There's been a lot of publicity and viral marketing for the movie The Dark Knight, which is a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins from director Christopher Nolan.  The film is going to be released in the Summer of 2008, and it looks awesome.  The latest news, though, is that Nolan is shooting parts of this film in the IMAX format!  There is a video available at the IMAX website, which has a short interview with Nolan and Director of Photography Wally Pfister, which you should check out.

The video is quite insightful, and towards the end, Nolan says that the IMAX format would take one back to the old days, where seeing something on a large screen would inspire awe.  I can certainly agree, having seen a few IMAX films (both regular films converted to this format, and films shot for the format itself), that the experience is definitely far beyond seeing a movie in a regular theatre.

Wally Pfister has shot all of Nolan's films till date — Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige (by the way, he received Oscar nominations for the last two), and he talks about the advantages of shooting in this format (with respect to resolution and something called lighting latitude, which I guess is the same as exposure latitude).  Apparently the cameras are also four to five times heavier than the standard cameras used to shoot movies, which means that they had to approach rigging up shots differently as well.  Anyway, this is just another reason to look forward to The Dark Knight!  By the way, the music in that video clip is awesome (I guess composers James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer are back for another round)!

In other unrelated news, I got this today — a bootleg soundtrack album of Police Academy!