Archive for August, 2011
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Warner Bros. Pictures has released 13 clips from upcoming thriller Contagion.
The film follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. ...
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
A new poster for upcoming film Real Steel has been released.
Hugh Jackman headlines as washed-up fighter Charlie Kenton, who lost his chance at a title when 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. When he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son, Charlie gets one last shot at a comeback.
The ...
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
KCRG reports:
The Cedar Rapids Science Center has asked City Hall to end the center’s $1-a-year lease on the city’s former fire station on First Street SE because the center is on the verge of selling its two buildings, including the former IMAX Dome Theatre, that flank the former firehouse.
Dan Thies, ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
Producers Jake Eberts and George Duffield discuss their upcoming film Jerusalem 3D coming in 2013 to IMAX theaters:
The Jerusalem Post spoke with Duffield and Ferguson by phone last week to understand how the team expects to create a documentary about Jerusalem that is both all-inclusive and unbiased.
Time and time again, ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
Warner Bros. Pictures has released a full gallery of images from upcoming thriller Contagion.
The film follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
Rescue 3D, Legends of Flight 3D and The Wildest Dream are set to play St. Augustine, Florida's World Golf Hall of Fame IMAX:
Visitors to the World Golf Hall of Fame IMAX Theater will see three new films beginning in September.
The new movies will be “The Wildest Dream,” “Rescue 3D” and ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Business Insider takes a look into NYSE's move into tech IPOs including acquiring IMAX:
Once the gap in listing requirements and technology between the NYSE and Nasdaq were narrowed, the NYSE played up the importance of a still-potent asset: its 200-year-old brand. It has marketed itself to Nasdaq-listed companies and encouraged ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Lineup Includes Exclusive 3D Animated Series, Live-Action Programs, Family-Friendly Sony Theatrical Titles and More
(Culver City, Calif.) -- 3net, the joint venture 24/7 3D Network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX, will expand its dynamic lineup of compelling, native 3D television content with the debut of the world’s first dedicated kids 3D ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Specifically Developed to Meet the Challenges of Precision Needed Both for 3D and 4K Cinematography
London, England, and Irvine, CA, August 25, 2011 -- Meduza Systems, the Mario Award winning producer of the Meduza Camera, will launch the Delta 4K S3D Meduza Lens, the first built for purpose, matched pair, 3D ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Jiangsu Eudemonia Blue Ocean to Operate Eight IMAX(R) Theatres by 2014
NEW YORK, Aug 25, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) and Jiangsu Eudemonia Blue Ocean Cinema Development Co., Ltd. (Blue Ocean) today announced an agreement to install four new digital IMAX(R) theatre systems in the People's Republic ...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
NBC-WKTV News Channel 2 reports:
Part of Central New York will soon make its way to the big screen, the really big screen - IMAX theaters.
'Animal Planet' TV personality Jeff Corwin will be hosting an IMAX movie called 'Expedition Chesapeake', and he and his crew began filming Monday afternoon in ...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Film Grosses $1,095 Billion to Date
LOS ANGELES, Aug 23, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) and Paramount Pictures announced today that Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third film in the blockbuster Transformers franchise, is returning to 246 IMAX(R) domestic locations for an extended two-week run from ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Highly selective venues embrace Dolby 3D to enhance education and deliver dramatic realism to visitors
Building on the global success of its flexible, premium 3D technology, Dolby Laboratories, Inc., (NYSE: DLB) today announced a growing list of specialty exhibitors who have selected Dolby as their 3D partner. Famed institutions have chosen ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Wired UK takes a look at IMAX digital projection via the Odeon IMAX Cinema in Greenwich:
Photo: Rob Boffard
"I could teach you how to do this in an hour," says Jim Warburton. We're in the projection room of the Odeon IMAX 3D cinema in Greenwich. Warburton is standing next to two ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
PennLive.com writes:
This afternoon, Whitaker Center CEO Michael Hanes will paddle a kayak down the Susquehanna River near Cooperstown, N.Y., accompanied by globe-trotting celebrity biologist Jeff Corwin and a handful of scientists who study the fragile Chesapeake Bay watershed.
The goal of the trip is not science per se, but rather a ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
NORWALK, CT - Dinosaurs are about to go extinct again, with only a few days left to enjoy the “Dinosaur Summer” exhibit at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk.
It may have been a comet that did in the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, but it’s the looming end of a contractual ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
CNET takes a look at the custom built Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) featured in the Giant Screen film Tornado Alley:
Filmmaker Sean Casey has been chasing tornadoes for more than a decade. And it takes one tough ride to get in and out of the violent storms safely.
We met up ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
HollywoodChicago.com has posted this great review of Rescue 3D. The film is currently playing in IMAX, Giant Screen and other specialty theaters in 3D and 2D:
With the tenth anniversary of September 11th on the horizon, “Rescue 3D” is a nice reminder of the first responders who step into the ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Paramount Pictures has released a new image from Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol featuring Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner.
This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team ...
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Warner Bros. Pictures has released a new Contagion poster which combines the previous six character posters.
The film follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads ...
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