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IMAX Licenses Exclusive Right to Kodak's Next-Generation Laser Projection Technology

October 17, 2011--IMAX Corporation and Eastman Kodak Company announced today a relationship that will broaden the application of digital cinema technologies in theaters and enhance the consumer's movie-going experience. The companies announced that IMAX has licensed from Kodak certain exclusive rights in the digital cinema field to a portfolio of more than 50 patent families covering fundamental laser projection technology.

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MacGillivray Freeman Films Director Launches One World One Ocean Campaign

October 14, 2011--Greg MacGillivray, Academy Award-nominated producer/director and president of MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF), the world’s best-selling independent producer of films for IMAX® Theatres, has announced the official launch of One World One Ocean (OWOO), a multi-year, multi-platform nonprofit campaign that will harness the power of film, television and new media to generate greater global awareness of the ocean’s importance to society and spark a global movement to restore a healthy ocean.

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Dr. Emlyn Koster Appointed President and CEO of the Institute for Learning Innovation in Maryland

October 10, 2011--The 25-year old nonprofit Institute for Learning Innovation (www.ilinet.org) has concluded a nationwide executive search with the appointment of Dr. Emlyn Koster as its new President and CEO. ILI advances the philosophy and practice of informal education, the abundant form of learning that arises from experiences at times and places outside of formal education.

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National Geographic Takes Home 4 Awards at Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

October 7, 2011--National Geographic Cinema Ventures (NGCV) received four awards at this year’s Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, one of the world’s top competitions for wildlife and environmental film and television production. Flying Monsters 3D, a new giant-screen and digital 3D film produced by Atlantic Productions in association with Sky 3D and distributed by NGCV, took home the honors for Best 3D Film. The Last Lions, a feature-length documentary produced and distributed by NGCV and directed by National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert, received awards for Best Theatrical Film, Best Music and Best Editing.

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Sea Rex 3D Wins Best Earth Sciences Program Award at Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

October 7, 2011--3D Entertainment Distribution is pleased to announce that its latest IMAX theater release, Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World, won the award for Best Earth Sciences Program yesterday at the prestigious 2011 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. The biennial 6-day conference considered by many to be the "Oscars of Wildlife Filmmaking" is an unmatched international industry event drawing international leaders in science, conservation, broadcasting and media.

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Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol to Have Early IMAX Previews Beginning Dec. 16

October 5, 2011--IMAX Corporation and Paramount Pictures today announced that Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol will begin previews in IMAX beginning Friday, Dec. 16, and playing through the film's run at the box office, which begins worldwide on Dec. 21, 2011. This marks the first time a domestic feature release has been released early in IMAX® theaters and reinforces the event nature of this highly-anticipated film. Directed by Academy Award(®-winner Brad Bird, Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Paula Patton.

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D3D Cinema Announces Installation in Birmingham, U.K.

October 5, 2011--D3D Cinema is pleased to announce that its first U.K. giant screen digital 3D conversion at Millennium Point in Birmingham is underway. The former IMAX theater is set to become the Midlands largest, independent digital 3D cinema. Outfitted with twin state-of-the-art Barco 4K digital projectors paired with industry-leading Dolby Digital 3D technology, the new system will allow Millennium Point to show a wider selection of 3D feature films as well as a larger variety of 2D movies and documentaries. Millennium Point will reopen the theater at the end of October with The Adventures of Tintin 3D.

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Real Steel to Open in 370 IMAX Theaters Beginning October 7

October 5, 2011-- IMAX Corporation, DreamWorks Studios and The Walt Disney Studios have announced that the action drama Real Steel will open in 270 domestic IMAX® theaters Friday, October 7, 2011, simultaneous with its North American wide release. The film will also open in at least 100 IMAX theaters internationally, with 62 theaters releasing day-and-date. Additional international playdates are expected to be confirmed in the coming weeks.

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IMAX Signs Revenue Share Deal in China with CJ CGV Holdings, Ltd.

October 4, 2011--IMAX Corporation today announced that CJ CGV HOLDINGS, LTD, a subsidiary of Korean media conglomerate CJ CGV Co. Ltd., has signed a revenue share agreement to add 15 new IMAX® digital theater systems in the People's Republic of China.

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Paul Hoffman Named Liberty Science Center President and CEO

October 3, 2011--The board of trustees today announced the appointment of Paul Hoffman as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Science Center. Mr. Hoffman is the institution’s fifth president since its 1993 opening.

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