Birmingham IMAX to reopen under new name
August 11, 2011 – 4:37 pmThe Birmingham Post reports:
Birmingham’s IMAX cinema is to close down and reopen under a new name as an independent venue offering new state-of-the-art digital technology.
Instead of being tied into IMAX products, the cinema at Millennium Point will show the biggest new releases and even special event broadcasts such as the Olympics, Wimbledon, theatre and opera.
The 385-seat cinema will cease trading as an IMAX screen on September 14, two weeks before its 10th birthday.
It is planned to reopen before October 22 in time to be able to screen Steven Spielberg’s latest film, The Adventures of Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which is released on October 26.
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This is a shame about Birmingham losing its Imax.
Pity Imax could’nt have come to some arrangement for a digital system. Although perhaps Imax digital dose’nt allow for the showing of alternative content(sports events, opera etc.)which this venue seems keen to tap into. I’ve
only been there the once and that was earlier this year.I shall be keen to see what kind of system they install.
Will other UK 15/70 theatres go down the same road I ask myself.Is the present Imax digital system good enough to fill a screen 80ft plus.
The Bfi Imax here in London has a 2k digital projector as well as Imax and a 35/70mm projector so they can show anything that comes along. unfortunately Birmingham dose’nt seem to have had that capability.
sincerely Rogmax
there seems to be less and less 15/70 3d theaters around. it’s too bad — digital will eventually get to that quality i think, but not there yet.