Nolan and drawn by Sean Gordon Murphy. The comic is a prequel to the film, with Mann as the protagonist. Release Theatrical Before Interstellars public release, Paramount CEO Brad Grey hosted a private screening on , 2014, at an IMAX theater in Lincoln Square, Manhattan. Paramount then showed Interstellar to some of the industry's filmmakers and actors in a first-look screening at the California Science Center on . On the following day, the film was screened at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California for over of the Screen Actors Guild. The film premiered on at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, and in Europe on at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. The film premiered on November 7 in Canada. Interstellar was released early on November 4 in various IMAX film, 70 mm film and film theaters, and had a limited release in North America (United States and Canada) on , with a wide release on . The film was released in Belgium, France, and Switzerland on , the United Kingdom on and in additional territories in the following days. For the limited North American release, Interstellar was projected from 70 mm and 35 mm film in that still supported those formats, including at least theaters. A IMAX projector was installed at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles to display the format. The film's wide release expanded to theaters that showed it digitally. Paramount Pictures distributed the film in North America, and Warner Bros. distributed it in the remaining territories. The film was released in over 770 IMAX screens worldwide, which was the largest global release in IMAX cinemas, until surpassed by Universal Pictures' Furious 7 (2015) with 810 IMAX theaters. Interstellar was an exception to Paramount Pictures' goal to stop releasing films on film stock and to distribute them only in digital format. According to Pamela McClintock of The Hollywood Reporter, the initiative to project Interstellar on film stock would help preserve an endangered format, which was supported by Christopher Nolan, J. J. Abrams, Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Paul Thomas Anderson, and other filmmakers. McClintock reported that theatre owners saw this as "backward," as nearly all theatres in the US had been converted to digital projection. Home media Interstellar was released on home video on March 31, 2015, in both the United Kingdom and United States. It topped the home video sales chart for a