Netflix’s first IMAX release now has a venue count: 523 screens across roughly 55 countries and territories, according to the film’s official map as of November 2. Three weeks before The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth opens on November 25, the rollout is more US-heavy and more selective than the word ‘global’ suggests.
AMC carries the run
AMC is the backbone, with 187 of the 523 locations. All but one of those are American; AMC’s lone international ticket is in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Odeon Cinemas Group, which AMC owns, adds 32 venues across ODEON, UCI and Finnkino, including 19 of the UK’s 24.
The US still has a scattering beyond AMC: 33 other locations include Megaplex, Reading Cinemas, Galaxy Theatres, Netflix’s Paris Theatre in New York and the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Who isn’t playing it
Regal and Cinemark, two of America’s three largest circuits, have opted out. By IndieWire’s count, that removes about 100 Regal IMAX screens and closer to 20 Cinemark screens from the run.
Regal’s explanation is blunt. “Shortened theatrical windows have a direct impact on those decisions,” Brooks LeBoeuf, Regal’s Senior Vice President of US Content, told TheWrap. The film reaches Netflix on December 23, four weeks after its IMAX bow.
The likely beneficiary is The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which will be in its second weekend over the Thanksgiving frame.
A lopsided global map
- The US leads with 219 venues; Japan is a clear second with 63, nearly triple the UK’s 24.
- Indonesia and Malaysia rank above several larger European markets, including Germany.
- Ecuador outranks Germany and Italy in pin count, while Mexico and Brazil list just two each.
- California leads US states with 38, ahead of Florida’s 19, Texas’s 18 and Illinois’s 15.
For a campaign sold as global, the gaps are the real data point. The map currently shows no venues in Australia, France, India, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Thailand or Vietnam, among others. Some of those—Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam and Colombia—do appear in the site’s location settings, so pins could still be added. France, India and South Korea do not appear there at all.
What the window tells us
Netflix is treating this as a prestige theatrical event, not a mass theatrical release. The film gets an exclusive two-week IMAX run before streaming, and Netflix will report box office as it has for La Bola Negra and The Mosquito Bowl. But by letting chains opt out, IMAX has exposed how much the economics depend on a longer exclusive window.
For media planners and film-business teams, the map is a practical warning: a ‘global IMAX event’ can still have zero inventory in India, France, Australia and South Korea. Campaigns built around theatrical razzle-dazzle should confirm screen coverage market by market before committing budgets.
As of November 2, only four venues are selling tickets: the TCL Chinese Theatre, the New Beverly, the Vista and AMC Schererville 16 in Indiana. A final trailer is expected soon; one source says it runs over three minutes.
Source: What’s on Netflix
