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February 21, 2018—IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Kristen Bell (Frozen, TV's The Good Place) will narrate the latest IMAX documentary adventure Pandas, a heartwarming global story about reintroducing captive born pandas to the wild. The film will be released in select IMAX® and IMAX® 3D theatres starting April 6, 2018. The filmmakers from the acclaimed IMAX documentaries Born to Be Wild and Island of Lemurs: Madagascar take audiences on an exciting and educational new journey for the entire family, this time [...]

February 19, 2018—America’s Musical Journey, the new 3D documentary for IMAX® and giant screen theaters, held its world premieres on Thursday, February 15, at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and Friday, February 16, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The movie opened globally on Friday, February 16, in select IMAX® and giant screen theatres with a roll out expansion planned throughout the year through the Fall of 2018 and beyond. This is the second film that MacGillivray Freeman Films has produced in association with Brand [...]

February 12, 2018—SK Films is thrilled to announce that Amazon Adventure  won the highly prestigious Best 3D Documentary Motion Picture Lumiere Award at Hollywood’s Advanced Imaging Society awards presentation in Los Angeles. The Lumiere awards honour outstanding international achievement in the creation of immersive storytelling using advanced visual technologies. “We are honoured to be singled out for our commitment the highest quality 3D films, and proud to share this achievement with our talented and passionate team,” said Jonathan Barker, CEO of SK Films and the film’s [...]

February 12, 2018—Evans and Sutherland is pleased to announce and welcome Mike Lutz as Vice President of New Business Development. His new role will build on E&S’s existing leadership in dome theater display by developing new business, creative partnerships, and unique technology opportunities. Lutz brings three decades of experience in display technology, education, and product licensing for cultural attractions including IMAX Corporation, MacGillivray Freeman Films, and Laser Fantasy International. “We’re excited about the new business possibilities Mike creates for Evans and Sutherland and its subsidiary, Spitz [...]

February 1, 2018—Cosmic Picture announced today that it has launched a new giant screen film distribution company for museum and science center theaters. Cosmic Picture Distribution LLC will distribute a range of films, including a number of giant screen educational films from the National Geographic library, including award-winning documentaries such as Sea Monsters, Extreme Weather, Mysteries of the Unseen World and its own hit Jerusalem. The move positions Cosmic Picture as an industry leader in both production and distribution as the Company looks to release a further 2-3 [...]

January 30, 2018—BBC Earth, OceanX Media, and Giant Screen Films (GSF) are proud to announce that global tech giant Microsoft has come aboard as the exclusive technology sponsor for Oceans: Our Blue Planet, releasing worldwide on March 16, 2018. Partnering with BBC Worldwide Learning, the division of BBC’s commercial arm that creates educational content, Microsoft’s digital and scholastic tools will be deployed for the first time in the museum arena. The partnership will focus on developing a range of market-tailored educational activations to support the release of Oceans: Our [...]

January 25, 2018—MacGillivray Freeman Films today announced that Academy Award®-winning actor Morgan Freeman will narrate America’s Musical Journey, the company’s newest 3D documentary for IMAX® and giant screen theatres. America’s Musical Journey, produced in association with Brand USA and presented by Expedia, will be opening in select museums and institutions beginning February 16. The film celebrates the rich cultural diversity of America as seen through the story of its music. America’s Musical Journey follows Grammy Award®-nominated singer and songwriter Aloe Blacc as he traces the roots [...]

January 24, 2018—D3D Cinema is proud to announce that Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium has selected D3D to upgrade the existing IMAX® 15/70 film-based Lozier Theater to a state-of-the-art Christie Digital 4K 3D projection system, which will be installed in March 2018. Upon reopening, the theater will be called the Lozier Giant Screen Theater.  D3D has designed a Christie 4K 3D projection system, which will be complemented by a powerful QSC 5.1 surround sound audio system, a new MDI premium giant screen, along with full alternative content and [...]

January 5, 2018—The new Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, is the largest and most technologically advanced planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, thanks to Digistar 6, a groundbreaking True8K™ display system, and a NanoSeam dome. The theater represents the state-of-the-art digital projection technology and scientific visualization from Evans & Sutherland (E&S) and seamless dome screen technology from Spitz. The True8K system projects more than 88 million pixels over the entire dome. This is the highest giant screen dome resolution in [...]

K2 Communications has announced production of two new fully funded films. Angkor—The Lost Empire of Cambodia A civilization that rose to become the envy of the world, only to disappear ... a mystery waiting to be unlocked by modern archaeologists, scientists and explorers.  Following an epic spree of religious building whose scale and ambition rivals the pyramids of Egypt, Angkor is the scene of one of the greatest vanishing acts of all time. The Khmer kingdom lasted from the 9th to the 15th centuries and at [...]