Archive for September, 2009
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Audyssey Laboratories and IMAX Corporation today announced a partnership to use MultEQ, the ground-breaking acoustical correction technology developed by Audyssey, to calibrate and tune IMAX theater sound systems beginning in 2010. Audyssey MultEQ is the world's leading technology used for optimizing time and frequency response in sound systems.
"Sound has always ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
The UK's @Bristol IMAX 3D Cinema is relaunching with Dolphins and Whales: Tribes of the Ocean. This Is Bristol reports:
A spectacular marine wildlife film that took more than three years to make will be shown at the relaunch of the IMAX 3D cinema at the new Blue Reef Aquarium ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
The Los Angeles Times' Patrick Goldstein talks with IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond on the IMAX digital screen size controversy:
Alas, people rarely listen to newspaper loudmouths like me. For example, last May, when a wave of protest hit after comedian Aziz Ansari started a one-man blogosphere assault against Imax, outraged that ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Forbes interviews IMAX's head of filmed entertainment, Greg Foster, on IMAX's approach to the 3D boom:
Forbes: How important are 3-D movies to Imax?
Foster: In the last 12 months about 20% of our films were in 3-D. In the next 12 months it's going to be 50%. The studios have been ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) announced today that Richard L. Gelfond, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Consumer Conference 2009 on Thursday, October 1st at 3:15pm Eastern Time. The conference is taking place at the New York Palace Hotel.
The presentation is being webcast live and can be ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Charleston City Paper writes:
Some two years ago, the IMAX theater at the Aquarium Wharf shut its doors. It was a bad time for IMAX fans in the Holy City — especially those folks in Charleston who wanted to see last year's blockbuster hit The Dark Knight, which was shot ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Globe and Mail takes a look at investing in disruptive technologies at the right time and how this relates to IMAX tech:
Investing in today’s disruptive technologies is no easy matter, largely because they tend not to sport neon signs. However, Jim Oberweis, an asset manager writing in Forbes ... ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Via National Geographic:
Later this week, “Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure” will surpass the $40 million mark at the box office. Since its release on October 2007, it has become one of the fastest giant screen films to ever reach this mark, and makes it one of the highest grossing giant ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Gadget blog Pocket Lint gives a quick run down of what IMAX is and its many manifestations:
How are the IMAX cinemas different?
The screens are normally much bigger than those of traditional movie theatres. The standard size is 22 x 16.1m for a total of 354m squared but the largest in ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond has released a statement on the company's study of classic 15/70 IMAX theaters and the retrofitted multiplex digital IMAX screens. You can read the full report here:
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The Huffington Post takes a closer look at IMAX's recent study:
I had a chance to speak with Gelfond ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Highlights Include:
17 of the top 20 locations included IMAX(R) theatres
Film marks biggest September opening for IMAX
Sony Pictures Animation family film opens #1 with $30.4 million
IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) today announced that Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs opened with strong box office results, generating approximately $2.4 million ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
The Chattanoogan reports:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will open on the six-story screen at the Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 3D Theater Friday. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been digitally re-mastered to produce a 3D opening sequence for approximately 12 minutes.
This film will run through the end of October, ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
The Molecularium Project is going to be in your face like never before.
A new 3-D IMAX version of the project’s latest movie, Molecules to the MAX, will premiere on Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Indianapolis at the Giant Screen Cinema Association’s 2009 International Conference and Trade Show. With sharp visuals, ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs took the top spot in this weekend's box office, thanks in part to 3D and IMAX screenings. The Guardian reports:
This is the kind of weekend cinema owners love. Terrified by the inexorable rise of VOD and the devastating distraction of video gaming, they ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
WCTV takes a look at how the opening of the AMC Tallahassee Mall IMAX will affect business in the local area, and what it means for the nearby IMAX theater at Challenger Learning Center:
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Sony Pictures Animation and IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) today announced that Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: An IMAX 3D Experience will open in 127 IMAX® theatres domestically and 11 IMAX theatres internationally starting today. While the film is being released in 3,119 locations, the majority of which are 3-D, ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
The Blu-ray and DVD versions of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are due to hit stores December 8, 2009. ComingSoon.net reports:
Warner Home Video has announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will hit Blu-ray and DVD on December 8th. While the full specs haven't been announced (we'll ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
New IMAX® theatre opens at AMC Tallahassee Mall 20 on September 18
AMC Entertainment Inc. (AMC), a leading theatrical exhibition and entertainment company, announces today that guests visiting AMC Tallahassee Mall 20 can now enjoy The IMAX Experience® from IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ: IMAX; TSX: IMX).
The IMAX Experience combines crystal-clear images, powerful ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
The Wall Street Journal writes:
Shares of Imax Corp. (IMAX) are down sharply Friday after an analyst downgraded the stock on concerns about competition from an exhibitor's nascent large-screen theater format.
Although Cinemark Holdings Inc. (CNK) only has two of its Extreme Digital Cinema, or "XD" theaters in operation, Merriman Curhan Ford ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
The latest reviews for the IMAX version of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs are slowly cropping up. See what the critics are saying about the film. We'll continue to add to this post as more reviews get posted.
Houston Chronicle: "It takes an iron stomach to watch this ...
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