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September 26, 2017—The Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2017 Achievement Awards, which recognize excellence in giant screen filmmaking, marketing, and lifelong learning. The awards were announced the evening of Tuesday, September 26, at the GSCA 2017 International Conference and Trade Show in Chicago during a ceremony at the DoubleTree Hilton-Magnificent Mile. IMAX Corporation, sponsor of the awards gala, presented the IMAX Maximum Image Awards during the ceremony as well. The following awards were presented by GSCA: Outstanding Achievement Award [...]

September 25, 2017—Evans & Sutherland (ESCC) is proud to announce that they have concluded a distribution deal with The Stephen Low Company to make films from their library available to E&S digital dome theaters and AEOS Theaters worldwide. "Stephen Low is a master filmmaker for the giant screen, and we have been in discussion with him about bringing his work to digital dome theaters for some time. Stephen attended our shootout between 8K digital dome and 1570 film in Richmond, Virginia in 2014, and our plans [...]

September 22, 2017—Evans & Sutherland (ESCC) introduces AEOS Theaters, a groundbreaking new alliance between E&S, Spitz, and Sonics2. The companies have joined forces to create a new generation of ultra-high resolution giant screen cinema experiences for immersive domes and giant flat screen theaters.   AEOS Theaters reimagine the immersive cinema experience using ultra-high resolution digital imagery, the highest-fidelity sound, and beautifully seamless screens for an audience experience that’s just this side of reality. Using a seamlessly blended array of laser or lamp-based projectors, AEOS allows domes [...]

September 22, 2017—Tandem Stills + Motion (TSM) and Giant Screen Films (GSF) are pleased to announce that principal photography for Hidden Pacific has wrapped after the final shooting assignment: filming dramatic volcanic footage in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii. Hidden Pacific will transport audiences to the Pacific Ocean’s remote national wildlife refuge islands and marine national monuments, capturing the beauty of the ocean and these emerald islets, the conservation efforts to restore their ecosystems, and the diversity of life on both land and reef. The [...]

September 20, 2017—BIG & Digital, LLC and Reef Distribution, of Munich Germany, have announced that The Secrets of Gravity—in the Footsteps of Albert Einstein and the classic and digitally remastered Kaluoka’hina, the Enchanted Reef will be distributed in the Americas to the network of giant screen and fulldome theaters by BIG & Digital.   Written and directed by Peter Popp of Softmachine Immersive Productions, The Secrets of Gravity is a new award-winning animated fulldome Show being released to digital flat screen theaters on October 1 and [...]

September 11, 2017—D3D Cinema is pleased to announce that its pioneering giant dome laser projection technology has been selected for integration at the new Papalote Museo del Niño, Iztapalapa in Mexico City. The museum is presently under construction and on target to premiere in summer 2018. The facilities include a new giant screen cinema dome, the first of its kind to be built in the Western Hemisphere in over two decades. The new dome will feature D3D’s Laser CineDome technology, a revolutionary laser-illuminated projection platform powered [...]

September 6, 2017—The Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) is pleased to announce it will bestow a posthumous Outstanding Achievement Award to George Casey, who died on June 3, 2017, at the age of 84. The award will be presented at the GSCA Achievement Awards on the evening of Tuesday, September 26, at the DoubleTree Magnificent Mile in Chicago. The award ceremony is held as part of the annual GSCA International Conference and Trade Show. George Casey, producer, director, and writer of some of the most beloved [...]

August 30, 2017—D3D Cinema (D3D) is pleased to announce that it is expanding staff and doubling its Philadelphia-area office footprint in preparation for and response to upcoming Laser CineDome projection upgrades, Cinéfolio’s museum network growth, expansion of D3D Post Services and the accelerating deployment of the new Birdly VR product.   New hires include the addition of Richard Garbett in the role of Senior Applications Engineer, bringing over 25 years of cinema and display technology engineering experience to D3D.  Richard spent seven years with MasterImage 3D [...]

August 22, 2017—From the Washington Post: "At the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, visitors can go on an adventure through the Amazon. They can walk the purple mountain majesties of America’s national parks, and they can even travel back to the Cretaceous period and see dinosaurs come to life. That’s all thanks to the museum’s Samuel C. Johnson Imax Theater. On Oct. 1, after 18 years, it will all shut down...In short, it seems the Museum of Natural History just isn’t that interested in Imax. And [...]

August 21, 2017—The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation held the grand opening of the new, state-of-the-art giant-screen Medal of Honor Theater at the National Museum of the Marine Corps and premiered their new signature film, We, The Marines, on July 22. The theater and film opened on July 23 at 10:00am.   "Opening the Medal of Honor Theater is a significant benchmark as we march toward completion of the National Museum of the Marine Corps" said Lt. Gen. Robert R. Blackman, Jr., president and CEO of the [...]