The following 15/70 clips of films in production have been submitted for screening at the GSCA 2011 International Conference and Trade Show. Additional titles will be added to this list as they are submitted.
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FT = Final Title
WT = Working Title
Dinosaur Passage to Pangaea (FT)
Release Date: September 2011
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Digital
Length: 38 minutes
Producer: Tandem Motion Picture Studios
Distributor: Cinema Group
Contact: Richard James
Dinosaur Passage to Pangaea is a stop-motion, 3D animated adventure explaining one of the greatest geological events in the history of the Earth: the separation of the supercontinent Pangaea. When two children embark on a geology field trip back in time, they are thrown into a fantastic voyage where they witness incredible geological wonders and learn the mysterious process that created our present-day continents. From racing across the landscape atop Dinosaurs to plummeting to the center of the Earth, Dinosaur Passage to Pangaea is the perfect educational glimpse at the tectonic forces that forged our world. It is the ultimate field trip!
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures (WT)
Release Date: June 2012
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70
Length: 37 minutes
Producer: Productions Thalie
Distributor: Big & Digital
Contact: Yves Fortin
Among all the fantastic creatures that have been created within the imaginations of humans through the ages, dragons have filled an immovable place in our hearts and minds. Dreaded in Occident and venerated in the Orient, they have a place in every mythology in the world. Follow two peculiar characters—one an unusual dream therapist and the second his mysterious patient—as they dig up and "live" many spectacularly reenacted classical myths with different dragon types and incarnations in the search for the root of a recurring nightmare.
Everest: Conquering Thin Air 3D (WT)
Release Date: Spring 2013
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Digital
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Shaun MacGillivray
One critically ill hospital patient lives. Another dies. Why? An international team of doctors, scientists and filmmakers embark on a three-month mission to conduct a series of medical experiments on the world’s tallest mountain. The team documents the expedition as they undertake the largest high altitude medical study ever conducted to understand how we adapt to oxygen deprivation. They’re joined by Araceli Segarra and Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the heart and soul of Everest (the most successful IMAX documentary of all time) at the scene of their successful 1996 climb.
Flatland: Search for the Third Dimension (FT)
Release Date: Winter 2011
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Digital, Fulldome
Film Length: 35-minute and 20-minute versions
Producer: Objects in Motion Pictures, RPG Productions
Distributor: RPG Productions
Contact: Rick Gordon
This dramatic CGI adaptation introduces a whole new generation of viewers to Edwin Abbott’s beloved mathematical adventure novel Flatland, the story of a world of only two dimensions inhabited by geometric shapes who discover the existence of the 3rd Dimension. Explains difficult math concepts in an engaging and creative way. Voices of Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, and Michael York. In 2D and 3D. Available in 35-minute and 20-minute versions.
Great White Shark 3D (WT)
Release Date: 2012
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Digital
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: Yes/No Productions
Contact: Julia Walter
Misrepresented, maligned, and on the verge of extinction, the Great White Shark is an iconic predator: the creature we love to fear. GW3D will explore the Great White's place in our imaginations, in our fears, and in the reality of its role at the top of the oceanic food chain. The film will concentrate on three key aggregation points around the world: Mexico, South Africa, and New Zealand. Key figures in the history of shark research, people whose lives have been changed by contact with the Great White, will tell us of their experiences, culminating in a direct encounter between man and shark.
Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D Experience (FT)
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Available Formats: 3D only, 15/70, Digital
Length: TBD
Producer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures, IMAX Corporation
Contact: Thomas Wyss
The sequel to the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit, Happy Feet Two returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica, reuniting us with the world's most famous tap-dancing penguin, Mumble (Elijah Wood), the love of his life, Gloria (Alecia Moore {Pink}) and their old friends Ramon and Lovelace (Robin Williams). Mumble and Gloria now have a son of their own, Erik (EG Daily), who is struggling to find his own particular talents in the Emperor Penguin world. But new dangers are threatening the penguin nation, and it's going to take everyone working—and dancing—together to save them.
Jerusalem (WT)
Release Date: 2013
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, 8/70, Digital
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: Arcane/Cosmic Picture
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Daniel Ferguson
Journey into the heart of history. For the first time on the giant screen, experience the Holy Land in 3D. Explore secret underground passages and ancient tombs, visit the places of the bible, and find out why Jerusalem remains sacred to billions of people.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol: The IMAX Experience (FT)
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Available Formats: 2D only, 15/70, Digital
Length: TBD
Producer: Paramount Pictures
Distributor: Paramount Pictures, IMAX Corporation
Contact: Thomas Wyss
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the new film in the series which has grossed $2 billion dollars worldwide, will feature locations in Dubai, Moscow, Prague, and Vancouver. The film is directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) and produced by Tom Cruise and Bad Robot partners J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol continues the legacy of The Dark Knight and its revolutionary integration of IMAX original footage as this fourth chapter in the Mission: Impossible franchise will feature scenes shot with IMAX cameras. These specific sequences, exclusively in IMAX, will expand on the screen and further immerse the audience in the explosive action and vast scope of the film.
Outside In (FT)
Release Date: December 2012
Available Formats: 2D only, 15/70, Digital, Fulldome
Film Length: 42 minute
Producer/Distributor: SV2 Studios
Contact: Stephen van Vuuren
Outside In is a non-profit giant screen film that takes audiences on a journey of the mind, heart, and spirit from the big bang through the history of the universe and humanity via the Cassini-Huygens Mission at Saturn. Currently in production after years of development, Outside In aims for global distribution late next year. The release of the first footage from the film went viral this spring, resulting over 3.2 million hits and global media coverage in over 200 countries. Composed entirely of actual photographs from space missions, astronomers, telescope, and vast historical sources animated using innovative visual techniques developed by the filmmaker, Outside In stretches the boundaries of the motion picture form. The film will be a groundbreaking visual experience for audiences with moving music and powerful sound design. The release will include an extensive outreach and educational plan in concert with science advocacy groups around the world.
Overlord (WT)
Release Date: Fall 2013
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Digital
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: N3D Land Productions
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Catherine Vuong
When visiting Normandy nowadays, it's hard to imagine how these wonderful beaches running along the quiet countryside became, 67 years ago, hell on Earth. D-Day itself is a well-known event, yet only a few people know exactly why and how this region in Western Europe became, from the end of 1943 until August 1944, the most important place in the world. Overlord takes advantage of the giant screen in order to explain and show, in the most creative and impressive way, how the fate of the present-day world has been played, not only on D-Day but months, even years before; not only on the beaches in Normandy but everywhere in the world, especially in England and North America; not only by hundreds of thousands of soldiers but by civilians too… From November 1943 to the end of August 1944, audiences will know how these "Days Changed the World."
Real Steal: The IMAX Experience (FT)
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Available Formats: 2D only, 15/70, Digital
Length: TBD
Producer: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, IMAX Corporation
Contact: Thomas Wyss
A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.
Red Crabs: Australia's Christmas Island (WT)
Release Date: 2013
Available Formats: 3D only, 15/70, Digital
Length: 42 minutes
Producer: STREAMnet Digital
Distributor: BIG & Digital
Contact: Aaron Kennedy
Deep in the Indian Ocean is the tropical oasis of Christmas Island. The Island is home to over 20 endemic species, from ocean birds to enormous crabs. When monsoon clouds signal the beginning of the wet season, 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 human settlement. Join the Red Crabs on their epic journey not just to breed but for the survival of their species.
Space Junk 3D (FT)
Release Date: 2010
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Digital
Length: 20-minute and 40-minute versions
Producer/Distributor: Melrae Pictures
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
After 50 years of launching our dreams into space, we're left with a troubling legacy: a growing ring of orbiting debris that casts a shadow over the future of space exploration. Space Junk 3D is a visually explosive, sensory-expanding voyage into our now-threatened Final Frontier. Experience mindboggling collisions, both natural and manmade. Soar from the stunning depths of Meteor Crater to an unprecedented view of our increasingly crowded orbit --22,000 miles above Earth. Join us as the foremost expert, also known as the "Father of Space Junk," guides us through the challenges we face in protecting them, forging a new age of space discovery.
To the Arctic (FT)
Release Date: Spring 2012
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Digital
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Alice Casbara-Leek
To The Arctic 3D will transport audiences to the ocean and tundra of the far north to witness the amazing richness and complexity of this environment. Venture across floating ice with a mother polar bear and her two cubs as they struggle to survive. Discover the extraordinary underwater world of the Arctic sea with beluga whales, Greenland sharks and walruses. Fly above a thundering herd of caribou making their way to their calving ground. A visually breathtaking story of life in the Arctic and the rapid changes occurring there because of climate change.
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Flying Monsters 3D (FT)
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Digital
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: Atlantic Productions
Distributor: National Geographic Entertainment
Contact: Mark Katz
Flying Monsters 3D is a pioneering documentary about the prehistoric world of pterosaurs—flying vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet who lived 160 million years ago. With the help of cutting edge 3D technology, audiences will be immersed in the lush and alien environment in which these creatures—the size of small jet airplanes—lived. The film will be produced by Anthony Geffen and narrated by veteran filmmaker, David Attenborough. Available in 3D, 2D, 15/70 and Digital.
Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World (FT)
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Available Formats: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Digital, Planetarium
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: N3D Land Productions and Mantello Brothers Productions
Distributor: 3D Entertainment Distribution
Contact: Julien Bollee
Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World takes audiences on a wondrous adventure 200 million years back in time. Join an imaginative young woman and explore a fascinating underwater universe inhabited by larger-than-life creatures—the powerful Liopleurodon, the long-necked Elasmosaurus and the gigantic 75-ft. long Shonisaurus—which were ruling the seas before dinosaurs conquered the earth! Thanks to state-of-the-art CGI imagery, see science come alive at IMAX theaters in an entertaining way. Immerse your audience in a lost age and get ready for a face-to-face encounter with the T-Rex of the seas!