GSCA International
Conference and Trade Show
September 9–12, 2008
Jersey City and New York City
Host: Liberty Science Center, Jersey City
Co-host: AMC Lincoln Square IMAX Theatre, New York
Conference Hotel: Hyatt Regency Jersey City
These films in production will be presented at the GSCA Conference in Jersey City.
WT = Working Title
FT = Final Title
Films are listed alphabetically. Film descriptions are provided by distributors.
ANIMALOPOLIS (FT)
Production Company: Graphic Films
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
Release Date: September 2008 (2D), December 2008 (3D)
Film Format: 2D and 3D
Singing lions, bears that waltz, sea lions turning somersaults. Otters pray, flamingos squawk, a calf who'd rather dance than walk. Children will want to watch it again and again. Animalopolis--a giant screen matinee film for a truly brand new audience. You'll like it, too. With 12 hilarious segments, each featuring a different animal, Animalopolis will stimulate children's imaginations and curiosity about the creatures they're seeing.
ARABIA 3D (WT)
Production Company and Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Mike Lutz
Release Dates: June 2009
Film Format: 2D and 3D
Arabia mystifies us, shimmering like a desert mirage. Follow the quest of a film student to photograph the real Arabia. Explore the ancient tombs of a lost city. Dive the Red Sea. Experience the largest, most visually amazing gathering of people on Earth. Open your eyes to unexpected Arabia.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 YEARS (FT)
Production Company and Distributor: nWave Pictures
Contact: Goedele Gillis
Release Dates: September 2009
Film Format: 3D
Around the World in 50 Years 3D tells the life story of a sea turtle from birth in 1959 to maturity in 2009. This computer-generated, animated tale is a coming-of-age movie about growing up and friendship. Spending 50 years in the oceans puts us in an unusual vantage point to witness some of the major changes that the ever growing human presence is having on our planet.
EAGLE EYE: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (FT)
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Contact: Victoria Montoya
Release Date: September 2008
Format: 2D
Eagle Eye is a race-against-time thriller starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations--using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country's most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening--and more importantly, why.
GRAND CANYON 3-D (FT)
Production Company: Destination Cinema Inc.
Distributor: National Geographic
Contact: Mark Katz
Release Date: 2nd quarter 2009
Film Format: 3D
Grand Canyon 3-D: The Hidden Secrets--Grossing over $250 million, this classic film is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a new enhanced 3D conversion of the original film. Audiences will fall in love all over again with the majestic beauty of one of the world’s most extraordinary natural wonders.
JOURNEY TO MECCA (WT)
Production Company: Cosmic Picture/SK Films
Contact: Jonathan Barker
Release Date: January 2009
Film Format: 2D
Journey to Mecca is the story of the greatest traveler in history, Ibn Battuta, and his epic journey in 1326 to perform the Hajj, one of the most spectacular gatherings of people on Earth, which we witness as it was experienced in the 14th century and by millions today.
LEGENDS OF THE SKY 3D (FT)
Production Company: K2 Communications (Executive Producer), The Stephen Low Company (Producer)
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
Release Date: March 2009
Film Format: 2D and 3D
Legends of the Sky website
Fly in the cockpit of some of aviation history’s most amazing aircraft. See how the design challenges, financial risks, and many lessons learned from a century of aviation trial and error have brought us to the dawn of a new era of revolutionary aircraft: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus 380.
MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (FT)
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Contact: Victoria Montoya
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Film Format: 2D
This witty sequel to the much loved original film continues the New York Zoo animals' adventure stranded on the island of Madagascar, where Alex the lion discovers his family, but communication is difficult and things have changed since his time in the Central Park Zoo.
THE MAGIC TALE 3D (WT)
Production Company: Orbita Max
Contact: Nerea Rubio
Release Date: December 2009
Film Format: 2D and 3D
Jana starts a fantastic journey to Africa searching for a friend. She meets other children, animals, and plants and finds out that the meaning of life resides in beauty and true love for others. A spiritual journey for adults and a magical one for kids.
MOLECULES TO THE MAX (WT)
Production Company: Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in conjunction with Nanotoon Productions
Distributor: SK Films, Inc.
Contact: Jonathan Barker
Release Date: Winter 2008-09
Film Format: 2D
Molecularium website
This animated film adventure brings audiences into amazingly small places and fascinates them with incredibly big ideas. Blast through space on the Molecularium ship with Oxy and friends. Explore inside places you have never been: snowflakes, pennies, chewing gum, and a human cell. Tested high as a delight for families, teachers and kids. Entertaining and educational--to the MAX.
MONSTERS VS. ALIENS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (FT)
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Contact: Victoria Montoya
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Film Format: 2D and 3D
Susan Murphy was just a normal girl from California until a meteorite from outer space collides into her, transforming her into a giant monster. When aliens invade, she and a group of eccentric misfits are the world's last hope for victory and survival.
OUTSIDE IN (FT)
Production Company: Outside In Films and SV2 Studios
Contact Name: Stephen van Vuuren
Release Date: October 2010
Film Format: 2D
Outside In is a giant screen visual symphony that aims to artistically bridge science and spirituality as it journeys from the big bang to the Cassini-Huygens Mission at Saturn. Created entirely from still photographs animated to create full motion imagery, the films melds visual poetry, narrative, and documentary forms.
QUANTUM QUEST (FT)
Production Company: Jupiter 9 Productions and Digimax Animation Studio
Contact Name: Rayna Napali
Release Date: September 2009
Film Format: 2D and 3D
Quantum Quest is CGI, 3D, science, science fiction film initiated and sponsored by Cassini-Huygens NASA mission. It combines live footage from 7 ongoing space missions with a fantastic atomic journey. Cast includes Neil Armstrong, Samuel Jackson, Chris Pine, Amanda Peet, Sandra Oh, Jason Alexander, and many more.
RED CRABS 3D: AUSTRALIA'S CHRISTMAS ISLAND (FT)
Production Company: Mark Simpfendorfer Productions
Contact Name: Mark Simpfendorfer
Release Date: January 2009
Film Format: 2D and 3D
Deep in the Indian Ocean is the tropical oasis of Christmas Island. The monsoon clouds signal the beginning of the wet season, and millions of Red Crabs march off to the ocean to breed. However, the Red Crab numbers have dropped from hundreds of millions to around thirty million in just over a hundred years of settlement. Join the Red Crabs on their epic journey not just to breed but for the survival of their species.
RETURN TO EVEREST 3D (WT)
Production Company: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Mike Lutz
Release Date: February 2011
Film Format: 2D and 3D
An international team of doctors and scientists embarks on a three-month expedition conducting a series of medical experiments on the world’s tallest mountain. Return to Everest also reunites climbers Jamling Norgay and Araceli Segarra as they help the Nepalese Sherpa people and note what has changed since their successful 1996 climb.
SHARKWATER 3D (WT)
Production Company: Sharkwater Productions/RPG Productions
Release Date: March 2009
Film Format: 2D and 3D
Contact: Rick Gordon
Sharkwater explores this beautiful, misunderstood, and now endangered predator. Rob Stewart's heartfelt journey to understand why people are killing sharks takes him to the most shark-rich waters on Earth, and into the dangerous world of shark poaching. A 40-minute version of the multi-award winning film, made specially for the giant screen.
SLIT SCAN 3D (FT)
Production Company and Distributor: Graphic Films
Contact: Paul Novros
Release Date: December 2008
Film Format: 3D
A spectacular, fully immersive, one-minute Slit Scan ride through time and space, culminating with a customized theater logo credit. Already leased by over 50 theaters in 2D, and now available in 3D.
TO THE ARCTIC (WT)
Production Company: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact Name: Shaun MacGillivray
Release Date: February 2010
Film Format: 2D and 3D
In the midst of calving glaciers and sub-zero water temperatures, scientists study under-ice reefs, prehistoric sharks and Beluga whales. Topside, polar bears, caribou, and local Inuit villagers struggle with the dramatic changes on their land and showcase how what's happening there has global implications important to us all.
UNDER THE SEA 3D (FT)
Production Company: Warner Bros., IMAX Corporation
Contact: Victoria Montoya
Release Date: March 2009
Film Format: 2D and 3D
Under the Sea 3D will capture the very strange and unusual sea creatures inhabiting some of the most isolated and exotic locations on Earth. These amazing sequences will be used to support an important underlying environmental theme.
WATCHMEN: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (FT)
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Contact: Victoria Montoya
Release Date: March 2009
Film Format: 2D
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society and the "Doomsday Clock," which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union, is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion--a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers--Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the Watchmen?
WE THE PEOPLE (FT)
Production Company: Inland Sea Productions
Distributor: Inland Sea Productions/Jodi Miller
Contact: Aimee Larrabee
Release Date: February 2009
Film Format: 2D
We The People is the centerpiece of a comprehensive educational program that brings to life and relevance, for both school and general audiences, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. State-of-the-art motion graphics and the music of America's greatest composers enhance powerful reenactments.