The A24 x IMAX Present screening series is kicking off 2025 with a stellar lineup.
IndieWire can announce that Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning “Moonlight” and Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers” will both be in IMAX for the first time ever, courtesy of the studio.
“Moonlight” will screen for one night only on February 27 as part of the A24 x IMAX monthly screening series. Tickets are now available here. “Spring Breakers” will screen March 19, with tickets on sale February 21. Both films will screen across IMAX locations nationwide, and at select locations internationally.
“Moonlight,” which IndieWire awarded the title of best film of the 2010s, won Best Picture in 2017. Auteur Barry Jenkins adapted Tarell Alvin McCarney’s play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” for the screen; the story follows a queer boy as he comes of age in Miami.
“Spring Breakers” centered on a group of college freshmen who venture to St. Petersburg, Florida to party…only to then become entwined with local crime. The 2013 film became a cult classic.
The A24 x IMAX Present screening series began in March 2024 with the re-release of Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina.” Additional A24 films that were available in the IMAX Experience included the director’s cut of “Midsommar,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “Hereditary,” “The Lighthouse,” “The Witch,” “The Green Knight,” “Talk to Me,” and “Uncut Gems.”
IMAX has been digitally remastering classics from A24’s library of more than 140 feature films.
Outside of the indie A24 studio, IMAX has two big gets with both Warner Bros.’ upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson feature and Greta Gerwig’s “The Chronicles of Narnia” adaptation for Netflix.
Anderson’s Warner Bros. feature is starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Alana Haim, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor, and will open in IMAX theaters on August 8, 2025. Warner Bros. has deemed Anderson’s feature an “event film” that warrants the IMAX screen.
Gerwig’s “The Chronicles of Narnia” will debut on at least 1,000 IMAX screens worldwide in November 2026, one month before the film’s streaming premiere on Christmas Day 2026. IndieWire reported that Gerwig personally reached out to IMAX executives to bring “Narnia” to the event-focused big screen. The writer/director then facilitated the Netflix co-release.
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