Alright, the individual my guy got this info from is making it public elsewhere, so I’m going to say it’s safe for me to share it here too.

The word is that Paramount destroyed all of the original IMAX 70mm prints of Interstellar that were returned to the studio after the original 2014 release, hence why the only currently existing prints are with theaters that have the space to keep a massive print themselves in storage. Chris Nolan didn’t approve of this, so now he’s furious. He requested that Paramount put up the money to produce new prints, and they refused. So after that spat, it looks like the whole thing may have been called off (again, save for the few that can play it themselves, but it doesn’t seem there’ll be much “official” about those runs).

UPDATE: It got postponed to December 6.

        • @falidorn
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          41 month ago

          Unfortunately it happens a lot more than you think. There’s only so much space and tons of movies to store. This is not a one-off.

          I’m not saying you shouldn’t be upset though. Just saying it’s not unusual.

          • HonkyTonkWoman
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            21 month ago

            Yup. I worked on a reality & at the end, we had to wrap all of our camera masters out to Bravo.

            Something like 160 bankers boxes stuffed with 20-30 IMX loads, or roughly 2,000 individual IMX cassettes.

            Not two years later & we started to see our camera masters wiped, recycled, & reused in circulation.

            You are NOT supposed to use used media when recording a show, it’s written rather plainly in the network delivery specs, but… networks are cheap as hell

        • @roofuskit
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          21 month ago

          They don’t own it. 🤷‍♂️

  • @Brkdncr
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    81 month ago

    I thought it was all digital now?

    • @[email protected]
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      121 month ago

      Christopher Nolan is pretty passionate about film. As far as I’m aware, he won’t shoot on digital

      • @Crackhappy
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        41 month ago

        No, but you can transfer the film into digital and get pretty close in quality in a much smaller form factor.