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August 24, 2015—For the first time ever, MacGillivray Freeman Films, the leading independent producer and distributor of films for IMAX® and giant-screen theatres, has expanded into the world of television production with an 8-part half-hour series, America. The Beautiful. The series premiered August 9 on Travel Channel.   Narrated by Academy Award® winner Robert Redford, America. The Beautiful. features America’s most beloved national parks and wilderness areas and kicks off the 100-year anniversary celebration of the U.S. National Park Service that will culminate next year. America. [...]

August 24, 2015—Mike Day—senior vice president at the Science Museum of Minnesota—sat down with The Tangential at a table overlooking the museum’s lobby to talk about all things Omni, including the first phase of its conversion to an IMAX Laser Dome with digital projection. Read the full interview with Mike Day here.

August 21, 2015—The Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) is pleased to announce that delegates of the upcoming GSCA International Conference and Trade Show in San Francisco will be treated to a demonstration of IMAX’s next-generation digital laser projection system’s capabilities during the conference technical session on Friday, September 11, at the AMC Metreon IMAX Theatre. Digital new films and films in production will also be screened for attendees on IMAX’s laser system throughout the conference.   “This year’s introduction of IMAX with laser is a milestone [...]

August 18, 2015—Giant Screen Films and K2 Communications are pleased to announce that Journey to Space has surpassed $10M in international box office in the first six months of release. Launched in February, the film continues to draw large audiences at science centers, museum cinemas and aquariums with no signs of slowing down. “Journey to Space marks GSF and K2’s entree into the space film genre, and we are thrilled by the reception the film has received by both cinema programmers and audiences,” said Don Kempf, [...]

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 [...]