Technology Products and Services took $251.3M of $410.2M in 2025… one theater owned, 881 locations on revenue share as of June 2026
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has taken $289 million on IMAX screens, the highest total for any release in the format's history. More than 26% of the film's worldwide gross came from IMAX auditoriums. IMAX box office reached $257 million in July alone, the company's biggest month since it was founded in 1967.
Total cinema admissions have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. The share taken by premium screens has grown. IMAX global box office reached $1.28 billion (about 1.7224 trillion won) in 2025, up 40% year on year, and its share of the worldwide theatrical gross rose to a company record 3.8%. IMAX auditoriums account for 1% of the world's cinema screens.
What has not changed as those numbers grew is that IMAX owns and operates exactly one theater. The company does not buy or build auditoriums. It lends its name and its technology to exhibitors and collects fees. Of $410.2 million (about 552 billion won) in 2025 revenue, Content Solutions — the film side — accounted for $151.3 million, while Technology Products and Services, the business of selling, leasing and maintaining projection systems, accounted for $251.3 million.
Rich Gelfond, chief executive of IMAX, described the past year as an "IMAX awakening" in a CNBC Make It video published Aug. 29. "Instead of saying, you know, what movie should I go to, they would say, I want to go to the IMAX," he said, adding that the company had "hit a tipping point." Adjusted EBITDA for 2025 was $184.9 million at a 45.1% margin, both company records.
The Odyssey at $289M in IMAX as of Aug. 10… July the company's biggest month
IMAX announced on Aug. 10 that The Odyssey had passed $289 million in cumulative IMAX box office, the highest for any release in the company's history, in under four weeks. Domestic IMAX gross was $147 million. The 41 IMAX 70mm film auditoriums worldwide contributed $37.5 million on their own, and the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles accounted for $2.8 million from a single location. Advance sales for future showtimes stood at nearly $40 million at the time of the announcement.
The Odyssey is the first full-length commercial feature shot entirely with IMAX film cameras. It opened to $52 million in IMAX, which was 20% of the worldwide gross that weekend, and has since passed $1.1 billion globally to become Nolan's highest-grossing film. "We had the very highest of hopes for The Odyssey from the start, but it somehow continues to exceed them," Gelfond said in the Aug. 10 announcement.
When IMAX 70mm tickets for Dune: Part Three went on sale Aug. 19, the AMC and Fandango ticketing sites went down under the load, and a line formed around the block outside AMC Lincoln Square in New York before sales opened. The film is still months from release.
Content Solutions $151.3M, Technology $251.3M in 2025… 12.5% average share of IMAX gross
IMAX revenue splits into two segments. Content Solutions covers what studios pay the company to convert and distribute their films in IMAX versions. In return IMAX receives an average of 12.5% of that film's IMAX box office. The segment brought in $151.3 million (about 204 billion won) in 2025, up 21% year on year.
The larger line is Technology Products and Services — selling or leasing projection systems and collecting maintenance fees. That segment generated $251.3 million (about 338 billion won) in 2025, up 16%, and made up 61% of revenue that year.
Gelfond described the structure this way in the CNBC Make It video: "Theater chains around the world or institutions, out-of-home experience companies, come to us and they say they want to be in the IMAX business.
So, we license our name and our technology to them. We design the location, we help assess it in the installation of the IMAX theater, we oversee it, we get a maintenance fee from them, which keeps it running and enables us to monitor the theaters 24/7 on a global basis to make sure the experience is at the quality standard we need to represent our brand."
881 of 1,809 commercial locations on revenue share at end-June 2026… backlog of 421
There are two ways for an exhibitor to put in an IMAX auditorium. Under a sales arrangement the theater pays most of the cost of the system up front. The alternative is a joint revenue sharing arrangement, or JRSA, in which IMAX carries the majority of the equipment and installation cost and takes a percentage of box office over a long term instead — closer to rent. These contracts typically run at least 10 years.
As of June 30, 2026, of 1,809 IMAX commercial multiplex systems, 799 were traditional JRSAs and 82 were hybrid JRSAs, for 881 on revenue-share terms — close to half the network. Another 928 were sales arrangements.
Nearly half the IMAX commercial network was installed on revenue-share terms. Source=IMAX Q2 2026 results
Rich Gelfond, chief executive of IMAX. Photo=CNBC Make It
Gelfond gave two reasons for the shift toward revenue sharing. "One reason is because of the COVID pandemic. A lot of the exhibitors aren't as liquid as they once were. So, essentially, we're providing the capital to enable it," he said. The second is risk. "If it was a location I knew was going to be great, I'd put up all the money, but if I'm not sure, I'll hedge my risk a little."
The system backlog stood at 421 units at the end of June 2026 — 234 sales arrangements, 182 traditional JRSAs and five hybrids. IMAX installed 160 systems in 2025, up 10%, and signed 166, up 28%. In the second quarter of 2026 it installed 38 and signed 36. At the same date the full IMAX system network, commercial and institutional combined, stood at 1,876.
$27.77 for 70mm against a $16.30 average… 1% of screens, 3.8% of 2025 gross
By CNBC Make It's Aug. 29 figures, a U.S. IMAX 70mm screening costs about $27.77, against a nationwide average movie ticket of $16.30 — 1.7 times as much. IMAX auditoriums make up 1% of the world's cinema screens and took 3.8% of the global theatrical gross in 2025.
CNBC laid the structure out as a loop. Theaters want IMAX because audiences will pay a premium for it; that audience makes IMAX more valuable to filmmakers and studios; more films are built and marketed around the format, which gives more theaters a reason to install it. IMAX collects a fee at each step. The same video noted that IMAX's most valuable asset may not be its technology but the four letters above the theater door.
Local language films took $405 million (about 545 billion won) in IMAX box office in 2025, up 66% year on year and 32% of the $1.28 billion total. For 2026 the company has guided to $1.4 billion in IMAX box office, 160 to 175 system installations and an adjusted EBITDA margin in the mid-40s. Net income attributable to common shareholders was $34.9 million in 2025, up 34%, with adjusted net income of $80.6 million and a 60.0% gross margin.
Disney launched Infinity Vision PLF certification in April… 300 screens worldwide
Dolby Cinema, Regal's RPX and Cinemark's XD compete for the same audience. On April 16 at CinemaCon, The Walt Disney Studios announced Infinity Vision, a certification for premium large-format auditoriums requiring the largest screens, laser projection and premium audio formats. More than 75 domestic and 300 global exhibitor PLF screens are covered. Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame re-release and Avengers: Doomsday are the first titles to carry it.
"Infinity Vision certification extends that commitment to the theaters themselves, representing a shared effort between The Walt Disney Studios and the exhibition community," Andrew Cripps, head of theatrical distribution for The Walt Disney Studios, said in the April 16 announcement.
In the CNBC Make It video Gelfond said of the competition: "A lot of attributes which IMAX has, like a proprietary projection system, film camera, the ability to have proprietary film releases, virtually none of them have that. What most of them have is an X in their name and an off-the-shelf projector."
Infinity Vision does not manufacture projection equipment. It is a certification through which a studio decides which auditoriums carry its tentpoles and under what name. Given that IMAX's Content Solutions revenue comes from individual agreements with studios, a distributor holding its own certification can affect the terms of those agreements.
Abu Dhabi funds Sphere's $1.7bn build… Cosm buys NBA and NFL rights directly
Sphere Entertainment signed its franchise agreement with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) for Sphere Abu Dhabi in July 2025, and in May 2026 disclosed the Yas Island site and the $1.7 billion (about 2.288 trillion won) construction contract. DCT Abu Dhabi funds the construction in full. Sphere Entertainment supplies the designs, the technology and the intellectual property and receives a franchise initiation fee plus ongoing royalties over an initial 25-year term, with no capital expenditure of its own.
Capacity is up to 20,000, matching Las Vegas, and completion is targeted for the end of 2029. "Sphere Abu Dhabi is the first step in realizing our vision for a global network of venues," said James L. Dolan, executive chairman and chief executive of Sphere Entertainment.
Sphere Las Vegas opened in September 2023 at a construction cost of $2.3 billion (about 3.096 trillion won). In 2024 it grossed $420.5 million (about 566 billion won) from 1.3 million concert tickets, the highest annual venue gross in Billboard Boxscore history. A 6,000-capacity mini Sphere is planned near Washington, carrying roughly $200 million (about 269 billion won) in state, local and private incentives. The London project, which Sphere would have built itself, was scrapped in January 2024.
Cosm builds and operates its own venues. Each is about 65,000 square feet (roughly 6,040 square meters) with an 87-foot (about 26.5-meter) 12K-class LED dome seating around 1,500, in what the company calls shared reality.
Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Grandscape in The Colony near Dallas and Centennial Yards in Atlanta are open; Campus Martius in Detroit follows in September and Rock Block in Cleveland in 2027. Tickets run from $17 to $600 (about 23,000 to 807,000 won).
How Cosm fills its venues differs from IMAX. Where IMAX takes a film print from a studio and shares the gross, Cosm signs media rights directly with leagues and networks. It struck a deal with ESPN in March 2024 for NBA, NHL, tennis and college football, and in October that year agreed with the NFL to produce and show selected regular-season games at its venues.
In October 2025 it signed a long-term NBA agreement running through 2030 and beyond, covering marquee games carried on ABC/ESPN, NBC/Peacock and Prime Video plus selected All-Star, playoff and Finals games. College football comes through NBC Sports.
Its opening-week guide listed Clemson at LSU and Wisconsin against Notre Dame at Lambeau Field. "The response from fans at Cosm domes last year demonstrated what an incredible way it is to experience an NBA game," Teddy Kaplan, the NBA's vice president and head of new media partnerships, said in the Oct. 30, 2025 announcement.
Cosm does not carry the whole build cost itself: mixed-use developers bring it in as a foot-traffic anchor and put up the site and part of the capital. It raised $250 million (about 337 billion won) in August 2024 at a valuation above $1 billion, adding Marc Lasry's Avenue Sports, Dan Gilbert's Rock, Baillie Gifford and David Blitzer's Bolt Ventures to existing backers Steve Winn and Mirasol Capital.
Sony Pictures Entertainment announced a further $100 million (about 135 billion won) on June 24, 2026. "We are bringing on new financial partners… providing invaluable insights and growth capital that will help us achieve our biggest vision," Jeb Terry, president and chief executive of Cosm, said in the August 2024 announcement, and Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Ravi Ahuja said in a CoStar report of June 30 that "Cosm sits at the intersection of several trends shaping the future of entertainment."
Arena-scale venues near 20,000 seats sit alongside auditorium-scale venues under 1,500. Source=company announcements, Seoul city government, Hanam city government
IMAX owns no auditoriums and pays the installation cost in exchange for a share of box office. Sphere hands over brand and technology while the client funds construction. Cosm builds its own venues and buys its own rights. All three sell a product the audience pays a premium for. What separates them is how much of their own capital each unit consumes, and whether the content comes from someone else or from a contract they signed.
All 27 IMAX screens in Korea run by CGV… CJ 4DPLEX raised 220bn won in September
Korea has roughly 27 IMAX auditoriums, all operated by CJ CGV (CJ CGV, 씨제이 씨지브이). None of them can screen 70mm film. The largest, CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall (CGV 용산아이파크몰), is an IMAX with Laser GT digital auditorium; the country's only 70mm film venue, the 63 Building IMAX (63빌딩 아이맥스), closed in 2015. The structure is the same in Korea as everywhere else: the auditoriums are CJ CGV assets, and IMAX supplies the brand, the equipment and the maintenance.
During The Odyssey's run, all six daily showings in that 624-seat auditorium sold out through Aug. 25. Tickets ran about 20,000 won (roughly $15), some 30% above a standard screening, and resold on secondary markets at around 100,000 won (roughly $74), five times face value. Choi Jin-bong (최진봉), a professor of journalism and broadcasting at Sungkonghoe University (성공회대학교), said in an Aug. 10 report carried on Daum (다음) that the pattern "reflects a trend of saving where you can and spending willingly on consumption that carries value."
A Korean company runs the same model. CJ 4DPLEX (CJ 4DPLEX, 씨제이 포디플렉스), a CJ CGV subsidiary, raised 220 billion won (about $164 million) from the National Growth Fund (국민성장펀드) in September 2026, earmarked for reducing debt, upgrading technology and expanding screens overseas. Like IMAX, 4DX and ScreenX license a format rather than own theaters. Choi Yong-hyun (최용현), an analyst at KB Securities (KB증권), said in a Sept. 7 Financial News (파이낸셜뉴스) report that "global user demand for specialized theaters is strengthening," citing the share performance of IMAX and Sphere Entertainment. The same note put CJ CGV at 7.6 times EV/EBITDA against 14.5 times for IMAX as of Sept. 7.
Revenue in a format-licensing business depends on what content opens in that format. IMAX has said it will expand its local-language slate in 2026, naming Ramayana Part 1 in India and Spider-Man: Brand New Day for Korea, China and Japan. A Katy Perry concert film is set for a global IMAX release in September.
Korea's Culture Future Strategy for the AI Era due in Q3… AIDC act effective March 2027
The National AI Strategy Committee (국가인공지능전략위원회) held its first-anniversary results briefing at Seoul Square on Sept. 8. The president chairs it, and standing vice chair Ha Jung-woo (하정우) gave the keynote on policy recommendations toward making Korea a top-three AI nation, before about 150 people from the committee's 10 subcommittees, two special committees and legal task force. In February the committee adopted the National AI Action Plan (대한민국 인공지능행동계획), built from 99 implementation tasks and 326 policy recommendations under three policy pillars and 12 strategic fields.
Three of those items touch immersive venues and content production technology: the culture strategy, the provisions on training use of copyrighted works, and data-center infrastructure.
Culture sits with the Society subcommittee, chaired by Yoo Jae-yeon (유재연), which will produce a Culture Future Strategy for the AI Era (AI 시대 문화 미래전략) by the third quarter. What content archives are worth is set by the Data subcommittee under Baek Eun-ok (백은옥), which wrote measures to promote balanced use of copyrighted works in AI training, and principles for a personal-data exemption for AI use, into the action plan. What broadcasters' and producers' video and audio libraries fetch as training data rests on those provisions.
Production infrastructure sits with the Technology Innovation and Infrastructure subcommittee under Shin Jin-woo (신진우), which wrote domestic NPUs and AI data-center equipment into the AIDC national strategic industry plan and put incentives for siting AI data centers outside the capital region into the AIDC special act, effective March 2027. Rendering 12K-class dome imagery and mastering for large-format screens draws on data-center capacity.
"What matters most now is carrying the foundation of the past year into changes that citizens and companies can feel," Ha said at the briefing, adding that the committee's second term would "connect the capabilities we need across ministry and sector lines and work harder to clear the obstacles on the ground." He said the committee would support Korea in becoming "an irreplaceable link in the global AI supply chain" while making AI's opportunities and benefits available to everyone.
What IMAX, Sphere and Cosm sell is a specification for exhibition and performance; the content that runs on it is made in each country. IMAX took $405 million from local language films in 2025, 32% of its total. The Culture Future Strategy, the provisions on AI training use of copyrighted works and the AIDC special act set the terms Korean-made content meets when it goes onto those specifications.
240.6bn won proposed for culture technology in 2027… 25bn won for K-Culture live
Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (문화체육관광부) said on Sept. 8 that its proposed 2027 culture-technology budget is 240.6 billion won (about $179 million), 13.7% above this year's 211.5 billion won: 177.4 billion won for R&D, 60 billion won for funds and 3.2 billion won for commercialization support. It is the largest R&D program the ministry has mounted since it began funding R&D in 2003.
R&D takes 74% of the proposed 240.6 billion won culture-technology budget. Source=Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
The largest new line is 25 billion won (about $18.6 million) for "K-Culture live performance viewing experience innovation technology" — technology to make concerts and sports watched in premium auditoriums and cinemas feel like being at the event. That is the same product category IMAX, Sphere and Cosm sell. Other new lines include 3.1 billion won for AI copyright trust governance technology, 5 billion won for K-Culture on-site solutions and 6.2 billion won for K-Museum technology.
Seoul Arena (서울아레나), with Kakao (카카오) as lead investor, started construction in November 2023 and held its groundbreaking ceremony in July 2024.
It has 18,269 seats and capacity up to 28,000, was 72.5% complete as of August 2026 and targets completion in the first half of 2027. Hanam K-Star World (하남 K-스타월드) carries a total project cost of 4.2183 trillion won (about $3.13 billion) and includes a K-venue of more than 20,000 seats, a K-pop platform and K-studios; a call for private participants went out in March 2026, with groundbreaking targeted for 2028 and completion for 2031. Bringing in Sphere remains an optional item for part of the performance complex rather than the whole project, and the venue proceeds as a conventional large hall if it is not adopted.
Local governments are building immersive venues too. Hongseong County (홍성군) in South Chungcheong is spending 19.5 billion won (about $14.5 million) — 9 billion won from the national budget and 10.5 billion won from the county — on a K-Rock Digital Space beside Hongseong station: a three-storey building of 2,700 square meters on a 6,165-square-meter site, carrying what the county calls Korea's first domestic LED dome.
Detailed design began on March 16 and completion is targeted for 2027. The county's stated programming is K-pop digital performances, live sports, remastered films and digital wellness experiences.
Trillions of won for the buildings, 25 billion for what plays in them?
IMAX's Content Solutions revenue is what studios pay to have a film converted and distributed in the format, and decisions about what plays and when are made between IMAX and the distributor, not the exhibitor.
For a Korean broadcaster or producer, putting a concert film or documentary into premium large format runs through that route rather than through CGV's booking. When CGV's ICECON (아이스콘) re-releases two IU (아이유) concert films on Sept. 9 and Sept. 16, with "IU Concert: The Winning" in ScreenX and 4DX, the auditoriums belong to CJ CGV and the formats are licensed by CJ 4DPLEX. When a broadcaster puts its own IP on a screen like that, the counterparty is the format owner, not the cinema.
The venue investments announced in Korea are Hanam K-Star World at 4.2183 trillion won, Seoul Arena, and Hongseong's K-Rock Digital Space at 19.5 billion won. The budget for making the content that goes into them over the same period is a single line: the culture ministry's 25 billion won for live-performance viewing technology.
Sphere opened on Sept. 29, 2023 with a U2 residency and added Darren Aronofsky's in-house production Postcard from Earth a week later. Cosm signed a multi-year rights deal with ESPN in March 2024 and opened its first venue in Los Angeles that July. Both had contracted what would fill the room before the doors opened. The programming Hongseong has described — K-pop digital performances, live sports and remastered films — requires a concert-film production deal, sports media rights and film distribution rights, each bought separately. The 19.5 billion won is construction.
K-Culture Valley in Goyang stopped at 17% completion on its arena after CJ LiveCity (CJ라이브시티) put in more than 700 billion won over eight years from the June 2016 agreement. The project cost had grown from 1 trillion to about 2 trillion won when Gyeonggi Province terminated the agreement on July 1, 2024. The building was not the problem. KEPCO (한국전력) said it could not supply large-scale power before 2029, the Hallyucheon water-quality project was scheduled for after 2029, four revisions to the business plan stretched out permitting, and the province and CJ were at odds over roughly 100 billion won in liquidated damages.
The capital region already has the 15,000-seat Inspire Arena (인스파이어 아레나), open since January 2024. Seoul Arena adds 18,269 seats in the first half of 2027 and Hanam more than 20,000 in 2031, with LED domes in Hongseong and other local governments proceeding separately. They will be competing for the same shows.
In between, IMAX, Sphere and Cosm may each test entry into Korea by a different route. What those three bring is a specification and a brand; the construction cost and the operating risk stay with the client. That is exactly what the Abu Dhabi agreement set out.
What is being announced now is renderings and total project costs. Nothing has been announced as a contract for what will play, on what terms, for how many years. Without those contracts, the 4 trillion won buys buildings and the 25 billion won is a research grant to go find something to put in them.
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