Tickets on sale for midnight ‘Harry Potter’ IMAX showing at the Greene

BEAVERCREEK — The Dayton-area’s first commercial IMAX theater will open Nov. 19 in conjunction with the highly anticipated new “Harry Potter” movie, according to Rave Motion Pictures officials.

Tickets go on sale today, Nov. 10, for the first midnight screening of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part I” at Rave’s new IMAX theater at The Greene, said Jeremy Devine, the company’s vice president of marketing.

“If you go out late Thursday night, you can catch it a minute after midnight on Friday (Nov. 19),” he said.

Rave at the Greene will premiere its first IMAX 3-D film, “Tron Legacy,” on Dec. 17.

The IMAX screen gives “Tron” fans more options, Devine said. “They will be able to see it in 2-D, they will be able to see it in 3-D, they will be able to see it in IMAX 3-D,” he said.

The Dayton area’s first and only current IMAX screen is at the National Museum of the U.S. Force, which typically shows aviation-themed IMAX films.

Rave this month completed upgrading all 46 of its Dayton-area screens to digital projection. The process costs up to $100,000 per screen, Devine said.

Rave at the Greene now has four 3-D screens, plus the new IMAX 3-D screen. Rave Huber Heights and Dayton South each have three 3-D screens.

Rave theaters now can show multiple 3-D movies simultaneously, “which was essential because there is just simply more than one 3-D film out in the marketplace more often than not now,” Devine said.

Tickets for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part I" in IMAX are available at the Rave at the Greene box office and online at www.movietickets.com.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2419 or dlarsen@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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