The Virginian-Pilot
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BATMAN REELS ’em in on a regular movie screen. Film him with cutting-edge cameras and spread the crusader’s cape across a screen roughly six stories high?
Yeah, that’ll draw the midnight crowds.
And that’s just one reason “The Dark Knight,” the newest film about a man dressed up as a bat, is the first mainstream movie to be partially shot in IMAX.
That’s shorthand for Image Maximum technology, which produces high-quality imagery traditionally reserved for documentaries about whales and ascents of Mount Everest.
“There’s just action happening all over,” said Donna Ellis, who works at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. “Your eyes never stop when you’re looking at something that big.”
In Hampton Roads, the movie debuts Friday with midnight showings – but only two theaters can put the IMAX cut on an IMAX screen: the aquarium in Virginia Beach and the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton. Both venues sold out for their first shows in a matter of days .
No joke(r).
Richard Quinn, (757) 222-5119, richard.quinn@pilotonline.com
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