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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF) today announced an agreement to jointly finance, market and distribute up to four films produced by MFF to be released exclusively to IMAX(®) theatres. The deal includes an option for the parties to extend the agreement for an additional four films upon completion of the four co-financed films. The companies' collaboration will also benefit from IMAX's extensive...
LOS ANGELES, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation, (NYSE:IMAX; TSX:IMX) MacGillivray Freeman Films, and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that the documentary adventure To The Arctic will debut exclusively in 50 select IMAX® theatres in North America, beginning Friday, April 20. Additional theatres will be added as the footprint expands domestically and internationally over the coming months. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111107/MM01969LOGO ) An...
SEATTLE, Aug. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Film buffs will be treated to 15 classic widescreen movies during the Cinerama Film Festival, including extremely rare 70mm prints from studio vaults and the archives of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110825/SF58054LOGO) The festival opens Sept. 30 at Seattle Cinerama Theatre and runs through Oct. 16. Opening weekend will feature two of only seven movies ever produced for Cinerama's...
SEATTLE, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The treasured Seattle Cinerama Theatre is getting a 21st Century technical upgrade with state-of-the-art digital sound and pictures along with a refurbishment of the classic, mid-century, wide-screen theater. The two-month project will ensure that Cinerama remains a vital piece of Seattle's entertainment experience, where movie goers will be able to see a wide diversity of programming, from the latest 3-D blockbusters to indie films on the festival circuit....
By Tony Lucia, Reading Eagle, Pa. Aug. 3--Seems everybody's always looking for the next big thing. And now it's here. On Friday, Reading Movies 11 will open at 30 N. Second St., and local audiences will find themselves face to face with the phenomenon aptly named IMAX. In its simplest terms, IMAX consists of a big, curved screen -- this one is 42 feet tall by 70 feet wide -- on which are projected large-format films. As if that's not impressive p enough g ,, you also are bathed in...
Rick Pukis experienced a thrilling roller coaster ride at the 1974 Spokane, Wash., World's Fair without leaving the movie theater. Mr. Pukis, an associate professor of communications specializing in television and cinema at Augusta State University, still remembers his first IMAX movie. "It's a whole other viewing experience," he said. "It plants you like you are there." The "IMAX experience" could come closer to home for Augusta moviegoers. IMAX and the Regal Entertainment Group plan to...
LOS ANGELES, CA, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ:IMAX; TSX:IMX) and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience continued its unprecedented box office performance with the highest grossing second weekend in IMAX history. The IMAX release grossed $4.6 million on 94 domestic IMAX screens, from Friday July 25 through Sunday July 27, bringing the film's domestic total to $16.3 million. Internationally, the film grossed approximately...
Moviegoers will be lining up around the block to get the hottest ticket in town when The Dark Knight opens at The Henry Ford IMAX on July 18, 2008. The follow-up to the action hit Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. Concurrently with the film's debut in commercial 35mm and digital theatres, The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience will be released in IMAX theatres...
