Archive for May, 2012
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Expansion of Revenue Share Agreement Brings Cinemas Guzzo's IMAX Commitment to Five
NEW YORK, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) today announced an expansion of its revenue sharing agreement with Cinemas Guzzo for an additional IMAX® theatre system to be located at the Mega-Plex Marche Central ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Film Generates $12.7 Million in IMAX theatres Globally
LOS ANGELES, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX), and Columbia Pictures today announced that the action comedy Men in Black™ 3 grossed $12.7 million at the box office in 474 IMAX® theatres worldwide during its 4-day opening weekend ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Ridley Scott's upcoming Prometheus continues to generate pre-sales in UK IMAX theaters. The Hollywood Reporter writes:
Ridley Scott's Prometheus is set to extend its own eye-popping record at the BFI Imax screen as it posts even larger numbers for ticket presages.
Scott's movie, starring a galaxy of stars including Michael Fassbender, ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
From BFI:
After 13 years of operation on the South Bank, we are about to replace our huge IMAX screen, measuring 26 metres wide and 20 metres high, with a brand new silver screen so that we can continue to bring you the biggest and brightest cinema experience in the UK. ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Earlier this spring, Giant Screen Films was pleased to partner with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to host a special screening of Tornado Alley for an enthusiastic audience of DC influencers. Recent tornado outbreaks have continued to provoke media attention and questions about the nature of these destructive ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Expansion follows Success of Cineworld's Existing IMAX Locations
NEW YORK, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Cineworld Group PLC, the UK's largest cinema chain, today announced an expansion of the companies' revenue sharing agreement with the addition of up to five new IMAX® theatre systems. ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Myrtle Beach Online reports:
The IMAX Theatre at Broadway at the Beach, which shut down in November, won’t reopen, but a new business will be moving into the former theater in time for the summer season, officials said.
Officials with the theater and Broadway owner Burroughs & Chapin Co. Inc. won’t say ...
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Release In One Of World's Leading Territories Continues Lionsgate's Successful Global Partnership With IMAX
SANTA MONICA, Calif. and TORONTO, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX), one of the world's leading entertainment and technology companies, and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), a leading global entertainment company, today announced ...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
A four-minute preview for The Amazing Spider-Man has been released.
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.
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
The first trailer for Skyfall 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. As MI6 comes ...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Bloomberg reports:
China's largest entertainment group agreed to buy AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. for $2.6 billion including debt, expanding into the U.S. to create the world's biggest cinema owner.
The deal by Dalian Wanda Group, controlled by billionaire real-estate developer Wang Jianlin, marks the largest-ever buyout of a U.S. company by a ...
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
LOS ANGELES, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX), and Columbia Pictures today announced that the action comedy Men in Black™ 3 will be released in the immersive IMAX® format in 474 theatres worldwide beginning Friday, May 25, simultaneous with the film's North American wide ...
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
WASHINGTON (May 21, 2012) -- "Flying Monsters 3D," a state-of-the-art adventure film that immerses audiences in the world of prehistoric pterosaurs, has surpassed $5 million in total worldwide gross box office, National Geographic Cinema Ventures (NGCV) has announced. Produced by award-winning Atlantic Productions in association with Sky 3D, and written ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
A new teaser poster for Skyfall 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. As MI6 ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
WILMINGTON, Del., May 18, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Riverfront Wilmington, already home to a thriving neighborhood, flourishing employment center and popular cultural attractions, will add a premier Westin hotel and a state-of-the-art Penn Cinema movie theater complex with IMAX theater. The Riverfront Development Corporation (RDC) Board of Directors approved the ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Check out this new film still from upcoming sci-fi thriller Prometheus.
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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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The Hollywood Reporter writes:
Giant screen exhibitor Imax Corp. increasingly gets agreement from Hollywood studios to swap a box office dud committed to its screens for a juggernaut more likely to draw foot traffic.
“We’ve learned to have back-ups,” Imax CEO Richard Gelfond told the J.P. Morgan Global Technology Media and Telecom ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The Greater Wilmington Business Journal reports:
A popular motion picture film concept will soon be debuting at the Mayfaire Stadium 16 movie theatre.
Paige Kon, Mayfaire marketing director, said the town center’s development office was notified last week of Regal Theatre’s plans to convert one of its theatre screens into an ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
DailyFinance writes:
IMAX (NYS: IMAX) is in a good place right now.
The company behind the supersized theatrical experiences issued its mid-quarter box office update yesterday.
The gross box office receipts collected during this quarter on IMAX screenings -- through May 13 -- was roughly $96.5 million, nearly triple the $32.6 million in ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
A new featurette for Men in Black 3 has been released focusing on Will Smith's Agent J.
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, ...
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