February 20, 2008--National Geographic’s Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure won the Visual Effects Society’s (VES) award for Special Venue Project at the sixth annual gala held at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre Grand Ballroom on February 10. Receiving the award were Sean Phillips, Jack Geist, Robin Aristorenas, and Mark Dubeau. The sold-out event attracted more than a thousand visual effects and animation artists, dozens of nominees, and members of the film, television, commercial, and video game industries.

February 20, 2008--Ballantyne of Omaha, Inc., a motion picture projection, digital cinema, and specialty lighting equipment and services provider, announced today that its Marcel Desrochers Inc. (MDI) subsidiary, doing business as Strong Screen Systems, has entered into a long-term supply agreement with IMAX Corporation. Under the agreement Strong Screen Systems/MDI will provide coated cinema screen sheets and structural screen frames (the key components of a cinema screen system) for use with IMAX’s proprietary giant screen digital, analog, and 3D projection systems. The agreement expands upon the two companies’ long-standing collaboration. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

February 19, 2008--IMAX Corporation announced today that The Spiderwick Chronicles, a fantasy adventure based on the best-selling series of books, opened well in IMAX theaters over the five-day opening weekend, grossing approximately $1.9 million of the film's $26.8 million total, or 7 percent of the overall box office. Nineteen of the top 20 locations in North America included an IMAX theater. The IMAX release also had a preliminary international opening on three screens, and will continue to open throughout the international IMAX theater network in the coming days and weeks.

February 14, 2008--3D Entertainment’s Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean opens February 15 at the New England Aquarium in Boston, Virginia Aquarium (Virginia Beach, VA), Texas State History Museum (Austin, TX), and Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo (Omaha, NE). The film will then roll out at both domestic and international IMAX 3D theaters throughout the year. The New England Aquarium’s Simons IMAX Theatre on Central Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, hosted the world premiere on February 13. The VIP event was hosted by Daryl Hannah, who narrates the film, and Jean-Michel Cousteau.

February 14, 2008--IMAX Corporation and Paramount Pictures announced today that The Spiderwick Chronicles, a fantasy adventure based on the best-selling series of books, will open in IMAX theaters on February 14th, 2008, beginning with advance midnight shows in select IMAX theaters on the evening of February 13. Directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday), the Kennedy/Marshall (The Sixth Sense, Jurassic Park) and Mark Canton (300) production of The Spiderwick Chronicles has been digitally re-mastered through IMAX's DMR (Digital Re-Mastering) technology.

February 11, 2007--IMAX Corporation today announced that a Panel of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce found unanimously in favor of IMAX in an arbitration against E-City Entertainment (I) PVT Limited ("E-City"), and awarded Imax $9.4 million, plus interest and costs, which IMAX believes will increase the award to in excess of $11 million in the aggregate. The arbitration, which took place in London and included three separate witness hearings and extensive legal briefing, involved an agreement under which IMAX awarded E-City rights to develop a minimum of six IMAX theatres in India. E-City subsequently claimed that the agreement was a non-binding term sheet, that the amount of damages that IMAX was seeking for lost profits was excessive and that IMAX had failed to mitigate its damages. The Panel found that the agreement was fully enforceable, that E-City had breached its obligations under that agreement and awarded IMAX all of the lost profits that it sought under the agreement.

February 11, 2008--The Swiss Museum of Transport remains by far the most-visited museum in Switzerland. In 2007, the museum enjoyed significantly boosted ticket sales for the second year running. The Swiss Museum of Transport was the destination of choice for 872,905 persons in 2007, which is 125,179 (17 percent) more than the year before. Of the 2007 total, 508,220 (previous year: 455,319) people visited the museum and 364,685 (previous year: 292,407) the IMAX theater.

February 11, 2008--Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. and IMAX Corporation have announced that the official title of their third original IMAX 3D co-production will be Under the Sea 3D. Production began last month in Papua, New Guinea, where the film crew is photographing some of the most extraordinary marine wildlife ever captured on film.

February 11, 2008--The Wildscreen Festival is accepting wildlife and environmental film submissions for the festival’s prestigious Panda Awards, dubbed the green Oscars. Entries will be welcomed until Friday March 28. Leading filmmakers from all over the world enter the competition for a chance to win the coveted Golden Panda Award.

February 11, 2008--Giant Screen Cinema Association members elected eight new members to the board of directors this week who will start their two-year term at the commencement of the European Film Expo board meeting on March 3, 2008. The new board members join 11 others. Elected this week for two years by category are the following. Production: Greg MacGillivray, MacGillivray Freeman Films, and Andy Gellis, Cinevest. Manufacturing/Suppliers: Patricia Keighley, DKP 70MM Inc., and Rick Gordon, RPG Productions. Institutional Theaters:Toby Mensforth, Smithsonian Business Ventures. Commercial Theaters: Berend Reijnhoudt, Omniversum. Distribution: Mark Katz, National Geographic Cinema Ventures, and Don Kempf, Giant Screen Films. The Board of Directors also appointed two additional directors in accordance with the bylaws: Doug King, Saint Louis Science Center, and Gordon Stalans, Tennessee Aquarium.