February 11, 2010--The Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) announced the results of its 2010 board of directors election today. Eleven new directors—eight elected and three appointed—will begin serving their two-year terms at the upcoming GSCA Film Expo being held in Los Angeles, CA, on February 23-24. The new directors representing the five GSCA membership categories, are:
February 8, 2010--MacGillivray Freeman Films announced today that Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren is the narrator for Arabia, a timely new 3D giant screen adventure opening in select IMAX and IMAX 3D theaters starting February 12.
February 3, 2010--IMAX Corporation and Rising Star Media, one of Russia's leading international exhibitors, today announced an agreement to expand their relationship by installing two more digital IMAX theater systems by spring 2010. The deal follows a highly successful run of IMAX titles at the exhibitor's two existing IMAX locations. Under terms of the deal, Rising Star will add a new digital IMAX location in Moscow and upgrade its existing film-based IMAX location in St. Petersburg with an IMAX digital projection system.
February 2, 2010--American Suzuki Motor Corp. has announced details for the world premiere of The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D film for IMAX theaters, which features nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater and Raimana Van Bastolaer surfing one of the world's most challenging waves, Tahiti's Teahupo'o (pronounced Tee-ah-hoo-poh-oh). On February 8, invited guests will be treated to a private screening of The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D and a Tahitian-style after-party, with live performances by Mason Jennings and DJ Chris Holmes at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
February 2, 2010--3D Entertainment Distribution is pleased to announce it will launch its new underwater film from the dinosaur age, Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World, beginning May 7, 2010. Available both in 3D and 2D at select IMAX theaters, this new edutainment and story-driven film will have a staggered IMAX theatrical release across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
February 1, 2010--IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that James Cameron's Avatar, which has received Golden Globe awards for Best Picture and Best Director, has passed the $150 million mark at IMAX theaters worldwide during the weekend from Friday, January 29, 2010, through Sunday, January 31, 2010.
January 19, 2010--IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that James Cameron's Avatar, which just received Golden Globe awards for Best Picture and Best Director, continued to deliver strong box office results in IMAX theaters during the four-day weekend from Friday, January 15, through Monday, January 18. The IMAX release grossed $9.6 million from 179 IMAX theaters domestically, representing 17.7 percent of the film's total domestic four-day weekend gross of $55 million on less than 2 percent of the screens. Internationally, the IMAX release grossed $5.6 million from 83 IMAX theaters, bringing the four-day weekend's global IMAX total to approximately $15.3 million and the film's overall IMAX global total to more than $116.4 million.
January 19, 2010--Monday evening, January 11, 2010, Edwin Abbott’s beloved mathematical adventure novel, Flatland, was prominently featured as part of a major storyline on the top-rated CBS Television comedy, The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon, one of the key characters in the series, declares Flatland to be one of his choice destinations. “Sometimes, when I feel stifled and want a change of scenery, I use my imagination. One of my favorite places to visit is the two-dimensional world described in Edwin Abbott’s mathematical fantasy, Flatland . . . I am now a hexagon in two-dimensional space and can only perceive the edges of other objects. . .” RPG Productions (Burbank, California), and producing partners, Objects In Motion Pictures (Charlotte, North Carolina), are currently in production of a 3D animated version of the classic Abbott novella. Flatland: Search for the Third Dimension is designed for both Giant Screen cinemas and 3D Digital venues.
January 18, 2010--BIG & Digital, LLC and Foxfire Interactive Corporation announced today that Freefall: Exploring the Extremes of Gravity (working title), will be distributed worldwide by BIG & Digital to the network of IMAX and Giant Screen Theaters. The film is being produced by Foxfire Interactive and is expected to release in 2013.
January 14, 2010--IMAX Corporation, Marvel Entertainment, and Paramount Pictures today announced that Iron Man 2, directed by Jon Favreau and starring Robert Downey, Jr., will be released to digital IMAX theaters simultaneously with the film's worldwide release on May 7, 2010. Iron Man 2, the sequel to Marvel's Iron Man, will be distributed by Paramount Pictures.