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Near, Far, Wherever You Are (Not): Is The Dark Knight Rises IMAX Prologue Playing In Your City?

By Rob Payne | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (12)

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We’ve known for a while that IMAX screenings of Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol would showcase a six minute prologue to The Dark Knight Rises starting December 16, 2011. Christopher Nolan has also said that the prologue would feature the movie’s main villain, Tom Hardy’s Bane, in much the same way that The Dark Knight featured a masterful prologue starring Heath Ledger’s Joker.

Between now and then, there have been plenty of rumors in the fanperson universe about exactly what the mysterious prologue will entail, including but not limited to Bane confronting Batman moments after the conclusion of Knight and an entire Bane origin sequence that traces the main story beats from the first hour of Batman Begins. None are really worthy of being recalled in detail, being little more than fan fiction at this point, but if you decide to seek them out, there are definitely worse things on the Internet.

But finally we have some solid information to report about the Banerrific prologue for The Dark Knight Rises, mainly that not only will only IMAX theaters feature the extended look at the Most Anticipated Movie of All Time, but only a few, specific IMAX theaters will even show it. Namely, these 42 theaters in these 34 cities. Suffice to say, Dallas/Fort Worth (aka, the DFW Metroplex) is not one of them, which means I may have to take an unexpected trip to Austin in a couple weeks. Did your city make the cut?

Austin, TX - IMAX Theater Austin
Boston, MA - Jordan’s IMAX - Natick
Boston, MA - IMAX 3D Theatre in Reading
Calgary, AB - Scotiabank Theatre Chinook 16
Chantilly, VA - Udvar-Hazy Center IMAX
Chicago, IL - Navy Pier IMAX Theatre
Des Moines, IA - SCI IMAX Dome Theater
Detroit, MI - Henry Ford IMAX - Dearborn
Edmonton, AB - Scotiabank Theatre Edmonton
Harrisburg, PA - Whitaker Center for Science & the Arts
Houston, TX - Houston Marq*e Stadium 22 + IMAX
Indianapolis - White River IMAX
Los Angeles, CA - Irvine Spectrum 21 + IMAX - Irvine
Los Angeles, CA - RAVE 18 + IMAX
Los Angeles, CA - Ontario Palace Stadium 22 + IMAX - Ontario
Los Angeles, CA - CityWalk Stadium 19 with IMAX - Universal City
Madison, WI - Star Fitchburg 18 with IMAX - Fitchburg
Miami, FL - AutoNation IMAX - Fort Lauderdale
Minneapolis, MN - Great Clips IMAX - Apple Valley
Montreal, QC - Cinema Banque Scotia Montreal
Nashville,TN - Opry Mills Stadium 20 + IMAX
Atlantic City, NJ - IMAX at the Tropicana
New York, NY - Lincoln Square 13 with IMAX
New York, NY - Palisades IMAX - West Nyack
Omaha, NE - Star Cinema 16 with IMAX - Council Bluffs
Orlando, FL - Regal Pointe Orlando Stadium 20 + IMAX
Ottawa, ON - SilverCity Gloucester + IMAX - Gloucester
Palm Springs, CA - Desert IMAX Theatre - Cathedral City
Philadelphia, PA - Tuttleman IMAX - Franklin Institute
Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Mills 25 with IMAX - Tempe
Providence, RI - Providence Place 16 with IMAX
Quebec City, QC - IMAX Le Theatre At Quebec
Sacramento, CA - Esquire IMAX
San Antonio, TX - IMAX at RiverCenter
San Francisco, CA - Metreon 16 with IMAX & ETX
Seattle, WA - Boeing IMAX - Pacific Science Center
Tampa, FL - Museum of Science and Industry
Toronto, ON - Coliseum 12 Mississauga + IMAX
Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Theatre Toronto + IMAX
Toronto, ON - Colossus 18 Woodbridge + IMAX - Woodbridge-Vaughan
Vancouver, BC - Colossus Langley + IMAX - Langley
Vancouver, BC - SilverCity Riverport + IMAX - Richmond

If you find yourself living in one of these lucky cities, I really don’t want to hear about it. I may not be able to stop myself from hiring someone (probably TK) to sever both of your Achilles tendons. Just sayin’.

(via The AV Club)

Rob Payne also writes the indie comic The Unstoppable Force, tweets on the Twitter @RobOfWar, and his ware can be purchased here. He was this close to buying tickets for Ghost Protocol at the local IMAX before seeing this list. So, he did dodge a bullet, but not happily.









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Comments

I would also add that the IMAX at Waterloo in London is showing the Dark Knight Rises prologue. It's very tempting to go see. But I'm holding back.

Just.

Posted by: Yastobaal at December 5, 2011 11:40 AM

Jesus Christ people, some of you must have been a real pain in the ass at Christmastime growing up. Wait already. It's coming whether you see this now or not. I am not- repeat NOT, going to give Tom Cruise money for his shitty movie just so I can see the first few minutes to another movie I plan to go see next year in its entirety anyway.

Speaking of which, whose knob did he gladly shine to have his movie selected as the one that gets to have this footage riding in front? Whatever this teaser has, it ain't worth giving Captain Couchtrip and the Xenu-teers an artificially swelled source of income.

By the way, anyone who can't hold their wad long enough that they absolutely have to give someone else money to see this is likely someone I wouldn't want to share company in a theater anyway. You're either paying twice for one movie, or you're playing for two movies even if you didn't really want to see the first one. Save your money, I have no doubt it will show up for free somewhere online soon enough anyway.

Posted by: bleujayone at December 5, 2011 11:55 AM

I've done a lot to avoid seeing Dark Knight Rises spoiler but I might have to do this.
(Henry Ford IMAX REPRESENT)
And truthfully, Ghost Protocol will probably be amazing. I'd have doubts if Brad Bird had ever made anything bad. But he hasn't. He makes good things. Only good things.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at December 5, 2011 12:03 PM

i hate living in Connecticut.

Posted by: Soda Stereo at December 5, 2011 12:05 PM

FUCK YEAH, MINNEAPOLIS

Posted by: ChristianH at December 5, 2011 12:12 PM

Who the hell doesn't want to see Ghost Protocol anyway?! It looks terrific! The only question for me is if I want to drive an hour to Indy to see it on IMAX at inflated prices for this. But likely, I'll just see it in a normal theater and wait a few weeks until the DKR prologue is released as an official trailer.

Posted by: TylerDFC at December 5, 2011 12:25 PM

None are really worthy of being recalled in detail, being little more than fan fiction at this point

No, not "little more than." Fanfic is exactly what it is, brought to you by the authors of OMFG CATWOMAN EARS!!1

Posted by: Jast at December 5, 2011 12:47 PM

I'm gonna be in Orlando in mid February. Is the preview slated to be with the movie during the whole run?

Posted by: Gus at December 5, 2011 1:00 PM

CHantilly VA and NOT Washington DC?! F***ing Virginia...

Posted by: bananapanda at December 5, 2011 1:12 PM

FUCK YEAH, MINNEAPO... oh.

...

Goddam you, ChrisitanH.

Posted by: Skitz at December 5, 2011 2:31 PM

IMAX at Jordan's Furniture in Natick REPRESENT! I worked there for ten years and I feel famous. And special. And also famous.

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