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Only The Imax Screen Is Big Enough For Big Ghosts, Bigger Apes, Epic Falls, Civil War, And A Renegade Warrior

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Only The Imax Screen Is Big Enough For Big Ghosts, Bigger Apes, Epic Falls, Civil War, And A Renegade Warrior:

Catch all these blockbusters at Ster-Kinekor’s IMAX cinemas for an immersive cinema experience

There’s nothing that beats watching a blockbuster movie in the cinema… except if you’re watching it on the biggest screen for a fully immersive sound and picture movie experience. With nine state-of-the-art IMAX cinemas at select sites around the country, Ster-Kinekor has lined up five blockbuster titles during April and May whose heroes, villains, action characters and superstars can only truly be appreciated on the supersized IMAX screen.

First up, with some rather ghostly and ghoulish creatures taking centre stage, who you gonna call? Well, the Ghostbusters, obviously! Releasing in IMAX on 12 April, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has to call on Ghostbusters new and old to join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age, when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force.
Watch the trailer here.

Sharing the IMAX screen with the Ghostbusters from 12 April is an all-star cast of actors including Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, and Cailee Spaeny, who are on a different mission altogether. In Civil War, the heroes, a team of military-embedded journalists, find themselves in a dystopian future America, and racing against time on an adrenaline-fueled thrill ride to reach Washington, D.C., before rebel factions descend upon the White House. The film is directed by Alex Garland and has a running time of 1hr 49mins.
Watch the trailer here.

Action on a different level takes over the IMAX screens from 26 April, when Ryan Gosling takes on the adrenalin-pumping role of The Fall Guy. Colt Seavers is a stuntman who left the business a year earlier to focus on both his physical and mental health. He’s drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie, which is being directed by his ex, goes missing. Directed by David Leitch, this action-packed comedy drama also stars Emily Blunt as Colt’s ex-girlfriend, Jody Moreno, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Hannah Waddingham.
Watch the trailer here.

The biggest apes on the planet take over the IMAX screen in May, with the release of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations into the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously together, while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will lead him to question all that he has known about the past, and to make choices that will define a future for both apes and humans alike. The film releases on 10 May in Ster-Kinekor IMAX cinemas.
Watch the trailer here.

More action in May when Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and team-up with Mad Max, releases in IMAX on 24 May. Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe. As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop battle to make her way home. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Anya Taylor-Joy and Charlee Fraser, and is directed by George Miller.
Watch the trailer here.

Don’t miss the opportunity to watch these five epic movies in the best possible cinema format – the larger-than-life IMAX screen – for a truly immersive movie experience. Ster-Kinekor’s IMAX cinemas are at the following complexes: The Grove in Tshwane; Cradlestone, Eastgate and Mall of Africa in Johannesburg; Gateway in Durban; Baywest in Gqeberha; and Blue Route, CapeGate and V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

Bookings are now open. Get your tickets at www.sterkinekor.com or download the SK App on your smartphone. For news and updates, go to Facebook: Ster-Kinekor Theatres | follow Ster-Kinekor on Twitter: @Ster-Kinekor. For all queries, call Ticketline on 0861-Movies (668 437).

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Ponte City: Transformation

As the “white flight” of the 1980s and 90s drained the inner city of capital, Ponte City underwent a dramatic and terrifying transformation. By the late 1990s, the building had become a “vertical slum” and a symbol of urban decay. It was famously “hijacked” by gangs; the retail levels were stripped, and the building became a fortress for drug dealing and human trafficking. The most haunting image from this era was the central core. Originally designed to be a light-filled courtyard, it became a literal trash heap. Residents on the upper floors would throw their refuse into the center of the building rather than taking it down. At its worst point, the trash in the core reached five stories high—a mountain of rotting debris, discarded furniture, and even, legend has it, the remains of those who had fallen or jumped.

During this period, the reputation of Ponte was so toxic that there was a serious proposal in 1998 to turn the entire skyscraper into a vertical prison. The plan was eventually scrapped, but the building remained a “no-go zone” for nearly a decade. The turnaround began in the mid-2000s when developers New Metro Property Group and later Dlala Nje began a massive, painstaking refurbishment. They cleared out the tons of trash from the core, restored the lifts (which had often been out of order, forcing residents to climb 50 flights of stairs), and implemented strict security protocols.