FandangoNOW To Offer IMAX Enhanced Films Like ‘Venom’ In The U.S.

FandangoNOW announced it will become the first U.S. digital retailer for IMAX Enhanced films releasing to home video, including Venom.

Fandango’s video-on-demand streaming service, FandangoNow, will have the exclusive rights as the only transactional VOD service to bring IMAX enhanced films to home entertainment systems in the U.S. through 2019. Cameron Douglas, Head of FandangoNOW, made the following statement on the partnership between FandangoNow and IMAX:

“FandangoNOW prides itself in offering consumers the highest quality image and widest catalogue of premium format movies to enjoy on demand. We are thrilled to be collaborating with IMAX and DTS to serve as the exclusive digital retailer in the U.S. for IMAX Enhanced content releasing later this year, helping consumers access premium 4K HDR content as the filmmaker intended in the home.”

Geir Skaaden, EVP, Chief Products and Services Officer at Xperi Corporation, parent company of DTS, made the following statement:

“For decades, Fandango has helped millions of movie fans enjoy IMAX movies on giant screens by creating innovative movie discovery and ticketing services using next generation online, mobile and voice technologies. Now, with the company’s video on-demand service FandangoNOW and its support of IMAX Enhanced films, Fandango can help deliver to fans a level of quality never before experienced at home.”

Fandango plans to offer IMAX Enhanced films, including IMAX documentaries and big studio titles such as Venom, at launch later this year.  The IMAX Enhanced program was created by IMAX and DTS out of their combined expertise in image and sound technology development to allow consumers to choose content for home viewing that offers the highest quality 4K HDR images and sound.

FandangoNOW is currently available on more than 200 million connected devices, experienced double-digit sales growth in 2018, and was inducted into Variety’s Home Entertainment Hall of Fame for its innovation and expansive library of more than 80,000 new release and catalog movies, next-day TV shows and growing library of 4K titles.

Directed by Ruben Fleischer from a script written by Jeff Pinkner & Scott Rosenberg and Kelly Marcel, Venom stars Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, Reid Scott, Jenny Slate, Ron Cephas Jones, and Woody Harrelson.

VENOM tells the evolution story of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass character Venom! Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is a broken man after he loses everything including his job and fiancee. Just when his life is at its lowest, he becomes host to an alien symbiote which results in extraordinary superpowers – transforming him into Venom. Will these powers be enough for this new lethal protector to defeat great evil forces, especially against the far stronger and more weaponized symbiote rival, Riot?

Venom will be available on Digital HD on December 11 and will be released on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD on December 18.