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That's real, right, not a mock-up or something?

Wow, that's going to make pan-n-scan look palatable by comparison...

Full size? Does that mean I need a six story computer monitor to see it? :)

Surely the IMAX version will be widescreen, not pan-n-scan.

It looks like a mockup...

Notice in this picture (which looks phony) that the image fills the entire IMAX screen. If that's what they're doing for the actual film, then you'll be losing a lot of left and right picture.

Surely Newton Thomas Sigel's scope lensing is more important than a cropped image with periodic gimmicky 3D.

the image looks quite superimposed.

IMAX builds blow-ups off Super 35 and I would guess that the DP was completely aware of that frame whil;e shooting, unlike whoever shot Apollo 13.

"It looks like a mockup..."

My editor said the exact same thing when he saw that and he has a really good idea for that sort of thing.

Looks like Dave's being surfing the photoshop site, Worth1000.com again.
:-)

Dean Cundy shot Apollo 13. He also shot Halloween and Who Framed Roger Rabbit to name two of my famorites.

"IMAX builds blow-ups off Super 35 and I would guess that the DP was completely aware of that frame whil;e shooting, unlike whoever shot Apollo 13."

Apollo 13 was also shot in Super 35. Super 35 allows for shots to be composed for both widescreen and TV. No doubt Apollo 13 was shot the same way, which means that the IMAX "blow-up" (really not a blow-up but a proprietary digital process called DMR) for Apollo 13 was framed properly for the IMAX screen.

But that's a moot point. The fact remains that with full frame IMAX conversions you lose a lot of left and right image, the same as you do for television. I'd rather watch a nice widescreen presentation.

Is there any actual evidence that Superman IMAX won't be widescreen? All the recent theatrical conversions have been, and there's no reason Superman won't be that I'm aware of.

There's the picture Poland posted. Assuming it's legit, then the film is full-frame.

I have only seen a few of the major IMAX screen conversions (Attack of the Clones, Matrix sequel, Harry Potter) and it seems that for these Warner Bros. has met a compromise.

What you end up getting is a semi wide-screen version that does not cut off all of the sides horizontally but also does not reach to the top or bottom of the IMAX screen vetically either.

Hence a film that was shot 2:35 will end up having a more 1:85 look to it. The effect is almost as though you are watching a letterboxed version but on an IMAX screen.

That's how it was on all of the Warner Bros IMAX release versions I saw.

Clones was different whereby Lucas (if I recall) actually digitally reconformed some scenes to fit the whole screen. So the effect was some scenes were cropped and other scenes had middle sections taken out of the composition (ie. on a vista shot)so that the general information was there.

With Superman, I would expect the semi-cropped version.

I only say this because the photo in the picture does not seem to give enough information on the left side of the screen to see what the proper dimensions of the image are.

The image itself however looks completely cropped to fit IMAX.

Without a photo with more context it is somewhat hard to tell.

I asked around and it turns out that this film will not be reformatted with a fill-frame 1.40:1 aspect ratio for IMAX. It will be projected at scope standard 2.35:1.

...which, by the way, means that Poland's picture is a fake and makes me wonder why he posted it.

I put my vote under he posted it to make a crack about a guy measuring the bulge.

Very funny, yes, but are we sure Mr. Fingers really is measuring something? (As opposed to maybe having pointed at something a second earlier?) And this being IMAX, wouldn't he need more than just his fingers?

Nice painting.

BTW, the movie is actually finished, and without too much ridiculousness or 20 hour days, which has happened on previous Singer productions. The post people are out of there as of Friday but are basically done now.

The picture comes form the IMAX corporation...

And as to why I posted, I thought it was amusing in general... and then, when I looked at it full size, I thought it did give a feel for how IMAX feels.

I didn't notice the guy in the corner until just before it went up... and it made me laugh.

At least it's not an illustration of the domed IMAX esperience. I saw the last Harry Potter in a dome. I thought I was gonna need a spine replacement.

Am I the only one who thinks the fan posters for Superman Returns are better than the official ones?

It is a simulated mock-up view that IMAX Corporation does for all their films. They simply drop an official publicity still into the same audience template just like say Best Buy does for its TV set ads. While the 35mm version is locked, the IMAX 3D version is going down to the wire.

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