Archive for February, 2011
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Blog Atlanta Moms recommends seeing Giant Screen film Animalopolis at Fernbank Museum's IMAX before it's gone:
The kids and I saw Animalopolis a couple of months ago and enjoyed the singing lions, waltzing bears, and sea lions that turned somersaults. Both of the kids cracked up at times and then ...
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
San Jose Mercury News reports:
A movie experience with an emphasis on experience will open this spring at the Streets of Brentwood. A new IMAX screen coming to the Rave Motion Pictures complex here will be the first of its kind in Contra Costa County.
In the coming weeks, the movie complex ...
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (February 25, 2011) -- The Kallisti Media crew of Cosmic Journey: Through Hubble and Cassini reports an amazingly successful shoot that captured the opening sequence of the film -- Space Shuttle Discovery's final lift off.
The breathtaking 3D footage was shot in real-time digital high speed at 500fps ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
We've posted a TV spot for the special television version of upcoming Giant Screen film Flying Monsters 3D.
Narrated by David Attenborough, the film will immerse audiences in a prehistoric world inhabited by pterosaurs, flying vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet that lived alongside dinosaurs.
Flying Monsters 3D is ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Check out the second trailer for upcoming animated film Mars Needs Moms.
Based on the 2007 children’s book by Berkeley Breathed (best known for his long-running comic strip “Bloom County”), the story features a young boy who must come to his mother’s rescue when she’s kidnapped by martians.
The film opens in ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Tornado Alley is set to open at San Diego's Reuben H. Fleet Science Center Dome. The San Diego Union-Tribune writes:
Look out Dorothy.
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center's upcoming IMAX film is about tornadoes. It's called, "Tornado Alley," and it promises to educate and thrill.
In it, you follow storm chaser ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
The Hollywood Reporter writes about IMAX's planned expansion in Asia market:
Imax is looking at releasing local films in Japan and South Korea after the successful release in China of Aftershock, the Chinese-language film.
“Japan has nine theatres and five in backlog, so we’re starting to look around for ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
IMAX Corporation has posted their fourth quarter and full year 2010 financial results boasting their highest annual revenue and earnings in their 43-year history. Check out the latest articles and analysis on IMAX's financial standing:
The Associated Press: Imax posts higher 4Q earnings, revenue
Zacks Investment Research: IMAX HAS THE BEST ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
IMAX Corporation recently announced their 2011 film slate which includes Kung Fu Panda 2. Check out the trailer, first TV spot and some images from the film.
In Kung Fu Panda 2, Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
HIGHLIGHTS
Company Reports Highest Annual Revenues, Earnings and EBITDA for Any Year in its 43-Year History
Annual Revenues Increased 45% to $248.6 million; 2010 Adjusted EBITDA Increased 73% to $101.4 million
Annual Gross Box Office from DMR titles doubled to $546 million in 2010
Fourth Quarter Revenues Increased 28% to ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Disney/Pixar has introduced two more characters from Cars 2 and has released a new image from the film.
When star racecar Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) and the incomparable tow truck Mater (voice of Larry the Cable Guy) head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix, Mater gets ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
From the Giant Screen Cinema Association:
February 18, 2011--The Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) today announced the results of the 2011 board of directors election. Eleven new directors will begin serving their two-year terms at the upcoming GSCA Film Expo being held in Los Angeles, CA, on March 8-9. The new ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Tron: Legacy is currently playing at Norwalk's Maritime Aquarium IMAX. The Danbury News Times writes:
Transport to an astonishing digital world -- projected on a six-story screen -- with "Tron: Legacy," which has just opened at the IMAX Theater of the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk.
. . .
"Tron' is a visually ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
NEW YORK, Feb 22, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) today announced that Richard L. Gelfond, Chief Executive Officer of IMAX Corporation, will present at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 3:20pm PT. The conference is being held at ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
Giant Screen Films' Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs comes to Blu-ray 3D in March. High-Def Digest reports:
Unwrap the ancient mysteries of Egypt in the third dimension next month.
In an early announcement to retailers, Image Entertainment has revealed 'IMAX: Mummies - Secrets Of The Pharaohs - 3D' narrated by Christopher ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
Texas' San Antonio Business Journal reports on the digital 3D switch for Santikos Palladium 19 IMAX:
Locally based Santikos Theatres is saying good bye to the IMAX technology at its Palladium IMAX theater — the old one, that is.
Thus begins the era of a new state-of-the art digital IMAX system for ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Washington State Leadership & Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) assists school districts with research-based science programs
SEATTLE, Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) on Wednesday made a surprise donation of $26,000 to Washington State Leadership & Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER). Boeing's donation comes from proceeds from ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
MacGillivray Freeman's Arabia 3D opens at the National Museum of Natural History IMAX this Friday. Smithsonian Institution blog Around the Mall writes:
Tomorrow, a new IMAX film, “Arabia 3D,” debuts at the National Museum of Natural History’s Johnson IMAX Theater.
. . .
Last week at a sneak preview of the film, ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
The UK's Bournemouth Echo reports:
BOURNEMOUTH’S controversial Waterfront Imax building could be cut down to size and re-opened by Easter 2012.
The borough council hopes demolition work on the Waterfront complex will start this spring and a re-developed building could open 12 months later.
It is set to short-cut the usual competitive tendering ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
IMAX's Hubble 3D will open at Bradford, UK's National Media Museum IMAX Theatre February 19. Culture24 writes:
A gripping story of space exploration revealing the hidden depths of the universe is coming to the National Media Museum’s IMAX screen in time for half-term.
The Bradford museum is welcoming IMAX: Hubble ...
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