Oppenheimer hits cinemas today - and Manchester has a very special version of it
21.07.2023 - 13:59
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated thriller Oppenheimer hits cinemas today. The movie stars Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy, Iron Man Robert Downey Jr and Emily Blunt, and tells the story of the creation of the atomic bomb dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski.
It was released in cinemas across the UK on Friday (July 21), but there's something very special about the version being shown right here in Manchester.
The VUE Cinema at the Printworks is one of just 30 theatres in the world - with only six being outside of the US, three of which are in the UK - to screen Oppenheimer in an an IMAX 70mm film format.
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The 70mm IMAX is one of the rarest film formats. The last movie in the Printworks shown in this format was Dunkirk - also starring Cillian Murphy alongside Harry Styles - which was released six years ago.
The VUE invited the Manchester Evening News to give us an inside look at the 70mm IMAX film tape and how the film gets projected onto the screen.
The tape is said to be over 11 miles long when fully laid out and weighs around 270 kilograms making it one of the biggest film tapes in history.
Oppenheimer is currently sold out for the first five days of the 70mm screenings with people worldwide coming to Manchester to watch the film.
VUE Cinema will be doing a mini-game to find out who has traveled the furthest to Manchester to watch the film with one person reportedly coming all the way from Dublin.
The tape itself had to be taken to the cinema on a pallet due to the weight while the projector has always been in the cinema and was reinstalled for the film.
To be projected, the tape runs across the feed disc