Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The Q80 Mix blog reviews the BFI London IMAX theater:
Before I flew back to Kuwait I decided to catch the new Transformers movie and when I found out that they were showing it at the BFI IMAX in London , I thought what better movie to watch on the IMAX ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
From the Sacramento Bee:
Esquire IMAX Theatre in downtown Sacramento is marking its 10th anniversary on July 11.
The theater will show the 45-minute film "[Adventures in] Wild California" for free every hour on the hour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is a pictorial tour of the state and appropriate ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The Jakarta Post reviews SK Films' Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta, a Giant Screen film that follows the great traveller Ibn Battuta on his first epic journey to Mecca.
We tend to come across most interesting gems in Jakarta by stumbling over them, often because of a ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Three IMAX theaters will debut Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 15, the film's opening day for conventional theaters. FirstShowing.net reports:
Earlier this month it was discovered that the IMAX debut of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, with roughly 12 minutes of 3D footage, was going to ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Studio Daily takes a look at the work of Industrial Light and Magic on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in IMAX:
There’s a sequence in DreamWorks/Paramounts’ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in which the Devastator, a gigantic Decepticon robot, scales an Egyptian pyramid as easily as a gorilla climbing a tree ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The Milford Daily News offers their review of Giant Screen film, Amazon, now playing at Mugar Omni theater at the Museum of Science in Boston.
"[I]n the Amazon," observes actress and narrator Linda Hunt, "reality is more amazing than mythology."
In just 40 minutes, this gorgeous informative IMAX film, "Amazon," proves that ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Here's a round-up of the latest articles on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen's big weekend box office where it took in $200 million in domestic tickets sales since Wednesday. IMAX screens contributed with more than 7% of the total box office.
Associated Press: 'Transformers' takes to sky with $112M weekend
The ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
From Associated Press:
An analyst at Merriman Curhan Ford upgraded shares of Regal Entertainment Group and raised estimates for Imax Corp. and Carmike Cinemas Inc. Monday after the Paramount Pictures film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" took the top spot at the box office during its opening weekend.
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[Eric] Wold ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
IMAX® Theatres Generate $18.3 Million of Film's Worldwide Total Highlights Include:
- Domestic per screen average of $85,000 for the first five days
- 18 of the top 20 domestic locations housed an IMAX® theatre
- Biggest single-day domestic gross of $3.9 million
- Biggest five-day domestic gross of $14.4 million
- Biggest ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Via Giant Screen Cinema Association:
The Swiss Museum of Transport, Switzerland's most popular museum, currently attracts more than 820,000 visitors a year and is celebrating its 50th anniversary. With the "VHS 2009" investment project covering approximately 50 million Swiss francs, the management of the Swiss Museum of Transport launched and completed ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
The Hindu reports on India's theaters that will be able to show Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in IMAX 3D:
The 3D version of 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' which is premiering at a multiplex here on July 15 promises to give audiences such a close experience.
But only ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
The Atlantic Business Channel analyzes IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond's recent appearance on Fox Business:
Domestic growth in IMAX theaters is staggering. Over the past several years, Gelfond says that his company averaged around 20 new IMAX system installations per year. Now, it is opening two to three new theaters per week.
Yet, ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ:IMAX; TSX:IMX) announced today that it closed the sale of an additional 1,470,000 of its common shares at the public offering price of $7.15 per share pursuant to the over-allotment option exercised in full by the underwriter of its recently completed public offering. The exercise of the over-allotment ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
havoctv has up preview videos for upcoming Giant Screen film, Ultimate Wave Tahiti:
Featuring nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, Ultimate Wave Tahiti will immerse audiences in the story of an ocean wave and the lives it impacts and transforms. The film will be released in February, 2010.
Check out the dedicated ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
ComingSoon.net has posted an interview with director Zack Snyder on the Blu-ray edition of Watchmen:
CS/SHH!: Were you aware, the whole production, that the Blu-ray would end up this involved?
Zack Snyder: We knew. We were constantly having meeting and planning, "Oh, this is going to be on the Blu-ray. Because when ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Head of IMAX at the Swiss Transport Museum and EUROMAX President, Christian Scheidegger, discusses this past June's Euromax conference in his latest blog entry:
On June 14-15, EUROMAX held its summer meeting at the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen, Denmark. Although there was not a lot of new product to screen, ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Still feeling the effects of comedian Aziz Ansari's rant against the smaller digital IMAX screens, KVBC asks, "Are all IMAX movie theaters created equal?"
"The screen should reach from the ceiling to the floor," says Brian Wenzloff. "Like, right when you walk in, your jaw should drop to the floor."
That's what ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
The Mesquite News covers the AMC Mesquite 30 IMAX theater in Texas and its summer schedule:
School is out, temperatures are up, and Mesquite has a new theater to cool off in and watch blockbuster movies larger than life this summer.
An IMAX theater opened at AMC Mesquite 30 on March 6 ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Stock analysts Inside Futures pick IMAX as a stock to watch in the near term:
The point about Imax (IMAX) is that they really benefit from the blockbuster releases that get the fans excited. The reason being, if the movie franchise’s fan base is pumped about an upcoming release, ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
The summer meeting of EUROMAX on June 14-15, 2009 was hosted by the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Tycho Brahe Planetarium is situated in Copenhagen's city centre and is Denmark's most advanced centre for popularizing astronomy and space research and promoting knowledge of natural science. Beyond the presentation ...
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