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December 22, 2014—The Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) is pleased to announce the 2015 officers elected by the GSCA board of directors, as well as chairs appointed to GSCA committees.
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December 18, 2014—D3D Cinema is pleased to announced the hiring of museum industry veteran Greg Krogen as Vice President of Theater Sales and Business Development. Krogen comes to D3D with 13 years of experience creating and touring traveling exhibitions to museums, science centers, zoos, and aquariums around the world.
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December 18, 2014—3D Entertainment Distribution and N3D LAND Films are delighted to announce that D-Day: Normandy 1944 was honored with two Lumiere™ Awards–Europe from the prestigious International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society (I3D&AIS) for Best 3D Documentary and Stereography–Animated during the recent sixth 3D Stereo Media summit held in Liege, Belgium. This brings the current total to an impressive 9 awards for the film.
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December 18, 2014—K2 Films, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of K2 Communications, and Giant Screen Films have teamed up to tell the exciting story of what the next chapter of space exploration will bring both near-term and long-term. Through visually stunning imagery, and in collaboration with leading space experts,
Journey To Space showcases the exciting plans NASA and the space community are working on and the challenges they must overcome to carry out missions, once considered science fiction, and now science fact, such as landing astronauts on Mars. The film calls attention to the reality that the space program did not die with the end of the Shuttle Program in 2011. It is instead, vibrantly alive.
December 17, 2014—Craig Mince has worked at the IMAX Theater in the Indiana State Museum for 13 years, spending the last six as the theater manager. “I heard about the IMAX sales and marketing manager position through my then-girlfriend/now-wife,” Mince remembered. “I made it through the first round of interviews and was scheduled to meet the regional manager at IMAX when 9/11 occurred.” Read the full article at IndyStar.com here.
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December 16, 2014—3D Entertainment Distribution announced today that renowned oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle will narrate the upcoming giant screen film Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean, directed by Jean-Michel Cousteau and produced by Ocean Futures Society and 3D Entertainment Films. The 40-minute underwater documentary explores the ocean as never before. It is slated for a staggered release worldwide in 3D and 2D, 15-perf/70-mm film and digital formats beginning in March 2015.
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December 15, 2014—MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF) today announced that two-time Golden Globe® nominee Ewan McGregor will narrate Humpback Whales, an underwater 3D adventure documentary for IMAX and other giant screen theaters directed by two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Greg MacGillivray (The Living Sea, Dolphins, Everest). The film, presented in association with Pacific Life, will be released beginning February 13, 2015.
December 15, 2014—National Geographic Studios has acquired the global theatrical rights to the film Living in the Age of Airplanes, which takes audiences on an epic journey through 18 countries and across all 7 continents as it presents a unique perspective on how the airplane has changed the world. It will be available to 15/70 flat and dome film screens and to all digital screens when it is released worldwide on April 10, 2015.
December 15, 2014—Experienced giant screen/IMAX film production house December Media and specialist natural history filming company BioPixel are pleased to announce that they have finalized an agreement to develop and produce three 3D Giant Screen/IMAX films.
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December 4, 2014—Awarded a $1.5 M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), CADENS (Centrality of Advanced Digitally ENabled Science) will produce 12 science documentaries: three ultra-high-resolution fulldome shows designed for specialized, immersive dome theaters found in museums and planetariums, and nine high-definition programs for broadcast and online formats. The first in the series will be ‘Solar Superstorms,’ produced for fulldome theaters and rolling out in early 2015. CADENS has issued a call for participation, seeking research and data visualizations from the supercomputing, arts, science and education communities, with a deadline of Dec. 21, 2014.
Click here for further information about the project and how to participate.
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