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American IMAX films

  • The Mandalorian and GroguThe Mandalorian and Grogu had its world premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on the 14th of May 2026. It was the first Star Wars film to open in…
  • Captain America: Civil WarCaptain America: Civil War arrived in theaters on the 6th of May 2016, carrying a question that no superhero film had seriously asked before: what happens…
  • Avengers: EndgameAvengers: Endgame begins with a family disintegrating on screen. In its opening scene, Clint Barton loses his wife and children to Thanos's snap.
  • Justice League (film)Justice League spent part of its 2017 reshoot schedule removing a mustache. Henry Cavill, who played Superman, had grown facial hair for Mission: Impossible…
  • Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3DMagnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D dropped into IMAX theaters on the 23rd of September 2005, inviting audiences to stand on the lunar surface…
  • Avengers: Age of UltronAvengers: Age of Ultron arrived on the 1st of May 2015, carrying a price tag that few films in history had matched: a net production budget of $365 million.
  • Avengers: Infinity WarAvengers: Infinity War ends with its villain sitting alone on a distant planet, watching a sunrise. He has just erased half of all life in the universe.
  • First Man (film)First Man, the 2018 biographical drama directed by Damien Chazelle, opens not with the Moon but with a moment of quiet terror.
  • The Avengers (2012 film)The Avengers opened on the 4th of May 2012, in the United States, and within 19 days it had passed $1 billion in ticket sales, matching a record previously…
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey2001: A Space Odyssey premiered on the 2nd of April 1968 at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., before an audience that included critics who were, in…
  • Jaws (film)Jaws, the 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, begins with a simple and terrifying image: a young woman swimming alone at night, and then something…
  • Deadpool & WolverineDeadpool & Wolverine almost went by a different name. In February 2024, a title leaked online: Deadpool & Friend. Ryan Reynolds later claimed it had been the…
  • Transformers: Dark of the MoonTransformers: Dark of the Moon opens with a secret. In 1962, according to the film's premise, a spacecraft called the Ark crash-lands on the far side of the…
  • Thor (film)Thor, the 2011 Marvel Studios superhero film, opened its world premiere at the Event Cinemas theatre on George Street in Sydney on the 17th of April 2011.
  • Apocalypse NowApocalypse Now arrived in theaters on the 15th of August 1979, and it carried on its back over a million feet of film, a near-fatal heart attack, a typhoon…
  • InceptionInception begins with a question that Christopher Nolan first put to paper around 2001: what if someone could steal your secrets while you slept?
  • Star Wars: The Last JediStar Wars: The Last Jedi is dedicated to Carrie Fisher, who played General Leia Organa and died on the 27th of December 2016.
  • Rogue OneRogue One: A Star Wars Story ends with two lead characters trapped in a citadel on Scarif, unable to escape a demolition beam.
  • Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker carried a net budget of about $490.2 million. That made it the second most expensive film ever produced.
  • Apollo 13 (film)Apollo 13, the 1995 film directed by Ron Howard, opens on the night of the 20th of July, 1969, with astronaut Jim Lovell watching Neil Armstrong take his…
  • Titanic (1997 film)Titanic, the 1997 film written and directed by James Cameron, began not on a Hollywood lot but at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Star Wars: The Force AwakensStar Wars: The Force Awakens arrived in theaters on the 18th of December 2015, carrying a weight that almost no film in history had to bear.
  • Ex Machina (film)Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction film that opens with an office prize nobody expects: a solitary week at the isolated home of a tech CEO.
  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the ClonesStar Wars: Episode II, Attack of the Clones premiered on Sunday, the 12th of May 2002. The screening took place at the BMCC Performing Arts Center in New…
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves premiered at South by Southwest on the 10th of March 2023. The film's existence owed as much to legal history as to…
  • Everything Everywhere All at OnceEverything Everywhere All at Once was originally written for a man. The script's first version had a male lead, conceived specifically with Jackie Chan in…
  • Men in Black 3Men in Black 3 began as a conversation between two men stuck on a film they weren't sure they wanted to make again. Will Smith pitched the idea for a third…
  • The Beatles: Get BackThe Beatles: Get Back opens with a scene from January 1969. Paul McCartney sits at his guitar, waiting for John Lennon, who is running late.
  • Barbie (film)The concept of a live-action Barbie film first emerged in the mid-1980s at Cannon Films, but nothing came to fruition. Renewed development began in September…
  • Solo: A Star Wars StorySolo: A Star Wars Story premiered in Los Angeles on the 10th of May 2018. It carried a budget of nearly $300 million, one of the largest ever committed to a…
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reached theaters in 2023, decades after Paramount Pictures signed a deal in 1979 for five Indiana Jones films.
  • Alita: Battle AngelAlita: Battle Angel existed as nothing more than a registered domain name years before it became a movie. Around June 2000, 20th Century Fox registered…