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Transformers 2 Filmed In Part With IMAX Cameras

Thursday, April 9 by Julie Brown

Optimus Prime and the rest of the Autobots return for the live-action follow up to Michael Bay's 2007 blockbuster TRANSFORMERS.

Key sequences of the film will be shot using IMAX® cameras. The IMAX footage will be integrated with the traditional 35mm format. The 35mm footage will be digitally re-mastered into The IMAX Experience® using IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The IMAX DMR scenes will appear in the traditional "letterbox" shape, while scenes shot with IMAX’s cameras will expand vertically to fill the entire IMAX screen.

“You will see Devastator in IMAX,” director Michael Bay said of the massive Decepticon, glimpsed in the trailer and formed when several Decepticons come together. “You heard it here first.”


Transformers 2 is due to start at the IMAX Theatre in Darling Harbour on June 25.

  • Keaven 463 years ago
    Can't wait
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  • Julie Brown 456 years ago
    Like The Dark Knight, Transformers 2 will expand vertically in key scenes to fill the entire IMAX screen - that's 8 storeys high. This will be only the second time IAMX 15/70mm film has been used in a major feature film release. Should look great! We're looking forward to it too!
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  • lolthisisnotandrew 453 years ago
    Holy mother Cow 8 storeys! that's like 12 3 4 5 6 7 EIGHT GREAT BARRIER REEF!!
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  • Alan 444 years ago
    Absolutely cannot wait for this. Shame Terminator Salvation is not going to be on IMAX also.
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