IMAX is exploring a sale and has approached entertainment companies as potential buyers, according to people familiar with the situation. The sale process is in early stages and may not result in a deal, the people said.

IMAX’s search for a buyer comes as premium theatrical experiences are growing faster than the overall box office. Movies have grossed about $2.9 billion domestically this year, the highest total for the comparable period since before the pandemic, according to Box Office Mojo.

Premium screens including IMAX accounted for 16% of ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada through early April, compared with 13% during the same period in 2021, according to data firm EntTelligence.

At an investor meeting in December, IMAX Chief Executive Rich Gelfond said his firm will be “an incredibly valuable player, either as a wholly differentiated publicly traded company or as part of a larger company.”

Damn

Will be bought by Paramount and become a Paramount exclusive format

when it gets ruined and IMAX as a format dies

they kinda had the industry and all the studios sweating and playing catch up/playing to IMAX’s rhythm. sad to see them fall in line. although if this leads whoever buys them to build 100s of more real imax screens for people all across the whole world i would be excited.

ok ill buy

^ this guy ^ is expecting a corporation to do something that benefits the public

ktt2 groupbuy

let's all chip in

After all this hype and we can’t get real imax in all
Major cities they still fall

Putting imax theatres all around the world would benefit the corp that buys it too it is in the interest of whoever buys this to build hundreds more than they currently have

doin this after disney started they own s*** is fried

IMAX is kinda like…not a well managed company so not entirely surprised

It’s 2026 and there’s still numerous screens out there that haven’t even upgraded from Xenon projection. Quality bounces all over the places after you get past the the well known screens and theaters

As long as screens still exist and Hollywood uses its cameras I think this will largely be fine. They also depend a ton on overseas (China). Companies sell.

they are literally just going keep licensing their names out to theaters who install liemax's

everything sucks now, man

But why smh

In

They know the odyssey finna flop
Smart.

tickets gonna be $50 a pop

Had Coogler do all that promo to drive up the price.

Scared of Infinity Vision

All these exclusivity deals and they are struggling

70mm iMax already is

False

crazy how much of this and our problems come down to real estate issues and rent