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Attack of the Really Big Clones
An anonymous reader writes "CNN reports that Attack of the Clones is coming to an IMAX theatre near you. 50 IMAX commercial venues, and 20-30 science museum sites will begin showing the film on November 1. The IMAX version is expected to add another $20M to the films current $300M take."
will be coming out on IMAX about the same time too. Could be a good year end for IMAX.
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Well, that should make the pixels on the screen that I saw on standard 35mm about as big as a life-size R2. Nausiating Pixelicous goodness.
Seriously, though, "Beauty and the beast" was hard to watch in IMAX, because you could see every little artist flaw, and the 1990-era CGI looked really terrible. And 'clones' was shot in 1920x1080, that should make the pixels approxamately, what, one foot square each? Yikes.
Assuming that the 100 foot wide screen mentioned in the article is correct, and your stat of 1920 pixels wide is also correct then:
1920 pixels / 100 feet = 19.2 pixels per foot.
12 inches per foot / 19.2 pixels per foot = 0.625 inches
Natalie Portman nip-ons in three-story screen glory.
'Nuff said.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
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$601 Titanic 1997
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$461 Star Wars 1977
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$435 E.T. 1982
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$431 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 1999
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$404 Spider-Man 2002
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$357 Jurassic Park 1993
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$330 Forrest Gump 1994
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$318 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001
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$313 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
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$313 The Lion King 1994
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$309 Return of the Jedi 1983
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$306 Independence Day 1996
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$301 Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 2002
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$293 The Sixth Sense 1999
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$290 The Empire Strikes Back 1980
Looks like "the empire" and "jedi" aren't there either...blah blah blah....
drightler@technicalogic.com
1.56cm x 1.56cm = 2.43cm^2 ~= 2.5cm^2
He was talking length, you were talking area.
Your numbers agree.
Sorry, but you're incorrect.
Fantasia 2000 had only one bit from the original Fantasia, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." The rest of the film was IMAX. I also believe that "The Sorceror's Apprentice" was shown in the IMAX theater with a large black border around it as it was in the DVD release.
Incidentally, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" was in 4:3 'standard' ratio since it's from the 30's.