Going to the cinema should mean the whole package: snacks, a drink, and watching your chosen movie the way it was always intended to be seen. Whether or not you’ve experienced a movie Filmed for IMAX before, it’s a spectacle that needs to be seen again and again, with plenty of 2025 movie releases to go and see Filmed for IMAX.
Offering a larger, more expansive and immersive viewing down to every last detail, we explain exactly what a Filmed for IMAX movie is, as well as all the titles available to watch now and coming up throughout the year.
What does it mean when a movie is Filmed for IMAX?
It’s not just about a fancy screen, watching a movie Filmed for IMAX means it’s been specially curated for the format from start-to-finish. Each of these upcoming IMAX movies has utilised either IMAX-certified digital or film cameras, with everything from set to audio to special effects carefully considered and optimised for the most visually immersive film viewing.
How? IMAX-certified cameras are the best in the business, offering the sharpest, brightest, highest-resolution picture. When shooting movies, these are shot in IMAX’s specific aspect ratios, including 1.90:1, branded Expanded Aspect Ratio (EAR). This sees the picture you’ll see in Cineworld 26% larger than a standard cinema screen, getting you up close to the details and offering a unique picture that draws you right in.
And it’s not just about the cameras – post-production utilises IMAX technologies Digital Media Remastering (DMR) to optimise movies, along with ensuring audio packs as much of a heart-pounding punch as the visuals.
So what can you watch upcoming Filmed for IMAX in 2025?
Sinners (booking now)
Michael B. Jordan stars as twin brothers Smoke and Stack Moore in Filmed for IMAX movie Sinners, who return to their hometown in the hope of starting over after years of working with an organised crime unit. Penned as a musical horror movie, there are supernatural elements at work, with the brothers’ newly opened juke joint raising spirits from both the past and the future.
Shot in the highest-resolution cameras available today, cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw is heralded as the first woman to shoot with IMAX film cameras. Doing it for the girls!
The IMAX film cameras are 10 times the resolution of standard 35mm film, and Sinners features 25+ minutes of IMAX’s exclusive EAR, too, offering a larger, more immersive picture. This is juxtaposed with a significantly narrower aspect ratio to really contrast the EAR shots and emphasise scenes jumping out. As with all Filmed for IMAX films, each scene was also enhanced, frame by frame, with IMAX’s proprietary DMR, for a more crisp, detailed picture.
Thunderbolts (booking now)
When you’re going to watch a superhero movie, there really is no other way to watch it than in IMAX. The final instalment of Phase 5 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts brings together a ragtag group of antiheroes, including Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, and Red Guardian, to fight against an evil force and potentially confront their own darkness in the process.
Filmed using IMAX digital cameras, select scenes also feature IMAX’s EAR, providing 26% more picture than non-IMAX cinemas to really draw you into those action-packed sequences. Really, you’re only denying yourself the beauty of killer fight scenes at this point. And if you won’t take our word for it, Head of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige said, “We have said for a long time that IMAX is the best format to watch a movie. We need the big screen experience that you can’t get anywhere else.”
Final Destination Bloodlines (booking now)
Want to see some of the best Final Destination scenes and not miss a moment of every brutal, stomach curdling death on the biggest, crispest screen? Final Destination Bloodlines is available to screen in IMAX, utilising IMAX-certified digital cameras with the film featuring over 50 minutes of the 1.90:1 EAR for the scariest sequences in the movie. Yep, get even closer to the carnage as guts get spilled and death tots up another pile of victims.
Returning to the beginning of the story, Stefanie attempts to understand the violent acts recurring in her nightmares and break the curse. Inevitably, most aren’t lucky enough to evade Death – because, let’s face it, it wouldn’t be a Final Destination movie if people kept surviving, now would it? And IMAX makes the takedown ever more tantalising to hold your stomach through.
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (booking now)
Tom Cruise’s latest instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise is another that’s been given the Filmed for IMAX treatment. And with its most ambitious stunts to date, it’s no wonder. For thrill seekers and longtime Mission: Impossible fans alike, there really is no other option to enjoy the spectacle and risk of Cruise hanging from a biplane, 8,000 feet above the ground in 140 mph winds but in IMAX. This scene in particular is delivered with IMAX’s Expanded Aspect Ratio, allowing you to really take in the scope of the stunt, and every last hair on Ethan Hunt’s head as it blows in the wind.
No CGI required, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is one of IMAX’s marquee titles of the year. This means you’ll have the opportunity to attend one of Cineworld’s IMAX screenings of the film for at least three weeks following its release.
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How to Train Your Dragon (June 9th)
Taking a leaf out of Disney’s book, Dreamworks is bringing to life one of its most beloved film franchise, How to Train Your Dragon. This summer you’ll be able to watch what is sure to be one of the best family movies in 2025 as Hiccup and Toothless take to the skies in the live action version of the movie, and – you know the drill – it's Filmed for IMAX, so you've just got to watch it in IMAX.
Director of the film Dean DeBois worked alongside Cinematographer Bill Pope and the special effects team to ensure every component of the film was optimised for IMAX. Alongside using IMAX-certified digital cameras – of which there were extensive camera tests and demos – tailor made sets were also created to bring the isle of Berk and its vikings and dragons into an awe-inspiring reality. 50 minutes of the movie also offer an immersive spectacle in IMAX’s EAR, offering that aforementioned larger-scale screen.
How to Train Your Dragon is coming to Cineworld on June 9th, with tickets set to go on sale soon.
And there’s even more titles to come in 2025! Look out for the upcoming Superman movie and, for racing car fans, Brad Pitt’s F1, with more details coming soon about how both were filmed for IMAX.
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