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June 10, 2019—Canada’s leading production, distribution and digital company Sinking Ship Entertainment (SSE) is thrilled to announce its expansion into museum and institutional sales. Joining the team is industry expert Jennifer Lee Hackett, who will lead the sale of Dino Dana: The Movie and its companion AR and VR experiences to museums, science centres and the attraction market.  “Sinking Ship is very excited to embark on this new endeavor, and Jennifer’s experience is the perfect pedigree to bring the family-friendly Dino Dana: The Movie to audiences [...]

May 29, 2019—BBC Studios are excited to announce that SK Films has been appointed as the theatrical distributor for Antarctica: Into the Unknown, BBC Earth’s next IMAX®/giant screen film produced by the world-renowned BBC Studios Natural History Unit. SK Films will distribute Antarctica in all formats. “SK Films has an incredible track record of producing and distributing high-quality giant screen films. They will bring a host of new ideas to this project, and we look forward to working with Wendy and her talented and energetic team [...]

May 29, 2019—Giant Screen Films (GSF) is pleased to announce Dinosaurs of Antarctica, a large-format film launching globally into museum and IMAX® cinemas in February 2020. The first original large-format dinosaur film in over a decade, Dinosaurs of Antarctica will introduce audiences to the amazing and bizarre prehistoric creatures that inhabited Antarctic forests and swamps hundreds of millions of years ago. With major support provided by the National Science Foundation, the film follows a team of paleoecologists on a quest to understand the southern continent’s profound [...]

May 15, 2019—Evans & Sutherland (E&S) is proud to announce Estelle Pacalon as the Show Distribution and Sales Manager overseeing distribution of its extensive library of fulldome shows, as well as projects in South America. Estelle will be based out of Europe and is the second addition to the E&S sales team this year. E&S is committed to serving its customers by bringing together passionate, long-time industry experts with a reach across the globe. Estelle Pacalon holds a master’s degree from the Clermont Graduate School of [...]

May 10, 2019—MacGillivray Freeman Films and CNN Films are proud to announce the release of Todd Douglas Miller’s Apollo 11: First Steps Edition, an exclusive giant screen documentary opening in select science centers and museum-based IMAX® and giant screen theaters starting May 17, 2019. Produced by Statement Pictures in partnership with CNN Films and distributed by MacGillivray Freeman Films, Apollo 11: First Steps Edition is a special giant screen version of the critically-acclaimed theatrical documentary Apollo 11 released earlier this year. Apollo 11: First Steps Edition [...]

May 6, 2019—Great Barrier Reef was recently awarded “Best Creativity Film” in the Science and Technology category of the Beijing International Film Festival, which is held at the China Science and Technology Museum. The film was produced by December Media, which also handles Asia/Pacific distribution, and is globally distributed by MacGillivray Freeman Films. The award was presented at the opening night dinner in Beijing. Mark Bretherton, Head of Distribution Giant Screen Cinema at December Media, attended the festival and was there to receive the award from [...]

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May 2, 2019—Evans & Sutherland (E&S), the inventor of computer graphics and the digital dome, announces DomeX: a revolution in dome cinema display technology. DomeX incorporates LEDs directly into the dome surface, turning it into an active video display that vastly outperforms projector-based solutions in contrast, brightness, reliability, and lifespan. The extreme contrast and brightness of the DomeX LED Dome cannot be achieved with even the best and brightest projection equipment,” explains Dennis Elkins, E&S Director of Advanced Displays. “A black, matte finished, dome emitting the [...]

April 18, 2019—In the new documentary Apollo 11, director Todd Douglas Miller uses rarely-seen archival footage to make the lunar mission feel vivid, tense, and recent. The Smithsonian's Air & Space magazine interviews Miller for a behind-the-scenes look at how the film was made. Click here to read the interview.

April 12, 2019—IMAX Corporation and Lochmann Filmtheaterbetriebe, a leading German Independent cinema operator, have announced an agreement for a new IMAX® theatre to be located in a new addition in the Traumpalast Leonberg multiplex in Leonberg, Germany. The new theatre, which is expected to open in 2020, will feature IMAX's groundbreaking laser experience and an estimated 38-meter screen—marking the largest IMAX screen in the world.   "Global demand for The IMAX Experience® is stronger than ever as shown by our recent performance and growth in Germany," [...]