April 15, 2015—Monday was the final day of shooting for MacGillivray Freeman Films' upcoming release America Wild: U.S. National Parks (working title). Read the Washington Post interview with Director of Photography Brad Ohlund here.
April 14, 2015—IMAX is pleased to announce that the National Media Museum in Bradford, England, will install IMAX’s cutting-edge digital projection system. The technology will allow the Museum to present a wider array of IMAX content, offering greater programming flexibility. The IMAX® theatre at the National Media Museum is operated in partnership with Picturehouse National Cinema Group. The theatre opened in 1983 and represents the first IMAX site in the UK. The Museum has inspired countless visitors to learn about, engage with, and create [...]
April 14, 2015—Arri is working with IMAX to develop a digital camera to support the IMAX format that would be based on the Arri 6K Alexa 65 camera system. Read about the new Arri/IMAX camera in this article from The Hollywood Reporter.
April 9, 2015—Our friends at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose demonstrate the elaborate process required to change the lamp in an IMAX projector. Watch the video at Popular Science here.
April 8, 2015—IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX) and The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), have renewed their exhibition agreement with a multi-picture deal, beginning this year and extending through 2017, that includes live-action and animated tentpole releases from Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm. As part of the agreement, IMAX will be involved in the release of multiple live-action tentpoles, along with some key animated films from Disney, underscoring IMAX's continued shift toward more flexibility in programming. Highlights of the deal include [...]
April 8, 2015—Emirates Airlines hosted a reception for the new film Living in the Age of Airplanes in its new lounge at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport and then invited guests on board one of the carrier's newest double-decker A380 for a special film preview flight over the Los Angeles area. Read the USA Today article about the event here.
April 6, 2015—A memorial event for Robert Grimm is scheduled for Saturday, May 2, at 2:00pm, at Parkside Hall, 180 Park Ave., San Jose (adjacent to the Tech Museum of Innovation). Read about his amazing life and generous philanthropy here.
March 25, 2015—This spring, National Geographic Studios presents an immersive new giant screen film experience that offers a fresh perspective on a modern-day miracle that many of us take for granted: flying. Using spectacular aerial and nature photography, Living in the Age of Airplanes carries audiences across 200,000 years of history and around the globe on an epic journey to 95 locations in 18 countries spanning seven continents to remind us how, in a single century, aviation has changed our world forever. The world premiere of [...]
March 24, 2015—It is with heavy hearts we report that Robert Grimm, patron saint of The Tech Museum of Innovation, has died. A gentle soul who was a strong advocate for the potential of giant screen films to enhance learning, Bob was always one of the first to register for GSCA events. Our sincere condolences to his family, friends, and everyone at The Tech. He will be sorely missed. Read "Bob Grimm Remembered as Heart of Los Altos" in the Los Altos Town Crier.
March 6, 2015—Astronauts on the International Space Station are about a third of the way through filming scenes for a new IMAX documentary to be released next year, the film's director revealed in a new interview. Toni Myers, the filmmaker behind Hubble 3D and IMAX's other shot-in-space giant screen movies, gave an update about her new project in a NASA interview on Wednesday (March 4). IMAX and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures announced two years ago that they were collaborating with NASA to produce a movie [...]