Behind the ‘Jesus Is King’ Film That Brought Together Kanye West and Imax

Megan Colligan, president of Imax Entertainment, had no idea what to expect when she took her sons to Calabasas this summer at the behest of Kanye West and his manager for one of the rapper’s vaunted and, until recently, very exclusive Sunday services. She had been told by a friend who had been that it was beautiful — a spectacle that she should consider for Imax. Kanye felt the same way. “We were reached out to at the end of May. I got the phone call from Damien, who is Kanye’s manager. And he was really interested in figuring out a way to bring Sunday service to people everywhere, and had been thinking about kind of how to scale it,” Colligan told TheWrap. “So I went on Sunday, and I took my whole family because I was like, ‘I don’t know what this is gonna be.’ It was so lovely and so nice.” Also Read: 'Jesus Is King' Film Review: Kanye West Documentary-Promo Is Both Too Short and Too Long Kanye West’s “Jesus is King” — part concert film, part art instillation, part documentary short– premiered Oct. 25 on 440 Imax screens around the world, coinciding with the release of...

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