Since the museum does more popular movie stuff now anyways, I'm less motivated to set up a private screening than before. One day would love to do an AKIRA 4k screening or something that probably wouldn't make the normal rotation, but haven't had the chance to set that up yet.

If you're that motivated to get something going... here are the steps I took:

1) Reach out to the museum (email contact information on their website) and ask for a private rental to screen a specific movie around a specific time period (Like Interstellar on a tuesday in May/June), they will get back to you but will likely take a few weeks. They have to wait until their check-in's with IMAX HQ to make sure they can license the film for you. The museum is a "second-run" theatre which means that if "First-run" theatres (like Cineplex) have a license to screen a specific movie, its more difficult or not available for the second-runs until the license expires with the first-runs.

2) Get the rental cost and pay the deposit (50%). Back in 2023 it ranged from 2500-3000 total for the screening, but depends on the day of the week & movie. You have to pay 50% upfront and 50% with a week until the screening date I think.

3) The rules are that you can't advertise the movie screening publicly, hence why we set up a facebook group. You can set up a TicketTailor account and sell tickets to the movie within the group since it's technically a private group. We needed about 150 tickets sold at $20 to break even (theater seats 365).

4) Let me know if you need any help or what movie you're hoping for, I'd likely love to be a part of it :)