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FILMS IN PRODUCTION
The following films in production have been submitted for screening at the European Film Expo. Additional titles will be added to this list as they are submitted.
1570 = will be shown in 1570
Digital = will be shown in digital
FT = Final Title
WT = Working Title
Aurora (Digital, WT)
Release Date: Fall 2012
Formats Available: 2D, Digital, Dome, Fulldome
Length: 22- and 40-minute versions
Producer/Distributor: Kallisti Media
Contact: Nicholas Reed
The stunning Northern Lights have been beloved and the source of myth for thousands of years, but beneath their beauty is the larger story of the causes and effects of the Aurora. The film explains how the sun functions and how during the cycle of normal solar activities coronal mass ejections (CME) or solar flares are regularly formed. Using real images and stunning graphics, viewers follow the CME through space and view the effects on Earth in sequences of beautiful Aurora imagery. Scientists then explain how the CME creates the Aurora and how it collapses Earth's magnetosphere causing electricity to form within conductive items like power lines. Scientists show how a small CME and Earth has a wonderful light show, a large CME and our power grid collapses, and talk about ways we can be prepared for the next big solar event. The film comes with a very extensive educators guide and supplementary materials. Versions: 22-minute Fulldome; 22-minute 2K, 4K and 15/70mm; 40-minute 2k and 4K.
The Bachelor King (Digital, WT)
Release Date: 3rd quarter 2012
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: Atlantic Productions
Distributor: To be confirmed
Contact: Sias Wilson
The Bachelor King....a penguin’s tale. The story of an adolescent penguin's often comic, sometimes tragic, struggle to survive, find love, and raise a family in the wildest city on earth. Returning from a year-long fishing trip, he arrives back hoping to find a mate. But he can't believe his bad luck—there are 50% fewer females available this year. The stress is enough to make his feathers fall out. Real estate is in short supply, and living cheek by jowl with 6 million other residents, twice the population of Chicago, is complicated with all the joys, hatred and conflicts of our world.
When he finally starts a family the hooligans in the neighbourhood reveal themselves in a different light. Orcas lurk below the ocean waves; massive elephant seals control the beaches while murderous giant petrels and thieving skuas dominate the skies above. Can he survive and raise a chick to become – A King Penguin?
The Dark Knight Rises: The IMAX Experience (1570, FT)
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Formats Available: 2D, 1570, Digital
Length: TBD
Producer: Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Corporation
Contact: Thomas Wyss
Leading an all-star international cast, Oscar® winner Christian Bale (The Fighter) again plays the dual role of Bruce Wayne/Batman. The film also stars Anne Hathaway, as Selina Kyle; Tom Hardy, as Bane; Oscar® winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose), as Miranda Tate; and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as John Blake. Returning to the main cast, Oscar® winner Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules) plays Alfred; Gary Oldman is Commissioner Gordon; and Oscar® winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) reprises the role of Lucius Fox. In helming The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan is utilizing IMAX® cameras even more extensively than he did on The Dark Knight, which had marked the first time ever that a major feature film was partially shot with IMAX® cameras. The results were so spectacular that the director wanted to expand the use of the large-format cameras for this film.
Everest: Conquering Thin Air 3D (1570, WT)
Release Date: Spring 2014
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Alice Casbara-Leek
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.
Expedition Volcano (Digital, FT)
Release Date: 2013
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: Scandinature Films
Contact: Bo Landin
Expedition Volcano is the first-ever 3D giant screen story of volcanoes and specifically about Iceland: its powerful history, geological legacy and wild beauty. Iceland is the world’s volcanic laboratory, with more volcanic features than anywhere else on Earth, volcanoes erupt regularly. With volcanoes covered by glaciers the stage is set for dramatic eruptions. Jules Verne´s science fiction novel Journey to the Center of the Earth was set in Iceland and scientists entered the underground through a volcano crater. Like their fictional ancestors this film follows scientists entering the deep earth through a crater in search of evidence to why eruptions in Iceland become so violent. This is the story of the land of fire and ice, a saga of human settlement and wildlife on a landmass which is slowly being torn apart by unrelenting forces of nature. With dramatic re-enactments present day volcanism will be put in a historic perspective.
Flight of the Butterflies (Digital, FT)
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: SK Films
Contact: Amber Hawtin
Flight of the Butterflies—an awe-inspiring story of extraordinary animal endurance and human perseverance. Every winter, the remote volcanic mountains of Mexico are home to one of nature's greatest gatherings—hundreds of millions of migrating monarch butterflies. For centuries, this miracle was hidden from all but a few shepherds. The film follows the captivating story of one intrepid creature—Dana (Danaus Plexippus)—and three generations of her offspring and their perilous journey from Mexico to Canada, with the "Super Generation" travelling the farthest on the return journey to Mexico, to a tiny spot to which it has never been. Join the longest insect migration on Earth! This natural history epic is interwoven with the detective story of a determined scientist's almost 40 year search to find their elusive overwintering sites. The production team filmed over a year-long period following the actual annual migratory cycle of the butterflies.
Great White Shark (1570, WT)
Release Date: 2013
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, 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 four key aggregation points around the world: Mexico, South Africa, California, 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.
Hidden Universe (Digital, WT)
Release Date: March 2013
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, Digital, Dome
Length: 45 minutes
Producer: December Cinema Productions
Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Stephen Amezdroz
If you were given the world’s largest telescopes to use, what would you look for? Would you search the universe for alien life, marvel at the vision of cosmic explosions, study the birth and death of stars or perhaps look for the beginning of time? Join us for an astronomical experience that will change your view of our universe.
Hidden Worlds (Digital, WT)
Release Date: 2013
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: National Geographic Cinema Ventures
Contact: Mark Katz
Hidden Worlds introduces us to trail-blazing researchers who are pushing the envelope with technologies that peer with increasing clarity into these invisible realms. As our job applicant explores a fantastic laboratory in search of her interview room, hidden wonders not only become visible but explode from the giant screen in mesmerizing 3D images. The discoveries portrayed in the film are culled from those happening today in cutting-edge laboratories around the world, where existing and emerging technologies are giving science exciting new images of long-hidden worlds. The setting and story are pure entertainment, but the science is breathtakingly real.
Humpback Whales 3D (Digital, WT)
Release Date: Spring 2014
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Alice Casbara-Leek
From the clear turquoise waters of the South Pacific to Africa, Hawaii and Alaska, this ocean adventure will reveal what we know about this giant mammal and what mysteries scientists are determined to solve. More than 100,000 humpbacks live and travel off our shores. Incredibly curious, they have established a bond with man—their remarkable stewards and greatest threat. Humpback Whales 3D will be an immersive, intimate portrait of these enigmatic animals who appear life-size on the giant screen. A highly tested topic, humpback whales will splash their way onto the giant screen and sing their song for your audience.
Ice 3D (Digital, WT)
Release Date: 2013/2014
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: Scandinature Films
Contact: Bo Landin
The Earth is called the blue planet. But much of its water only exists in frozen form; as snowflakes, ice, hail, icicles, glaciers, pack ice and entire polar ice caps. Some ice is frozen solid in permafrost soils. Ice can kill and give life and it has always been an important part of the human saga. Some say our human intellect and the ascent of modern people is a direct result of how well we learned to live with ice, and survive the ice ages. In a warmer world the ice is slowly disappearing. Ice 3D is a science story built from a single snowflake to an entire polar ice cap. It’s a film that follows scientists working with ice, and even inside huge glaciers. We meet people who use ice for construction and survival—and we join the daredevils who challenge the might of the ice.
Jerusalem (1570, WT)
Release Date: 2013
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: Arcane/Cosmic Picture
Distributor: To be determined
Contact: Daniel Ferguson
Jerusalem, filmed in IMAX 3D, will showcase Jerusalem’s extraordinary historical, cultural, spiritual and artistic uniqueness through the eyes of young Jewish, Christian, Muslim and secular Jerusalemites. Audiences will experience little known aspects of daily life as well as the high points of the Jerusalem calendar, including Passover, Easter and Ramadan.
Kenya 3D: Animal Kingdom (Digital, WT)
Release Date: February 2013
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome, Fulldome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: 3D Entertainment Films
Distributor: 3D Entertainment Distribution
Contact: Francois Mantello
Kenya 3D: Animal Kingdom takes audiences on an epic journey into some of the most important animal sanctuaries on Earth, where life and death dramas play out daily. Encounter the country's famous fauna in their natural habitat, including lions, leopards, African elephants, and black rhinos. Explore the remotest areas of Kenya, from the Rift Valley's stunning giant lakes, which are home to millions of flamingos, to the Loita Hills where the annual Great Migration of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles takes place. Meet the Maasai and other local tribes and partake in their secret traditional ceremonies. Join an expert team of filmmakers in the very heart of Kenya, named "God's resting place" by its ancient peoples, on this truly unique adventure captured for the very first time in 3D and shown on the world's largest screens at IMAX theaters.
The Kingdom of Plants (Digital, WT)
Release Date: 3rd quarter 2012
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: Atlantic Productions
Contact: Sias Wilson
In this sensational giant screen film, David Attenborough reveals a whole new dimension to the lives of plants. Using pioneering 3D time-lapse and specialist close up photography, he traces them from their beginnings on land to their vital place in nature today. From our time scale to theirs, plants are exposed as dynamic creatures every bit as aggressive as animals. Flowers fluoresce and produce great clouds of otherwise-invisible scent; carnivorous plants move at break neck speeds to ensnare prey and great hordes of bats swoop into the auditorium as they negotiate forests of giant columnar cacti at night. All this takes place in a unique place; a microcosm of the plant world where some 90% of all known plant species are represented: The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. This spectacular adventure through the Kingdom of Plants is so immersive and compelling it has the capacity to amaze even the least green-fingered.
Leonardo da Vinci 3D (Digital, WT)
Release Date: January 2013
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: Camera Lucida Productions
Distributor: To be determined
Contact: Francois Bertrand
An extraordinary event happens to Leonardo da Vinci in 1516. He's 64 and leaves his country for the very first time after accepting the invitation of young King Francis I. For this journey from Rome to Amboise on horseback, he's in a company of two friends, Salaï and Melzi, and his servant, Battista. Leonardo takes with him his written works, thousands of pages, and three masterpieces, including the famous Mona Lisa. In the early 16th century, cities and countryside are very different from those we know today and crossing the Alps is quite a challenge. This perilous voyage, which not all of them will continue, will unveil, through discussions with his friends, discovery of works, sketches, drawings he has brought with him, the tumultuous life of Leonardo da Vinci, great artist of his time and still today an uncontested genius.
Lightning (Digital, WT)
Release Date: Fall 2012 (2D)
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, Digital, Dome, Fulldome
Length: TBD
Producer/Distributor: Kallisti Media
Contact: Nick Reed
Lightning is one of the most common but least understood natural phenomena. Everyone has seen it, but there is still no person on Earth who can explain why it strikes, where it strikes, and how it starts—it is one of the last great natural mysteries. Scientists explain how the more they look, the more mysterious lightning seems. The film examines not only the phenomena of lighting but how science is dynamic, active, and changing constantly and how there are still major discoveries to be made in even the most common of things. Utilizing ultra-high speed imagery, the film brings lighting to the giant screen.
One World One Ocean 3D (Digital, WT)
Release Date: Spring 2015
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer/Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Alice Casbara-Leek
One World One Ocean 3D connects us and our planet from pole to pole, from Africa to Asia to the tiny islands of the South Pacific. Traveling to every ocean, audiences will dive into each unique ecosystem. The more we discover about the ocean, the better we realize its powerful impact on and importance to all our lives. With a multi-platform release and social media programs, One World One Ocean 3D will be the largest global ocean media project ever—connecting and inspiring millions in an unprecedented media campaign to save our ocean.
Outside In (1570, Digital, FT)
Release Date: Late 2012/early 2013
Formats Available: 2D, 1570, Digital, Dome, Fulldome
Length: 44 minutes
Producer: SV2 Studios
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Stephen van Vuuren
Outside In is a non-profit giant-screen film that takes audiences on an inspiring 14 billion light-year journey of the mind, heart and spirit from the big bang to the near future via the Cassini-Huygens Mission at Saturn. Currently in production after years of development, Outside In aims for global release late 2012/early 2013. Composed entirely of still photographs using innovative visual techniques developed by the filmmaker, Outside In stretches the boundaries of the motion picture form. The film will feature powerful music by Ferry Corsten, William Orbit, Samuel Barber and melds non-narrative visual poetry & science documentary into a rich experience for audiences.
Overlord: Normandy 1944 (1570, WT)
Release Date: Fall 2013
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: N3D LAND Productions
Distributor: To be determined
Contact: Catherine and Pascal Vuong
When visiting Normandy nowadays, it's hard to imagine how these wonderful beaches running along the quiet countryside became, 70 years ago, hell on earth. D-Day itself is a well-known event, yet only a few people know exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 until August 1944, this region in Western Europe became the most important place in the world. Overlord: Normandy 1944 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 was decided, not only on D-Day but months, even years before; not only on the beaches of 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 discover how these days changed the world.
Secret Ocean (formerly titled Life in a Drop of Water, Digital, FT)
Release Date: November 2012
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, Digital, Dome, Fulldome
Length: 22 minutes
Producer/Distributor: Kallisti Media
Contact: Nicholas Reed
Beneath the seabed and beyond nearly a kilometer of rock is a recently discovered secret ocean that covers 2/3rds of the world's surface. This ocean exists within the earth's crust itself and contains more water than all the ice and glaciers on the planet, and has more water flow than all the rivers in the world combined. Within this crust live some of the simplest forms of life, which scientists suspect may contain the clues to the origin of life on earth and the secret to life elsewhere in the universe. Take a trip to the ocean floor and go far far beyond in this gigantic quest to find the smallest, most simple forms of life which may hold the secrets to the origin of life.
Space Reporters 3D: A Transmedia Adventure (Digital, WT)
Release Date: 2014
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, Digital, Dome, Fulldome, Web Videos
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: Oxbox
Distributor: La Géode
Contact: Hélène Guetary
Space Reporters—The First Giant Screen 3D-CGI Transmedia Adventure for Our Planet. The year is 2012. The place, the bicentennial Galaxies-United conference. The heroes, Stella & Sol, the Space Reporters. They’ve returned from investigating the Blue Planet, taking on human form to better complete their mission. Their last visit to Earth was during the industrial revolution. The change is startling. Man’s inventions and discoveries of the past hundred years have completely changed humanity: along with their do-it-all robot Zor, Stella and Sol are going to take their audience on an epic and perilous journey, from the mutation of the oceans to the manipulation of life, from the genetic labs to the nanoworld, from the gardens of sustainability to the new connected world…The first family-oriented animated film to spur clear questions in a complex world and open eyes to sustainability. A Transmedia international edutainment project of the third kind.
Tall Ship Battle 3D (Digital, WT)
Release Date: 2014
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, Digital, Dome
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: Deep Sea Productions/Ocean Discovery in cooperation with Scandinature Films
Producer/Distributor: Scandinature Films
Contact: Bo Landin
In 2011 new marine archeological discoveries in the Baltic Sea opened the door to knowledge about one of the biggest naval battles in human history. It pits Northern Europe’s military “super power” Sweden against an allied fleet of Danish and Dutch ships. Hundreds of ships clash in the ensuing battle. It’s a true David and Goliath story. Sweden has huge ships classed as “regal” with tremendous firepower. They are gaudily decorated, impressive, but clumsy. The Swedish crews are ill trained, unaware that the seemingly weaker enemy is going to meet them with a new, frightening tactic. During an adventurous expedition divers and deep sea explorers using high-tech survey equipment will search for clues and evidence about the ships and what really happened during the battle. Through advanced CGI and historical re-enactments the viewer will understand the magnificence, prowess and shortcomings in tall ship warfare.
War of Wars (Digital, FT)
Release Date: May 2012
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, Digital, Dome
Length: 20-minute and 40-minute versions
Producer/Distributor: Kallisti Media
Contact: Nicholas Reed
Using a collection of over 10,000 never-before-seen stereo photos from the battlefield, and the first combat film ever taken, War of Wars gives life to the past by using the voices of contemporary combat veterans to share their own stories of battle. The film centers on the Battle of the Somme, which was the largest battle in human history claiming six times the casualties of D-Day just in the first opening hours, and where the British lost more men than they did in all of WW2. War of Wars is a somber reminder of the realities of war not just on the battlefield but within the minds of those who have to experience it firsthand. It is both a historical film and a tale of contemporary issues at the same time and puts the viewer in the perspective and mind of combat veterans. Available for special 1-week limited runs for veterans/armistice day. 20-minute and 40-minute 2D & 3D 2k, 4k.
Watermelon Magic (Digital, FT)
Release Date: Spring 2013
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570, Digital, Dome
Length: 40-minute and 20-minute versions
Producer: Spring Garden Pictures
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Richard Hoffmann
International audiences will delight in this nearly wordless burst of color and music that draws inspiration from film classic The Red Balloon, enchanted by the story of young Sylvie in her magical garden. Weaving together documentary and narrative elements, Watermelon Magic chronicles a season on the family farm, as Sylvie grows a patch of watermelons to sell at market. Constructed entirely from high-resolution still photos, this film employs a dynamic style of varying shutter-burst frame rates with stunning time-lapse sequences, to captivate young and old audiences alike. We witness the elementary scientific concepts of the life cycle of plants, observing their journey from seed to flower to fruit. When harvest time arrives, Sylvie must decide if she will share her precious watermelon babies with the world.
TRAILERS
Air Racers 3D (1570, FT)
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Formats Available: 2D and 3D, 1570
Length: 40 minutes
Producer: 3D Entertainment USA and Pretend Entertainment in association with Stereoscope
Distributor: 3D Entertainment Distribution
Contact: Francois Mantello
Fly into Nevada's "Valley of Speed" for a breathtaking exploration of the fastest race in the world combined with spectacular air show entertainment: the legendary Reno National Championship Air Races. Join today's elite pilots as they fight for position, wingtip-to-wingtip, and skim 50 feet (15 m) above the ground around an oval course at twice the speed of a Nascar race. Discover this ultra-competitive world through the eyes of rookie pilot Steve Hinton Jr. as he attempts to fly his P-51 Mustang fighter plane to victory in the most highly anticipated and unpredictable race class. Learn about the history and science behind the sport, whose concept dates back to the dawn of aviation, and see top-notch aerobatic performers, including the Canadian Forces Snowbirds. With spectacular aerial photography filmed entirely in 3D and unprecedented access granted to the course, Air Racers 3D puts you in the cockpit to experience the intensity and high-speed thrills of a sports event like no other.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: An IMAX 3D Experience (1570, FT)
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Formats Available: 3D, 1570, Digital
Length: TBD
Producer: New Line Cinema/MGM
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Corporation
Contact: Thomas Wyss
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain, first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever... Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.