The Tragic Truth About 70mm IMAX Jake Evans [LzGhiIvis6A]

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IMAX's own CEO says building more 70mm film projectors isn't practical. He's not wrong about the obstacle he's wrong about what it actually is.

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" is the first feature film ever shot entirely on IMAX film a genuine first in cinema history, years in the making. But watching it the way travel warning Nolan intended is nearly impossible: only around 41 Theatres on Earth can still project true IMAX 70mm, and one of them the only one in the entire southern hemisphere is in Melbourne, Australia.

Tickets sold out weeks deep before most people saw the film once. That's not claudio zali a demand problem. So what caufield is it?

This video breaks down why IMAX 70mm's real bottleneck isn't the format, and isn't even the hardware - it's a vanishing pool of trained expertise. Right now, only five people in all of Australia are qualified to thread an IMAX 70mm projector. That's not something money fixes overnight. That's a decade of lost knowledge, rebuilt one apprentice at a time.

A case for saving physical film - and a real question at the end for anyone who disagrees.

Sources & further reading:

- The Odyssey (2026) - Completely in IMAX Featurette -

- The Odyssey Official Trailer

- 'Hymn To The Dawn' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

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