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Peoria Riverfront Museum Counts Milestones of Its First Year

April 26, 2013—The Peoria Riverfront Museum has brought many firsts to the riverfront since opening last October. “We’re having an impact already,” said Jim Richerson, museum president and CEO. Read the full article from the Peoria Journal Star here.

Metallica 3D Concert Film to Debut on IMAX Screens in September

April 25, 2013—In a move that illustrates the growing must-see cachet of the giant screen company, Nimród Antal’s Metallica Through The Never will be digitally re-mastered into the IMAX 3D format and released wide in North America exclusively in IMAX theaters for a one-week run starting on Sept 27. Read the full article from Screen Daily here.

Dome Experiences! LASERIUM Returns, "Butterflies" Soars, and McDonnell Planetarium Turns 50

April 18, 2013—Judith Rubin of InPark Magazine provides an in-depth report on the 50th anniversary celebration at the James S. McDonnell Planetarium at the Saint Louis Science Center, the return of LASERIUM, the dome-customized version of Flight of the Butterflies, and the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw. Read the full article here.

How IMAX Pulled Space Flight Down to Earth

April 9, 2013—Nearly 30 years ago, moviegoers got an unprecedented look into the lives of the space shuttle astronauts orbiting 280 miles above the Earth. And they witnessed it in extraordinary dimensions—on a five story-tall screen in booming surround sound. Read the full article from Smithsonian Magazine here.

IMAX Theatre at Portage Place Closes This Week

March 25, 2013—The IMAX Theatre at Portage Place will go out the way it came in, screening the made-in-Manitoba film Heartland on its final day of operation on Sunday, March 31. Read the full article from the Winnipeg Free Press here.

Melbourne and Sydney IMAX Theaters Reopen After Conversion to Digital

March 11, 2013—IMAX theaters in Melbourne and Sydney re-opened last Thursday after a month out of action so that digital projection could be installed for the first time (Melbourne also got a new screen and sound system). Read the full article from the Sydney Morning Herald here.

Penguins 3D to Be Released Theatrically May 24th

March 6, 2013—Originally known as The Bachelor King when broadcast on Sky 3D last year, it is the second David Attenborough/Atlantic Productions 3D collaboration after Flying Monsters 3D. The Galileo Digital Entertainment co-production was filmed over a five month period in the sub-Antartic island of South Georgia, and follows the lives of King Penguins. Read the full article from 3D Focus here.

IMAX China to Stop Signing Exclusive One-Film Deals

March 6, 2013—Chinese moviegoers will soon be provided with a choice at the country’s Imax cinemas, as the chain plans to end its practice of showing only one film at a time on all its screens in the country. Read the full article from The Hollywood Reporter here.

Want to Save Movies? Look at IMAX

March 5, 2013—Americans are losing the taste for going to the movies. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, movie admissions in the U.S. and Canada dropped 18 percent between 2002 and 2011. But not at IMAX, which builds giant-screen movie systems and remasters films to be shown in those venues. Just before the Oscars, IMAX reported that its 2012 revenues had increased a smart 20 percent to $284.3 million, and that it had installed 125 new theater systems last year. Read the full article from Newsweek here.

Orlando Science Center, National Geographic Form Partnership

March 1, 2013—The Orlando Science Center has formed a partnership with National Geographic Cinema Ventures that’s tied to the museum’s newly renovated theater. In the near future, that space will be known as the Digital Adventure Theater, A National Geographic Experience. Read the full article from the Orlando Sentinel here.

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