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April 26, 2017—GSCA is excited to announce that we have selected Museum Playbook as the agency partner to develop a marketing symposium to be held on September 29, 2017. The symposium is part of the GSCA International Conference and Trade Show on September 26-29 in Chicago. About Museum Playbook Museum Playbook is a collective of museum professionals that work to make experiences more relevant to audiences through innovative content, targeted marketing and technology. They build flexible teams tailored to specific projects to provide expertise across a [...]

April 13, 2017—Euromax, the European Association for giant screen, specialty and institutional documentary films, has announced its 2017 annual meeting film slate and program. The annual event will be hosted at Parc du Futuroscope in Poitiers, France, June 18-20, in a year that marks the major French theme park’s 30th anniversary.    An exciting film program accompanies the 2017 event, including 13 new feature films and 14 new films in production—all available from leading distribution companies, with many premiering for the very first time in Europe: [...]

April 11, 2017—IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX) and ODEON Cinemas Group, including its Nordic Cinema Group subsidiary, both wholly owned by AMC (NYSE:AMC), and the largest cinema operator in Europe, today announced they signed a binding term sheet for 25 new IMAX® theatre systems to be located throughout Europe. Under the agreement, 10 IMAX theatres have been identified and will be added to existing ODEON complexes throughout the UK/Ireland, Germany, Spain and Italy, with the locations of the remaining sites to be determined throughout Western, Southern and Northern [...]

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March 21, 2017—IMAX and The Scientific Center of Kuwait (TSCK), today announced an agreement to install IMAX’s next-generation digital laser projection system–IMAX® with Laser–at its IMAX® theatre. The laser technology, which is slated to be installed in June, will replace TSCK’s current IMAX film-based projection system and further enhance The IMAX Experience® for its visitors. The Scientific Center of Kuwait, located in Salmiya, Kuwait, serves as the Arabian Gulf’s leading institution for environmental education. The Scientific Center was the first IMAX customer in the Middle East [...]

March 9, 2017—In November 2016, at an ice-covered lake on Antarctica more than 100 kilometers away from the nearest station, a film crew from NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, together with five scientists, embarked on an extraordinary challenge. Taking three days, they bored a hole three meters across in the thick surface ice and started dives to capture the underwater world with 8K UHD cameras. In the bottom of the lake an ancient strain of bacteria is still thriving, silently producing bubbles filled with oxygen, just as [...]

March 3, 2017—Blaze Digital Cinema Works has become Blaze Cineworks, and the business has re-located from Westport, Connecticut, to Saint Petersburg, Florida. These changes were effective January 1, 2017, as Blaze began its second decade of operation. Founded by Paul Fraser in December 2006 at the dawn of the digital cinema era, Blaze is an independent consulting and project management firm specializing in business development and planning for clients in exhibition, distribution, and production. Blaze’s assignments serve practically any type of out-of-home screen—dome and flat, large [...]

March 1, 2017—Tandem Stills + Motion (TSM) and Giant Screen Films (GSF) are pleased to announce a pioneering new film that will bring the Pacific Ocean’s protected and remote national wildlife refuge islands and marine national monuments to giant screen and IMAX® cinemas around the world. Hidden Pacific (working title) captures 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 film will take audiences to these faraway, picturesque “Pearls of the Pacific” in ultra high-resolution immersive giant screen [...]

February 24, 2017—IMAX Corporation has reported fourth-quarter revenue of $106.9 million. The report also included that IMAX installed 166 new IMAX® theatres during 2016, up 22% vs. prior year, bringing the IMAX theatre network count to 1,215 screens across 75 countries; signed agreements for record 319 IMAX theatre systems during 2016, up from 138 signings in 2015; ended year with 498 theatres in backlog, up 34% vs. prior year; and opened flagship IMAX Virtual Reality Centre in Los Angeles in January of 2017, with an additional [...]

February 16, 2017—Planetarium Hamburg, established both as an astronomical and entertainment destination for northern Germany, is undergoing a massive refurbishment in preparation for its grand reopening on February 14th, 2017. To create more space, they have excavated a new lower level that will feature a new café, exhibits, a shop and new offices. Their 21-meter planetarium in the upper level of the historic water tower that comprises the facility, will reopen with an 8K resolution Digistar 6 system with 3D stereo from Evans & Sutherland. This [...]