know, five or 10 Chris Nolans who were making films on an ongoing regular

00:28 basis, then there would be the throughput to support this kind of a workflow.

00:33 At the moment, you know, Chris is always encouraging other filmmakers to certainly to capture on

00:38 film and more people are capturing on film, I think, than were for a while.

00:43 But they're not following through that whole photochemical process.

00:45 They're not creating the release prints.

00:47 They're not talking the studios into that, the rest of that process, following it all

00:52 the way through the release prints.

00:54 And there's, you know, there's complexity involved in that.

00:57 We're dealing with equipment that, you know, is not brand new.

01:01 Dealing with having to find projectionists.

01:03 We had to find, you know, two, a minimum of two projectionists for each one of these 30

01:08 theaters that were in film.

01:11 That's one of the scarcest commodities.

01:12 It's not always the hardware.

01:14 It's the people who are experienced.

01:16 And this is a very long, 11 mile long, as everybody's been talking about.

01:20 Film print, it's expensive.

01:22 You don't want it to be misthreaded or, you know, have any problems with it.

01:26 So we need to find experienced projectionists.

01:28 And it's difficult to do that.

01:30 So I think, you know, we would need more projectionists.

01:32 There's certainly people who are interested in having more film.

01:36 But I think we need, realistically, we need more films in that format in order to keep

01:41 the business case, you know, viable for doing that.

01:44 Having more theaters.

01:46 But scarcity is, I think you touched on it.

01:49 Scarcity is important also.

01:50 You know, people want to see that particular version.

01:55 And only 30 places in the world.

01:56 But if you're passionate enough, you'll find a way to get there.

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