Imax CEO Rich Gelfond said the big screen exhibitor will be showing Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein for a limited run at a small number of locations.
He didn’t give a number but Deadline hears it will be a quite limited footprint of about 10 screenings.
“It really is a theatrical movie,” Gelfond said at the Axios Media Live conference in New York. “You know, Frankenstein and Imax is great synergy. He’s big. Imax is big, loud,” he joked. He said it will debut on Imax in “a couple of weeks.”
The new adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley novel starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac premiered at Venice last month, see Deadline review. Netflix is planning a limited theatrical release on October 17 with the streaming debut on November 7.
The giant streamer, which just had a massive theatrical hit with KPop Demons Hunters, generally shies away from theatrical to the dismay of theater owners. In a high-profile agreement, its adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia by Greta Gerwig an exclusive two-week Imax global run in fall of 2026, in 90 countries across 1,000 auditoriums, in advance of the pic’s streaming debut.
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