Indian news: Eclipse comes in IMAX

When a movie opens to bigger box office returns that the Dark freaking Knight, the producers are bound to take the film a notch higher. It turns out ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ will release in both conventional theaters and in IMAX worldwide on June 30, 2010.

And that means ‘Eclipse’ will hit theaters in India the same day too, considering its a super wide IMAX release. You must know that ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ was shot using regular cameras. IMAX corp are going to digitally re-master the footage with IMAX DMR (Digital Re-mastering) technology. So don’t expect an ‘Avatar’ or ‘The Dark Knight’ like experience (those films were shot using IMAX cameras, and were made specifically for IMAX screens).

Here is an excerpt from the press release by Summit: IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Summit Entertainment announced today that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the studio’s Twilight franchise, will be released to IMAX® theatres simultaneously with the film’s launch on June 30, 2010. Twilight moviegoers will have a whole new way to experience this next installment of the series, with the enhanced image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience putting them IN the movie,” said Richie Fay, Summit Entertainment’s President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution. “The IMAX release puts us on the event film calendar for 2010, and we’re very excited to work with IMAX to bring a new kind of film to the IMAX theatre network.

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