May 17, 2012—IMAX Corporation announced today that one of the industry's leading digital dome experts, Steen Iversen, will join the IMAX Digital Dome Project. Iversen's wealth of knowledge and experience will assist the IMAX team as the IMAX dome theater community transitions to laser digital projection systems.
May 11, 2012—The "Best IMAX® Booth" award is an IMAX Maximum Image Award® that recognizes an outstanding IMAX projection booth. The award honours an IMAX theatre, their projection and booth staff for their commitment to presentation excellence. Your theatre could be next.
May 9, 2012—IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Rock of Ages, based on the hit Broadway musical, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX® format and released for a limited domestic engagement in select IMAX® theaters, day-and-date with the film's release on June 15, 2012. Directed by Adam Shankman, the film stars Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Mary J. Blige, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Alec Baldwin.
May 7, 2012—IMAX Corporation, Marvel Studios and The Walt Disney Studios today announced that the epic Super Hero adventure Marvel's The Avengers has surpassed IMAX's domestic opening weekend box office record by generating $15.3 million of the film's record-setting domestic gross of more than $200 million, resulting in an IMAX per-screen average of approximately $56,000 in 275 digital IMAX® theaters.
May 7, 2012—IMAX Corporation, in partnership with Indomina Releasing (Indomina), today announced the release of Bona Film Group's blockbuster Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, starring Jet Li, for an exclusive, limited engagement across North America in September in the immersive IMAX® 3D format.
May 4, 2012—IMAX Corporation, Marvel Studios and The Walt Disney Studios have announced that the epic Super Hero adventure Marvel's The Avengers will be released in the immersive IMAX® 3D format in 451 digital theaters worldwide. Domestically, the film will be released in 275 theaters beginning Friday, May 4.
April 27, 2012—IMAX Corporation today reported first quarter 2012 revenues of $55.6 million, adjusted EBITDA as calculated in accordance with the company's Credit Facility of $16.4 million, adjusted net income of $4.0 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, and reported net income of $2.6 million, or $0.04 per diluted share. In the first quarter of 2012, the company incurred a charge of $0.7 million to enable certain theaters to play movies, such as The Dark Knight Rises, in either digital or analog format. For reconciliations of adjusted net income to reported net income and for the definition of adjusted EBITDA, please see the tables at the end of this press release.
April 25, 2012—Christie Duo™ combined with the new RealD XL-DP Cinema System today to project Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Sneak Peek” of The Hobbit in 3D, presented at High Frame Rates (HFR) of 48 frames per second, achieving an unprecedented combination of uniformity and brightness. Christie®, a global visual technology company, and RealD, a leading global licensor of 3D technologies, powered today’s major studio presentation in the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
April 23, 2012—RealD Inc., a leading global licensor of 3D technologies, announced today that the company has surpassed 20,000 RealD 3D-equipped screens at motion picture theatres worldwide. The industry’s most widely used 3D cinema technology, as of the quarter ended March 23, 2012, RealD 3D was available on approximately 20,200 screens at approximately 5,100 locations globally including 11,700 screens in approximately 2,600 domestic locations and approximately 8,500 screens in approximately 2,500 international locations. This represents a 35% increase in the company’s installed base in the last 12 months and a 3% increase during the quarter ended March 23, 2012. To date, approximately 725 million moviegoers around the world have experienced a feature film in RealD 3D.
April 20, 2012—IMAX Corporation and Lionsgate today announced that due to overwhelming demand, The Hunger Games will return to more than 100 IMAX® digital theaters across North America on April 27. The film will play for a one-week special return engagement through May 3.