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August 18, 2015—Explorers, storytellers and scientists travel to the ends of the Earth and the depths of the oceans—and their discoveries reveal how even the most remote extremes have profound effects on the environment across the globe. This summer Giant Screen Films (GSF) was pleased to partner with nonprofits and elected officials to call attention to the beauty and fragility of our planet’s few remaining pristine environments. A series of events featuring filmmakers Jon Bowermaster and Luke Cresswell used GSF’s films to shine a spotlight on [...]

August 17, 2015—The National Infantry Museum’s big screen theater will close August 24 for a major conversion. When it reopens later this year, moviegoers will be treated to a state-of-the-art theater experience available nowhere else in the region. At the heart of the conversion is a new 6P Christie Laser Projection System, currently installed in only a handful of theaters nationwide. The Giant Screen Theater at the National Infantry Museum will be the first in the southeast to use laser projection. “Our visitors have enjoyed the [...]

July 30, 2015–MacGillivray Freeman Films in partnership with Brand USA is pleased to announce their next release for IMAX® and giant-screen theatres: National Parks Adventure. Presented by Expedia, Inc., the 3D film is scheduled for global release on February 12, 2016 to coincide with the centennial of the National Park Service next year.  Narrated by Academy Award® winner Robert Redford, National Parks Adventure takes audiences on the ultimate off-trail adventure into the nation's awe-inspiring great outdoors and untamed wilderness. Told from the perspective of national parks [...]

July 31, 2015—Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, founders of the percussion group STOMP and producers of giant screen films Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey, Wild Ocean, and Great White Shark, have received honorary degrees from Brighton. Read the full article from BBC News here.

Highlights Record box office of $343 million in Q2 2015 results in over a half a billion of IMAX global box office generated in the first half of the year Stellar global per screen average of $415 thousand in Q2 2015, driven by a 41% increase in domestic and 33% increase in international per screen averages compared to Q2 2014 Company increases annual installation guidance to 120 new theatres after another above target quarter of 35 new commercial installations in Q2 2015 $107.2 million of revenues [...]

July 20, 2015—IMAX and Science North in Sudbury, Ontario, have announced an agreement to install IMAX’s next-generation digital laser projection system at its IMAX® theatre. The new technology will further enhance The IMAX Experience® for the science center’s visitors. IMAX with laser represents a quantum leap forward in cinema technology—providing audiences with the sharpest, brightest, clearest and most vivid digital images ever, combined with a whole new level of immersive audio. The technology will enable Science North to deliver the full array of the highest-quality IMAX [...]

July 13, 2015—The Tennessee Aquarium and IMAX Corporation have signed an agreement to install IMAX’s next-generation digital laser projection system at the Tennessee Aquarium IMAX® 3D Theater. The new technology will enable the Aquarium to deliver a wider array of digital content and further enhance The IMAX Experience® for its visitors and students.   IMAX® with laser represents a quantum leap forward in cinema technology—providing audiences with the sharpest, brightest, clearest and most vivid digital images ever seen.   Designed from the ground up for IMAX’s [...]

July 7, 2015–BIG & Digital, LLC and Afterglow Studios, Inc. announced today that Space Next will be distributed worldwide by BIG & Digital to the network of IMAX®, giant screen, and fulldome theaters in fall 2015. Space Next, directed and produced by Luke Ployhar of Afterglow Studios, takes us on a journey of mankind's pursuit to reach the stars. From the beginning of our earliest dreams that sparked the imagination to the machines that took us there, Space Next will present the history that inspired generations [...]

June 30, 2015—National Geographic Studios announced today that three of its most recent standout releases have reached a new box office milestone—collectively they have surpassed $20 million in gross box office earnings, performing strongly in giant-screen, IMAX® and digital theaters worldwide. Leading the way is the award-winning Jerusalem, which continues to soar at the box office, recently exceeding $10 million in worldwide gross revenue. Mysteries of the Unseen World has topped $7 million in box office earnings, and Pandas: The Journey Home has brought in over [...]

June 30, 2015—IMAX Corporation today announced that it has optioned theatrical rights, among others, to author Donovan Hohn's 2011 best-selling nonfiction book Moby Duck. The story, about a ship in the North Pacific that loses a container carrying thousands of rubber duck bath toys and their mysterious journey that spans the globe, will be made into a theatrical documentary produced by IMAX; its production will be spearheaded by Drew Fellman (Born to Be Wild and Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, writer/producer on both), who will produce and [...]