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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 [...]

August 21, 2017—A whopping 25 movie crews will be positioned along the path of totality today to photograph the historic solar eclipse for an upcoming IMAX large format documentary about Albert Einstein, with a working title of Einstein’s Incredible Universe, from director Daniel Ferguson and production company Cosmic Picture. Read the full article from The Hollywood Reporter here. 

August 21, 2017—Filmmaker Taran Davies (Journey to Mecca, Jerusalem) has written an op-ed about the decision to tear down the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History Johnson IMAX Theater and replace it with cafeteria space: "The Johnson IMAX Theater is a national gem that fulfills the Smithsonian’s educational mission about our rare and beautiful world, and the irony now is that it, too, needs saving. Without it, there will be no other theater of any kind–let alone one with the impact of IMAX–in our nation’s [...]

August 18, 2017—Giant Screen Films is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Giant Dome Theater Consortium (GDTC) on the upcoming release of Cuba, a groundbreaking giant screen documentary set for worldwide release on May 18, 2018. The GDTC is comprised of seven leading museums across the United States: the Science Museum of Minnesota; the Cincinnati Museum Center; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; Discovery Place, Inc., Charlotte; Museum of Science, Boston; Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego; and the St. Louis Science Center. Cuba, [...]

August 2, 2017—Included below is a tribute to George Casey written by LF Examiner Editor James Hyder, who has generously allowed us to reprint it from the Summer 2017 issue. Following the LF Examiner article is a piece by Mike Day, Executive Vice President at the Science Museum of Minnesota, who shares memories of working with George on the film Ring of Fire. In Memoriam: George Casey Published in the Summer 2017 issue of LF Examiner © 2017 by Cinergetics, LLC. Veteran giant-screen filmmaker George Casey died on [...]

August 2, 2017—On Aug. 21, the total solar eclipse will cross the continental United States for the first time in 39 years, and IMAX cameras will be there to capture the historic event in all its glory. Daniel Ferguson, a documentary filmmaker with Cosmic Picture, will direct the documentary Einstein’s Incredible Universe (working title). According to Ferguson, the effort will include multiple crews in seven states, including aerial footage shot in Wyoming. Additionally, the film will include footage from specialist eclipse chasers and photographers from around the world to provide [...]

July 28, 2017—IMAX on Wednesday said it will play more digital 2D versions of Hollywood movies domestically, given a "clear preference" from consumers for 2D in North America, according to CEO Richard Gelfond. Read the full article from The Hollywood Reporter here.