Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
MacGillivray Freeman Films and its Educational Foundation donated $26,500 to Ryan's Well Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to building wells and sanitation facilities in developing countries. The donation was matched by Ryan's Well Foundation through student fundraising efforts, doubling the donation's impact.
The now $50,000-plus program will build five wells ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
SM Mall of Asia's IMAX theater located in Pasay City, Philippines will hold its premiere of MacGillivray Freeman Films' The Alps Friday afternoon at 5:30PM.
The film follows the true life story of mountaineer and journalist John Harlin III, who sets out on an epic personal journey to climb the deadly ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In support of Mysteries of the Great Lakes' run at the Detroit Science Center, the Detroit Free Press profiles locals Kathy Johnson and Greg Lashbrook who helped with the making of the film.
The residents of Lakeport, near Port Huron, know this leg of the lakes well, having worked there on ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Sacramento News & Review examines the Esquire IMAX Theater, and the lost opportunity of not running The Dark Knight during the film's opening week.
[I]f you wanted to experience Batman on the really big screen, you had to go to the Bay Area or to Fresno. The made-for-IMAX film wasn’t playing ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A demonstration of video game play on Norwalk's Maritime Aquarium IMAX screen was held last night in hopes it will become a Saturday night tradition, "VidGames: Colossal."
The first game to be played on the giant screen was the video game version of Kung Fu Panda, coinciding with the film's run ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
A new teaser to the upcoming film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has been released:
Directed by David Yates, the film will be digitally remastered into IMAX with select scenes in 3D. It is scheduled for release on November 21, 2008.
UPDATE: We've also posted few more images from the ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Avid showcases the editing technology behind The Dark Knight which used (surprise!) an Avid digital editing setup to edit both 35mm and IMAX film prints:
Because the IMAX negatives came in as a big square image, [editor Lee] Smith had to extract a portion of those shots to include in the ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
DreamWorks has released a new poster for the IMAX version of Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa:
The film features the return of all the lovable characters: Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins. Left marooned on the distant shores ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Creative Loafing interviews filmmaker D.J. Roller and his work with IMAX 3D photography. Roller most recently served as director of photography for the documentary, Wild Ocean 3D, and worked the on films, U2 3D and Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.
Is it challenging to find new subjects or ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
As part of the 100-theater deal with AMC Entertainment Inc., the AMC Loews Boston Common 19 in Boston, MA will be receiving an IMAX screen come September. The screen will be equipped with IMAX's digital theater system and will primarily show Hollywood studio films.
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
As part of the 31-theater deal with IMAX Corporation, Regal Entertainment Group is developing an IMAX screen at the Hollywood Stadium 20 in Greenville, South Carolina.
An existing screen at the multiplex will be converted into an IMAX screen, and is scheduled to open this fall in time for the release ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Pegasus News reports:
Since last September, the domed IMAX® screen of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s 25-year-old Omni Theater has been dark as crews made major renovations to the theater and constructed a link between the theater and the main portion of the new facility. In August, the ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
We've added a few more images to our photo gallery for the upcoming animated 3D film, Fly Me to the Moon.
Photo courtesy nWave Pictures
The film follows three spirited and curious pre-teen flies who live across from Cape Canaveral in 1969 and dream of going into space. Directed by Ben ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience continued its unprecedented box office performance with the highest grossing second weekend in IMAX history. The IMAX release grossed $4.6 million on 94 domestic IMAX screens, from Friday July 25 through Sunday July 27, bringing the ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
The Dark Knight breaks more records with its opening at the BFI IMAX in London. Variety reports:
Box office sensation “The Dark Knight” opened whammo at London’s BFI Imax, banking $220,000 in its first four days. Opening weekend result was bigger than any other Imax site worldwide.
First 20 shows of “Dark ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Financial Post examines IMAX's current financial standing after the success of The Dark Knight:
Battered after years of litigation and questions over accounting practices, Imax has found itself in the limelight following the windfall from The Dark Knight and word that its new digital camera technology would be adopted in several ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
The Associated Press reports:
"The Dark Knight" continues to obliterate box office records, crossing the $300 million mark in just 10 days.
The epic Batman saga grossed $75.6 million in its second weekend in theaters, pushing its domestic total to $314,245,000, Warner Bros. head of distribution Dan Fellman said Sunday.
That surpasses the ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Executive producer and distributor K2 Communications announced today the anticipated release date for the newest and most technically advanced aviation film ever produced for IMAX® theaters. According to K2 Communications, Chief Executive Officer, Bob Kresser, the premiere of Legends of the Sky has been slated for March 2009 at ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
According to Smithsonian V.P. of IMAX® Theater Operations, Toby Mensforth, the dynamic Giant Screen film Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag has pushed the ticket sales envelope to new record heights.
"Sometime in June we sold the one-millionth Fighter Pilot ticket -- proving the market for IMAX® Theater flight films and America's love affair ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
MediaMerge has added the Milwaukee Public Museum's Humphrey IMAX® Dome Theater to its client roster for its Service Partnership Program (SPP). Humphrey is the 15th theater to partake in MediaMerge's service offering; MediaMerge is currently the largest third-party IMAX servicing agent in the world.
"Cost savings was the biggest factor," ...
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