Archive for December, 2010
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
2005's Mystery of the Nile is set to play Kolkata, India's Science City. The Times of India reports:
Mystery of the Nile', a two-time Acadamy Award-nominated giant screen film that captures the magnificence of the mighty river, is all set to enthrall audiences and draw record viewers as it is ...
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Collider has posted their exclusive interview with Executive Vice-President of IMAX, David Keighley, who talks about The Dark Knight Rises release in IMAX.
Keighley confirms a number of facts about the IMAX release of the next Batman film:
Confirms The Dark Knight Rises will also be in IMAX. Says ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
A new poster and three images from The Green Hornet have been released.
Directed by Michel Gondry, Seth Rogen stars as The Green Hornet and Jay Chou as Kato in this reboot of the classic 1930′s characters best known from the 1960′s TV series.
The film comes to IMAX 3D theaters January ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
Principal Large Format CEO Phil Streather
Principal Large Format (PLF) is delighted to announce that it will lead a three-day training course on 3D for cinema and television next January in London. Titled ‘Advanced 3D – The National Stereoscopic 3D Training Programme’, the course is being presented by PLF in association ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
TRON: Legacy's IMAX Domestic Box Office Performance is Off the Grid; Generates $10.45 Million of the Film's $44 Million Over Three Day Weekend
LOS ANGELES, Dec 20, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) announced today the strong performance of the IMAX release ...
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
Hollywood.com reports on Tron: Legacy's big box office opening:
Getting off to a great start in its midnight debut, Disney's Tron: Legacy grossed over $1 million in IMAX which represents more than one-quarter of the $3.6 million in midnight business (this percentage is a record for IMAX). This exceeds their ...
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
KWCH 12 Eyewitness News reports:
The big screen just got bigger. You can now watch movies on IMAX in Wichita. The new theatre at 21st and Tyler is one of the largest in the world. It's six stories tall, 90 feet wide and has more than 600 seats. ...
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Creative Loafing Atlanta reports:
If you're frantically looking for available tickets to see Tron Legacy in IMAX at midnight, you don't have to go to the burbs. Regal Atlantic Station 16 is debuting their spanking new digital IMAX theater tonight with Tron Legacy: The IMAX 3D Experience.
Crews have been working around ...
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Daily Echo reports on the never-ending dilemma of the closed Bournemouth IMAX theater:
BOURNEMOUTH’S controversial Imax building could be chopped by 20 feet as early as spring 2011.
Councillors yesterday backed a seafront regeneration scheme to “substantially demolish” the hated Waterfront landmark, which the authority took over for £7.5million earlier this year.
A ...
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
9 exciting weeks, 7 action-packed films, 1 really big screen ...
Beginning Tuesday, January 4, 2011 the ever-daring Maryland Science Center will thrill audiences with its most extreme IMAX Film Festival ever. From skiers on the tallest slopes to scientists in the deepest ocean depths ... from the pinnacles ...
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
You may have noticed many new IMAX theaters crop up in your local multiplexes. While these new IMAX theaters show mostly Hollywood films, the traditional IMAX documentary continues to thrive in IMAX museum theaters. The IMAX screens found in these museum theaters are the biggest screens around. ...
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
3D Entertainment's Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World is set to open at the Connecticut Science Museum's 3D theater on December 18. The Danbury News Times writes:
Long before dinosaurs roamed the surface of the Earth, they ruled deep beneath the oceans.
Opening Saturday, Dec. 18, at the Connecticut Science Center ...
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
The Boston Globe reports:
Rattle Advertising said it has been hired by the Giant Screen Cinema Association to help prepare a variety of marketing material and a social media campaign to inform its membership about the new “certification” for giant screen cinemas.
The Giant Screen Cinema Association represents more than 250 organizations ...
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Check out the latest reviews for the IMAX 3D version of Tron: Legacy. We'll continue to add to this post as more reviews get posted.
Starpulse.com: "By about the halfway point, The Daft Punk heavy electronica score gets you, the visuals get you, and you're dialed in, you care about ...
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
2000's Michael Jordan to the Max is getting a release to Blu-ray in March 2011. High-Def Digest reports:
An IMAX documentary on the legendary basketball player is planned for Blu-ray release this March.
In an early announcement to retailers, Lionsgate has revealed 'Michael Jordan to the Max' will be coming to ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
The first trailer for Fast Five has been released as well as some new images.
In the film, former cop Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) partners with ex-con Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) on the opposite side of the law. Dwayne Johnson joins returning favorites Jordana Brewster, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Tyrese Gibson, Sung ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Connecticut's Darien News reports:
More area schools will be able to incorporate an educational IMAX® movie at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk into their lessons, thanks to a $10,000 gift from the Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation.
The new Hoffman IMAX Scholarship Fund enables the aquarium to provide eligible schools ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Paris (France), Hollywood (California) - December 14, 2010 - Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH; NYSE: TCH) today announced that it has provided compression, authoring and 3D subtitling services for Warner Home Video's Blu-ray™ 3D titles, including Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Clash of the Titans, The Polar Express, ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Here's the trailer to 3D underwater thriller Sanctum as well as the first production stills from the film.
IMAX Corporation announced today the film will have a limited 2-week run in IMAX 3D digital theaters beginning February 4, 2011.
From executive producer James Cameron, Sanctum follows a team of underwater cave divers ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
LOS ANGELES, Dec 14, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) announced today that Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, will be released for a special two-week run in IMAX® 3D digital locations beginning February 4, 2011. This release occurs simultaneously with the action-thriller's wide release in domestic ...
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