Big screens, bigger stakes

Gelfond, who acquired IMAX in 1994, looking at a strip of an IMAX movie’s 70mm film at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 in Manhattan. — Yuvraj Khanna/The New York Times

TOM Cruise had a major request: he wanted IMAX to screen his latest Mission: Impossible film – and only that film – on its giant screens for three weeks.

That sort of exclusive run is a rare privilege, even for a Hollywood heavyweight.