Sydney IMAX goes dark, to be reborn with bragging rights

Why is Sydney's IMAX about to go missing? Why should you grieve? Will there be a happy ending?
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Image: inside, wonder; outside, a very tricky space to develop. 

The most successful IMAX cinemas are in busy locations, humming with activity, like the BFI IMAX outside Waterloo Station in London, or the Lincoln Square outfit in Manhattan. So who has the highest grossing IMAX cinema in the world? 

Sydney’s Darling Harbour. It gets between four and five hundred thousand visitors a year, including 88,000 students who fill the daytime sessions. Those figures beat any other of the 1,106 IMAX cinemas around the world. 

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.