Despite already coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray, The Dark Knight returns today to 143 IMAX theaters here in the U.S. and 29 more abroad in the wake of its eight Oscar nominations.
This has been the plan ever since Warner Bros. realized Knight would be a major Oscar contender. (It would’ve helped if it had actually been nominated for Best Picture, Director, or Screenplay like it should have been, but I digress.) With a little luck, the film might now pass the $1 billion mark worldwide (its total currently sits at $997 million), becoming only the fourth film to ever do that after Titanic, the third Lord of the Rings, and the second Pirates of the Caribbean.
So why should you pony up the money for a trip to an IMAX screen when you can sit at home and watch it on your fancy widescreen TV and your fancy Blu-Ray player? Because IMAX is HUGE. And six sequences in the movie were specifically shot with IMAX cameras — the first major motion picture to do so. In other words, that’s where it’s meant to be seen. I saw it on an IMAX and ended up calling it the best movie of 2008.
This press release features all the locations at which you can see it.
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