Archive for April, 2012
Monday, April 30th, 2012
Nine new clips have been released from Dark Shadows.
Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series “Dark Shadows” to the big screen in a film featuring an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter.
The film opens in IMAX theaters May 11, 2012.
A Vampire!
Locked In A ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
NEW YORK, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) today announced its participation in the following investor conferences in May:
Jefferies 2012 Global Technology, Media & Telecom Conference
The Westin New York – New York, NY
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 @ 10:30 am EST / 7:30 am PST
JP Morgan 2012 Global ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
Warner Bros. Pictures has released new images from Dark Shadows.
Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series “Dark Shadows” to the big screen in a film featuring an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter.
The film opens in IMAX theaters May 11, 2012.
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
Check out these character posters from Tim Burton's upcoming film, Dark Shadows.
Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series "Dark Shadows" to the big screen in a film featuring an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter.
The film opens in IMAX theaters May 11, 2012.
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
A new featurette from Marvel's The Avengers has been released.
When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
Wired.com writes:
If you’re a fan of IMAX movies and you live in Portland, Oregon, here’s a pretty cool opportunity coming up. Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) will be having an IMAX film festival from May 8 through July 1. They’ll be screening 28 films, both old and new, ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
Marvel's The Avengers is selling well in IMAX 3D presage and overseas tickets. The Orlando Sentinel reports:
Marvel's "The Avengers" is proving to be greater than the sum of its superhero parts, at least when it come to box-office presales.
With a week and a day to go before its domestic ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
NEW YORK, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
HIGHLIGHTS
Q1 2012 Gross Box Office Up 95% year-over-year to $121.7 million
Q1 2012 Revenues Increased 23% to $55.6 million
Q1 2012 Adjusted Net Income Increased 58% to $4.0 million
Summer 2012 Slate Kicks off This Week with the International Release of The Avengers: ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
A new Prometheus featurette featuring director Ridley Scott has been released.
Ridley Scott, director of "Alien" and "Blade Runner," returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
The San Luis Obispo Tribune writes:
An IMAX movie theater could be rolling into downtown San Luis Obispo.
Local developers Rob Rossi and John King want the city to approve plans to build an IMAX theater behind the Fremont theater, where a small parking lot is located.
The Fremont Square Entertainment Complex is ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
A new featurette from To the Arctic has been released.
An extraordinary journey to the top of the world, the documentary adventure To the Arctic tells the ultimate tale of survival. Narrated by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep, the film takes audiences on a never-before-experienced journey into the lives of a mother ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
A new Skyfall featurette focusing on Shanghai filming location has been released.
Daniel Craig is back as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in SKYFALL, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time. In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Businessweek writes:
Imax Corp. (IMAX) (IMAX), the pioneer of large- screen cinema, has begun testing a prototype laser-projection system, based on patents licensed from Eastman Kodak Co. (EKDKQ) (EKDKQ), that improves picture quality with brighter light.
The system, which uses two projectors and incorporates Mississauga, Ontario-based Imax’s image-enhancing technology, will allow movies ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
A new featurette from To the Arctic has been released.
An extraordinary journey to the top of the world, the documentary adventure To the Arctic tells the ultimate tale of survival. Narrated by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep, the film takes audiences on a never-before-experienced journey into the lives of a mother ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
A new featurette has been released from Marvel's The Avengers.
When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Three new images from Prometheus have been released.
Ridley Scott, director of "Alien" and "Blade Runner," returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Two new pictures have been released 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.
The film opens in IMAX 3D theaters July 3, 2012.
Andrew Garfield stars as Spider-Man/Peter Parker ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Business Standard reports:
Leading global entertainment company Imax Corporation plans to have as many as 17 theatres in India by next year, up from three now, and will soon begin talks with Indian film producers to purchase the rights of Bollywood films for conversion into its own high-tech format.
Canada-based Imax Corporation ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Christopher Nolan's upcoming film, The Dark Knight Rises, may feature over an hour of IMAX footage. Entertainment Weekly writes:
Christopher Nolan doesn’t do 3D. That’s probably a good thing: The post-Avatar excitement about 3D filmmaking quickly devolved into cash grabs like Clash of the Titans and Alice in Wonderland, successful ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
Deseret News writes:
Most IMAX and 3-D theaters have gone Hollywood in recent years, but there is still a place for the educational films that put IMAX on the map.
Touted as the ultimate movie experience, the gigantic-screen IMAX was originally popular among educational institutions and kids on elementary school field trips ...
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