oppenheimer debut weekend brought in 35 million for the theater chain across only 740 of its screens worldwide shares of imax corp rallied after hours on wednesday after the highend movietheater operator reported secondquarter results that beat estimates  helped by titles like super mario bros  with more gains likely on the way as theater operators ride blockbusters like oppenheimer through the summer the results imax imax executives said landed as more moviegoers are showing a preference for seeing movies in premium theaters following the shutdown of the industry during the pandemic and they hit after oppenheimer directed by christopher nolan brought in 35 million for the theater chain across only 740 of its screens worldwide the company  whose massive movie screens and highresolution film quality make for a rich audiovisual experience  reported secondquarter net income of 84 million or 15 cents a share contrasting with a loss of 29 million or 5 cents a share in the same quarter last year revenue jumped 32 to 98 million compared with 74 million in the prioryear quarter analysts polled by factset expected imax to report adjusted earnings per share of 16 cents on revenue of 866 million shares of the company which runs more than 1700 theaters in more than 80 countries were up 3 after hours richard gelfond imaxs chief executive said that the sales from oppenheimer over the past weekend represented a paradigm shift at hand in moviegoing the movietheater industry has suffered tremendously in recent years as a result of pandemicrelated shutdowns and a broader shift to home viewing and streaming the hollywood writers and actors strikes meanwhile have left production in flux movietheater operators are hoping that big releases like barbie and oppenheimer can revive their fortunes and sustain them going forward earlier this month imax also cited a big sales bump from mission impossible  dead reckoning part one for the second quarter which ended june 30 executives on wednesday called out super mario bros guardians of the galaxy vol 3 and spiderman across the spiderverse as movie titles that helped results this content was created by marketwatch which is operated by dow jones  co marketwatch is published independently from dow jones newswires and the wall street journal