February 2, 2012—The Duluth Omnimax Theater is getting a makeover. In the next few months, the Omnimax, which closed almost a year ago, will be converted into a plush, state-of-the-art UltraScreen movie theater that should open in time for the summer movie season. Read the full article from the Duluth News Tribune here.

February 2, 2012—IMAX, the giant theater company, has agreed to pay $12 million to settle an investor class action lawsuit alleging it made material misrepresentations and omissions regarding revenue recognition. Read the full article from The Hollywood Reporter here.

February 2, 2012—Ian McLennan, director of Ontario Place in the 1970s, comments on its closure. Read the full article from InPark Magazine here.

February 1, 2012—Ontario Place is about to meet its future: the provincial government announced this morning that most facilities would be shut down, in anticipation of a major redevelopment of the site in time for Canada's sesquicentennial in 2017. Read the full article from Torontoist here.

January 30, 2012—Top directors like James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Werner Herzog and Martin Scorsese are among those making a big impact by filming in 3D. Based on some preview clips from an upcoming IMAX 3D film, shared with attendees at the Advertising Week conference in Toronto, better add the name Jonathan Barker, too. Read the full article from Mediacaster here.

January 27, 2012—For the IMAX Corporation, the future is brighter, larger and in 3D. The company is developing prototypes of new laser technologies that will allow for drastically larger and brighter screens by 2013. Read the full article from the New York Times here.

January 23, 2012—Sources tell Crain's that Citizens Bank of Flint is demanding the Detroit Science Center board bring in liquidators so that the bank can recoup some portion of the money owed to it by the science center through the sale of its contents. Read the full article from Crain's Detroit Business here.

January 19, 2012— Qube Cinema made history at the Moody Gardens Digital Cinema Symposium last week delivering a high bit-rate 4K stereoscopic DCP through two Barco projectors. Presented to a live audience at the Moody Gardens 80’ by 60’ Giant Screen in Galveston, TX, the demonstration used a standard Qube XP-I server paired with Qube Xi 4K Integrated Media Blocks (IMBs) installed in two Barco DP4K-32B projectors. Read the full article from DCinema Today here.

January 19, 2012—Eastman Kodak Co, the photography icon that invented the hand-held camera and helped bring the world the first pictures from the moon, has filed for bankruptcy protection, capping a prolonged plunge for one of America's best-known companies. Read the full article from Reuters here.

January 17, 2012—Space may be the final frontier, but it's also turning into a big junkyard. With bits of rockets, satellites and other leftovers from more than 50 years of spaceflight surrounding the Earth for thousands of miles in all directions, the space junk problem is more than just academic. And a new film, Space Junk 3D, is opening in IMAX and 2D digital theaters to spread awareness of the orbital debris threat to the public. Read the full article from space.com here.