Archive for June, 2012
Friday, June 29th, 2012
New Season To Feature Performances by Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Shins, Foster the People, Feist And More
CULVER CITY, Calif., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 3net, the joint venture 24/7 3D network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX – will bring a new season of the seminal music program FROM THE ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
The poster for The Amazing Spider-Man midnight IMAX showings has been released. The poster will be handed out to those in attendance for the July 3 midnight IMAX screenings. The poster was designed exclusively for the event.
One of the world's most popular characters is back on the big ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
KCBD NewsChannel 11 writes:
Premiere Cinemas Movie Theater installed its IMAX screen Thursday. The screen itself is 70 ft. wide by 39 foot 3 inches tall and weighed 1,000 pounds. In total it took 10 men about 30 minutes to hang, with all the final odds and ends being tied down ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
Screen Daily writes:
It is good to have fans in high places. Imax heads into its biggest summer in history helped in part by Christopher Nolan shooting more than an hour of The Dark Knight Rises in the Imax format.
“Chris is unto himself the lead fanboy for the Imax network,” Imax ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
The Coast Source writes:
Some big projects are coming to Pooler – including an IMAX movie theater and ten acre water park. Construction crews are hard at work throughout the city. New businesses seem to be popping up everywhere.
“You can’t stop growth,” said Mike Lamb, the mayor of Pooler. “People ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
The Chicago Tribune reports:
China is pressing ahead with Dmax, its rival version of Imax, unveiling plans to equip 100 cinemas with the giant-screen format within three years.
The state-backed China Film Group, one of the system's developers, announced the news as China Film Stellar Theater Chain signed an agreement to purchase ...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Deal Represents IMAX's Largest Regional Signing in the U.S. to Date
NEW YORK, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Frank Theatres, a division of the Frank Entertainment Company (1906), today announced a revenue sharing agreement for 10 IMAX® theatres to be installed into existing complexes ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
New images from The Amazing Spider-Man have 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.
Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man and Emma Stone ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
A new clip has 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.
We Could
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Friday, June 22nd, 2012
Minneapolis, MN June 18, 2012 -- Dimension 3 Festival, the largest international festival for 3D productions, recently awarded the top Grand Prize to Melrae Pictures' Space Junk 3D.
"Being awarded the Grand Prix as one of 101 programs in competition from over 15 countries is truly an honor," states Director Melissa ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
A new featurette focusing on the costumes of 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. ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
NEW YORK, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Shaw Theatres Pte Ltd., a leading exhibitor in Singapore, today announced an agreement to install a new IMAX® theatre system to be located in a new complex in Punggol Watertown Point in Punggol, Singapore. Shaw's ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
June 20, 2012 -- (Las Vegas, Nevada) BIG & Digital is pleased to announce that they have retained the services of Cherie Larson Rivers as a consultant for film distribution and operations. Rivers has over 25 years experience in giant screen theaters at three major science centers in the United ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2012
NEW YORK, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) (TSX: IMX) today announced that Joseph Sparacio, Chief Financial Officer of IMAX Corporation, will speak at the Stifel Nicolaus 2012 Internet and Media Conference on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 8:35 am EDT. The conference is being held ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2012
NEW YORK, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX:IMX) today announced an agreement with Caspian Capital Limited to open an IMAX® theatre in Azerbaijan, marking IMAX's entry into the country. The theatre will be installed in the capital city of Baku into a new construction project ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
Company Signs Agreements with One Existing, Two New Exhibitor Partners
NEW YORK, June 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) announced it has signed agreements to open a total of three IMAX® theatre systems into new construction projects across Russia. The Company will install one system each with ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2012
A new clip from 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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Thursday, June 14th, 2012
StarNewsOnline writes:
Regal Mayfaire Stadium 16‘s new IMAX auditorium opens Friday with “Prometheus” in 3D, according to a Regal Entertainment Group news release.
The theater at 900 Town Center Drive at Mayfaire Town Center will showcase films through a newly installed IMAX digital projection system, specially-designed IMAX screen and a powerful audio ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2012
WILMINGTON, Del., Jun 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A few simple shovels will begin a major upgrade of entertainment technology in Northern Delaware later this morning. At 10 a.m., Penn Cinema will break ground on a $20 million IMAX and movie theater complex at Riverfront Wilmington that will offer hundreds ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2012
Building on Success of Film Partnership, Companies to Open IMAX Theatre in Tianjin, China
NEW YORK, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Nongken Bona Film Investment Co. Ltd. (Nongken Bona), a subsidiary of Bona Film Group (Nasdaq: BONA), today announced an agreement for an IMAX® ...
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