Archive for October, 2008
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Over on the GSCA Blogs, President Gretchen Jaspering provides a travelogue of a recent trip to China to learn more of China's emerging film and theater industry. She writes:
At this meeting we learned that the United Cinema Line has 105 theaters and 332 screens. As of 2003 there are ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Ain't It Cool News has posted an interview with Iron Man director Jon Favreau. Though the director showed earlier interest in filming the Iron Man sequel in IMAX, further investigation into the process and costs showed IMAX did not fit with the film. Favreau comments:
Yeah, I loved watching ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal recently covered IMAX's digital rollout and the Giant Screen industry's unhappy reaction.
Uneasy about the size of Imax Corp.'s new digital-theater screens, some of its longtime museum clients wish the company would stick to its "think big" corporate mantra.
Imax's co-chief executive, Richard Gelfond, raised eyebrows at a ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Trailer Addict has posted the international trailer with new footage of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
IMAX's digital projection system has opened at several locations in New York, most recently at the AMC Empire 25 in New York City as well as Regal's Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn.
On a visit to the AMC Empire digital IMAX theater, The New York Post voiced similar complaints already heard throughout ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
We've added a few more images to the Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa photo gallery.
Left marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers -- Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo -- have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
The Edwards Fairfield Stadium 16 in Solano County, California will open its digital IMAX theater this Halloween. The screen will debut with Eagle Eye: The IMAX Experience. The Daily Republic reports:
The project is part of a joint venture between Regal and IMAX, which will increase Regal's total number ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Country's largest entertainment developer expands IMAX roll-out on the heels of successful opening in Kyiv
IMAX Corporation and Group of Companies "TRIUMPH," a leading media, entertainment and film production company in the Ukraine, today announced an agreement to add to the company's roll-out of IMAX® theatres in the country. Kinokompaniya Triumf, ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Up on ComingSoon.net, Warner Bros. has revealed the teaser poster to upcoming film, Watchmen.
Based on the graphic novel, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" -- which charts the USA's tension with the ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Concert film, U2 3D, received the "Best Musical Film" award at this year's Los Premios MTV Latin America Video Music Awards. Produced by 3ality Digital and distributed by National Geographic Cinema Ventures, U2 3D features a series of concerts shot in South American during the final leg of U2's ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
The LG IMAX Theatre in Sydney's Darling Harbor is turning 12, and in celebration will be showcasing the first IMAX film and one of the first IMAX 3D films.
Tiger Child, the world's first IMAX movie ever seen will be screened for the first time ever in Australia. It was ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
nWave's first 3D feature film, Fly Me to the Moon, will get a DVD release December 2, 2008. Directed by Ben Stassen, the film follows three spirited and curious pre-teen flies as they hitch a ride aboard the Apollo 11 mission.
With the voices of Kelly Ripa, Christopher Lloyd, Nicollette ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
A 20-minute 3D digital version of Giant Screen Films' Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs has been released under the title Egypt 3D: Secrets of the Mummies. The digital film will be part of National Geographic's touring exhibition "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs." To present Egypt ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
MacGillivray Freeman Films has just posted their latest episode of their "MFF: On Location" series for Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D. The video focuses on two stars of the film, anthropologist Wade Davis and his daughter Tara.
Directed by Greg MacGillivray, Grand Canyon Adventure is the first 3D ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Rumors have arisen that The Hobbit may be receiving a 3D and IMAX treatment. Director Guillermo Del Toro told MTV News:
IMAX is a fantastic medium. I am a shareholder. I love IMAX. I remember seeing ‘Polar Express,’ and then seeing ‘Polar Express’ in 3D and IMAX and having my ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
The Associated Press of Pakistan reports an IMAX theater is planned for the city of Islamabad. This would be the country's first IMAX theater which is being developed alongside a conventional cinema.
According to analysts, Islamabad may be the only capital around the world that does not has the cinema ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Co-director Steve McNicholas talks with Public Radio International on the making of his latest film, Wild Ocean 3D.
STEVE MCNICHOLAS: I was stunned. It was 2005, July, 2005, which is winter down there. And I was in a helicopter. We were scouting along the coast, so just taking photographs of the ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
A recent article from the LF Examiner explores the recent rollout of digital IMAX screens, and the accompanying comments of IMAX co-CEO, Richard Gelfond, that IMAX doesn't consider itself "giant screen." In lieu of the digital rollout, the company looks to brand itself as "immersive" rather than its decades ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Big Movie Zone talks with Paul Novros, producer to numerous classic Giant Screen films including Africa: The Serengeti, Alaska: Spirit of the Wild and Forces of Nature. His latest project, Animalopolis, is a unique film made up of good-natured comedic animal segments.
BMZ: One of my favorite sequences is the ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
The Regal El Dorado Hills Stadium 14 located in the Sacramento area is set to open its IMAX theater Friday, October 24. The digital IMAX theater will open with Eagle Eye: The IMAX Experience starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan.
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