August 7, 2008—IMAX Corporation and DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount will release Eagle Eye: The IMAX Experience, the company's 30th DMR film, on September 26th. Following this action thriller, as previously announced, IMAX will partner with DreamWorks Animation to release Madagascar 2: The IMAX Experience on November 7, for a two-week run followed by Warner Bros. Pictures' Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: An IMAX 3D Experience on November 21. With the addition of Eagle Eye, the company expects to have eight first run DMR films in 2008 compared to five in 2007.
Looking to 2009, IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures will release the film adaptation of the graphic novel Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder, on March 6. Watchmen is Snyder's second film to be released in IMAX, the first being the highly successful 300. In addition, the company has reached agreement on material terms to release IMAX versions of Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (20th Century Fox, May 22, 2009) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount, June 26, 2009). Both films follow the collaborations between IMAX and the respective studios on the first Night at the Museum in December of 2006 and Transformers in September of 2007.
Watchmen, Night at the Museum 2, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are in addition to the company's previously announced 2009 films, Under the Sea 3D, an original IMAX film being released in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation's Monsters vs. Aliens 3D.
IMAX's announced 2010 film slate includes: Hubble 3D (working title), Warner Bros. Pictures , February 2010; How to Train Your Dragon 3D, DreamWorks Animation, March 2010; and Shrek Goes Fourth 3D, DreamWorks Animation, May 2010.
Eagle Eye, directed by D.J. Caruso, stars Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan as two strangers who become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. Realizing they are being used to further her diabolical plot, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed.
Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder, stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. In an alternate 1985 America, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. 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.
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