Archive for November, 2011
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
We've posted new film stills and behind-the-scenes production stills from Space Junk 3D.
After 50 years of launching our dreams into space, we’re left with a troubling legacy: a growing ring of orbiting debris that casts a shadow over the future of space exploration. SPACE JUNK 3D is a visually explosive, ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
The UK will get to see Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol a week early with the recently announced December 21 IMAX release date. IMAX theaters in the US get it even earlier with a December 16 release date. The Globe and Mail reports:
Imax’s large-screen cinemas in the U.S. ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
The Blog of Legal Times writes:
Federal prosecutors in Washington are not giving up trying to get back the $225,000 that the government contends it mistakenly paid to the producers of an IMAX film about dinosaurs that is playing at the Smithsonian Institution.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
3net and Sister Networks Velocity and Military Channel to Offer 3D/2D Simulcast Sunday, December 4 at 10PM ET/PT
(Culver City, Ca.) 3net, the joint venture 24/7 3D network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX - will debut FIELDS OF VALOR: THE CIVIL WAR, the world's first native 3D war documentary, Saturday, December ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
The Motley Fool analyzes IMAX stock and why despite a rough year, IMAX's future still shows growth:
It's all about the movies
IMAX thrives on a specific type of action film, and 2010 was a historically good year for IMAX-type movies. You needed to look no further than Avatar for a movie ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
Leading UK Exhibitor to Open Three New IMAX Locations in England and Scotland
NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Cineworld Group PLC, one of the UK's leading cinema groups, today announced a revenue sharing agreement to install three new digital IMAX® ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Paramount Pictures has released a clip, featurette and new images from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.
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 must ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Sony Pictures has released a new poster and image from Underworld Awakening.
Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Universal Pictures has released a new featurette for upcoming film Dr. Seuss' The Lorax.
The animated adventure follows the journey of a boy as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Courtesy National Geographic Entertainment
Show Is National Geographic's First Original Production Made Specifically for Fulldome and Digital Planetarium Theaters
WASHINGTON (Nov. 22, 2011) - This month National Geographic Cinema Ventures (NGCV) launches "Wildest Weather in the Solar System," a show produced for fulldome and digital planetarium screens. It takes audiences on a ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Last week I attended the Swiss premiere of the film "Art of FLIGHT" - a state of the art production about extreme snowboarding with some of the most talented and experienced snowboarders of the world in spectacular landscapes and impressive and innovative photography. The theatre at the Swiss Museum of ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Latest Recruitment for the Planetarium Community
Photo: Steve Pushka, new Business Development Manager for Americas at Global Immersion
West Sussex, UK - November 22, 2011 - International planetarium provider, Global Immersion, is delighted to announce the appointment of Steve Pushka as Business Development Manager for the Americas. Bringing more than twelve years ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --Expedition Chesapeake is making waves on the web. Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts today unveiled a new website at www.expeditionchesapeake.org for the Center's $10 million initiative to entertain, educate and engage the 17 million residents of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
The website adds ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
The Hutchinson News reports:
The Cosmosphere will offer discounts, a new IMAX film and a live exotic animal exhibit for post-Thanksgiving weekend shoppers.
In addition to discounts on unique, activity-focused and educational gifts, the Cosmosphere's Carey IMAX Theater will feature the new family-oriented film, Born To Be Wild, narrated by Academy Award-winner ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
Online Experience Brings Robust Content Offering, Brave Visual Design, 2D/3D Video Content And More To Engage Today's Emerging 3D Consumer
CULVER CITY, Calif., Nov. 21, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- 3net, the joint venture 24/7 3D network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX, has launched 3net.com, the online experience of the 3net television ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
[Evanston, IL (November 18, 2011)] -- The Last Reef recently premiered to the giant screen industry at the GSCA Conference in Austin and the ASTC Conference in Baltimore and will be launching worldwide on February 3, 2012. The film is a co-production of Giant Screen Films, Yes/No Productions, and Liquid ...
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
Presented by the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center And "EARTH: The Operator's Manual" -- FREE, Reservation Required; Aboard the USS MIDWAY On TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011; 6:30PM-8:30PM
San Diego, CA, November 18, 2011 -- Join the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center for a night on the USS Midway to learn why ...
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History Selects RealD 3D Technology for Giant Screen Digital Theater
LOS ANGELES & HASTINGS, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RealD Inc. (NYSE: RLD), a leading global licensor of 3D technologies, and the Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History announced today that RealD has been selected as the 3D ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Here's the trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, the sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth.
In the film, Sean (Josh Hutcherson) accompanies his mother' husband (Dwayne Johnson) to find his grandfather (Michael Caine) who went missing while exploring a lost island.
The film has a planned release to ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Here's the first trailer for Dr. Suess' The Lorax.
The animated adventure follows the journey of a boy as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the ...
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