Netflix and IMAX Are in Talks for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein movie is set to arrive on Netflix later this year, but the film just got a freakishly exciting update. Today at the Cannes Film Festival, Collider’s Steve Weintraub was in attendance at a roundtable event with Richard Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. Gelfond spoke about IMAX plans for several upcoming movies, and he was asked if there were any plans for Frankenstein to be released in the custom format. Netflix has released movies like Glass Onion in limited theaters in the past for a week or two before the film begins streaming, so it wouldn’t be unheard of for Frankenstein to hit the big screen before its Netflix debut. While Gelfond made sure to mention that nothing is set in stone, he did confirm that an IMAX release for Frankenstein is “under discussion”: