Archive for January, 2012
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Clips from upcoming Giant Screen film, Flight of the Butterflies 3D, were shown at Advertising Week:
Top directors like James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Werner Herzog and Martin Scorsese are among those making a big impact by filming in 3D.
Based on some preview clips from an upcoming IMAX 3D film, shared with ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
DENVER, Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Few aircraft since the Wright Flyer have truly become an "Aircraft of Legend." Like the DC-3, the technological advancements of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are expected to profoundly impact commercial aviation. The Living Legends of Aviation have chosen the Boeing 787 Dreamliner ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Agreement with SPI Cinemas Private Limited Expands IMAX Commercial Network to 13 Theatres in India
NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX (NYSE: IMAX) (TSX:IMX) and SPI Cinemas Private Limited (SPI) today announced an agreement to install four digital IMAX® theatre systems in new SPI Cinemas complexes across India. ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Six clips and a new featurette from Journey 2: The Mysterious Island have been released.
17-year-old Sean Anderson receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist. It’s a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret.
The film ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
The first trailer for Jack the Giant Killer has been released.
The film tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Jack the Giant Killer opens in IMAX 3D theaters March 22, 2013.
BMZ ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
A new TV spot for Dr. Seuss' The Lorax has been released.
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 ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Sony Pictures has released two images from Men in Black 3.
In MEN IN BLACK™ 3, Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back ... in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Sony Pictures has released a new image from The Amazing Spider-Man.
One of the world's most popular characters is back on the big screen as a new chapter in the Spider-Man legacy is revealed in The Amazing Spider-Man. Focusing on an untold story that tells a different side of the Peter ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Denver Museum of Nature and Science curator, Joe Sertich, talks about the film, Flying Monsters, currently playing at their IMAX theater:
Westword: Tell us a little about the pterosaur. Why isn't it that well-known?
Joe Sertich: It's often mistaken as a dinosaur, and they're closely related, but basically it was the first ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Warner Bros. Pictures has released new images from Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.
17-year-old Sean Anderson receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist. It’s a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret.
The film opens in ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Cross the Event Horizon and Plunge into the Center of a Black Hole.
It's the Closest You'll Ever Get to Experiencing the Real Thing!
San Diego CA - January 25, 2012 -- There's a place from which nothing escapes, not even light, where time and space literally come to end. Cross the ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Denver Westword interviews filmmaker Sean Casey on his latest film, Tornado Alley:
Westword: How did you come up with the idea for Tornado Alley?
Sean Casey: We had been doing an IMAX film called Forces of Nature covering tornadoes. That was back in 1999. In that production I fell in love with ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
The New York Times writes:
For the IMAX Corporation, the future is brighter, larger and in 3-D.
The company is developing prototypes of new laser technologies that will allow for drastically larger and brighter screens by 2013.
“We have purchased the rights to parts of 10,000 patents from Kodak that will throw much ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
The Blu-ray 3D release of Born to Be Wild will hit stores April 17, 2012. High-Def Digest reports:
Another IMAX documentary is slated for both Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D this April.
In an early announcement to retailers, Warner Brothers is preparing 'IMAX: Born to Be Wild' and 'IMAX: Born to Be ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Monthly Planetarium Show "The Sky Tonight" Returns February 1; Daily Planetarium Show BLACK HOLES: The Other Side of Infinity Opens February 4 for an Open-Ended Run
State-of-the-Art GSX(TM) Giant Screen System Promises to Transport Audiences to Infinity - and Beyond!
San Diego, CA January 20, 2012 -- The Reuben H. Fleet ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
(L-R)Jacek Szymanski, Publication and Imagery Coordinator for Navy Public Affairs in Ottawa and Italian General Antonio Bettelli
Giant Screen 3D film, Rescue, took home first prize in the "Current Affairs" category at the 22nd International Military Film Festival "Armed Forces and People" held in Bracciano, Italy in November. Jacek Szymanski, ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Film Breaks Record for Highest-Grossing Chinese-Produced Movie Released in the IMAX Format
BEIJING, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX; TSX:IMX) and Bona Film Group (Nasdaq: BONA), a leading film distributor in China, today announced that the 3D martial arts motion picture Flying Swords of Dragon Gate has generated more ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Journey Begins Exclusively In IMAX® Theatres Starting April 20, 2012
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX), MacGillivray Freeman Films, and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that two-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep will narrate To The Arctic 3D. The film will be released exclusively ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Los Angeles, January 24, 2012 -- The Visual Effects Society (VES) is pleased to announce that Patton Oswalt (Young Adult, Ratatouille) will host the 10th Annual VES Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. This will be the popular comedian and actor's third appearance at the ...
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Co.Design has this feature on new film, Space Junk 3D, now playing in IMAX, Giant Screen and other specialty theaters:
Our civilization relies on the fleet of satellites orbiting the planet, for everything from TV broadcasts to credit card payments. There’s a lot of them--974 in operation at last count. We’ve ...
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