He shot like five scenes - the bank heist, the scene where Batman pulls the Chinese dude out of the building in Hong Kong, the chase scene, the final scene and the end scene. Not sure about minutes, but I don't think it was 50 minutes worth (the movie is 152 minutes long, so 1/3 ~ 50 minutes).

It was basically only the action scenes.....the one where the Joker blows up the hospital building was one too. Maybe 30 minutes worth at most.

He also intercut a couple of quick flyover shots of the city in IMAX. But, yeah, the total probably was under a half-hour. Haven't heard how much of this one is full-screen, but the more the merrier.

Can't find the article online now. But a while back I remember reading that he wanted to shoot everything on IMAX. I guess the IMAX cameras are loud? So, this article supposed that everything that wasn't an intimate dialogue heavy scene would be shot in IMAX for this one.

Makes sense. The film frame is around the size of half an iPhone screen so 24 frames equals out to 6 feet per second of film whipping through the camera. I know the projectors are certainly loud (as I sit right now around 2 feet from one showing "Harry Potter"). Most of the dialogue for the documentaries used to end up needing to be overdubbed. And, frankly, talking heads don't need to be in full-frame IMAX anyway.

I didnt know Robin Williams was playing Hugo Strange. How the **** did I miss that?

That has always been a rumor but has it been confirmed finally?

No, i think the IMAX cameras are very large and bulky. It makes shooting scenes difficult.

JD can probably confirm, but there used to be a limit on the amount of time a full IMAX film could run. Like under 2 hours. Thats why IMAX films used to only be like 45 minutes or an hour long back in the day.

Yeah, I just saw the trailer and it was the real deal. Google Dark Knight Rises Trailer. I'd post the link but I'm on my phone.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?bmb=1&d...&v=qCZdatww69w

Link if it hasn't been pulled yet.

That one is a fake

Originally the reel units and platters were only designed for films under an hour. Then they designed longer reel unit arms and larger platters to get to 90 minutes for "Fantasia 2000". Then they stepped up to longer and larger to get to 2 hours for Hollywood films. Finally they did it one more time to get up to 2.5 hours, and with the use of special clamps on the edge of the platter stretched that to around 2:45. "Avatar", at just over 2:42, was the longest I've run, but supposedly you can get another few minutes on there because someone ran "Avatar" with the "Alice In Wonderland" trailer and fit it. So that's the benchmark for IMAX film right now, and I doubt they'd make it any larger since they're phasing out film entirely. But unless your director is James Cameron or Peter Jackson, going over 2:45 probably isn't in your plans anyway. "Batman Begins" was around 2:21 and "The Dark Knight" was around 2:33, so I'd expect "The Dark Knight Rises" to be in that vicinity.

^^ Fake also.

Well, hopefully some of the HP crowd will let us know if any of them are real.