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December 3, 2014—Christie® and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. are pleased to announce that Christie will co-develop, supply, install, and service proprietary Dolby Vision™ projection systems for Dolby Cinema™, a branded premium cinema offering for exhibitors and moviegoers that delivers the total cinema experience. Christie’s projection technologies will ensure that Dolby Cinema combines a spectacular image with immersive sound and inspired design, to make every visit a completely captivating cinematic event. Dolby Cinema will feature the Dolby Vision projection system, which uses state-of-the-art optics and image processing to [...]

December 3, 2014—Dolby, the company whose name is synonymous with sound, is looking to make some noise in the world of images. The brand is set to launch Dolby Cinema, a premium, large-format theater experience that could challenge large-format leader IMAX. Click here to read the full article from The Hollywood Reporter.

November 25, 2014—The winners of the 2014 BLUE Carpet Film Awards were announced November 7 at The Mahaffey Theatre in Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. Films were selected as part of the BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit (BLUE) as being the top cinematic works for ocean conservation and awareness. Three giant screen documentaries took home prizes at the event. Winning Documentary Feature Film was Journey to the South Pacific, produced by IMAX Corporation, MacGillivray Freeman Films, One World One Ocean Foundation, and MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational [...]

November 24, 2014—IMERSA will honor Ian McLennan for lifetime achievement at its annual Summit in Denver, Feb 25-March 1, 2015. Read the full article from InPark Magazine here.  

November 24, 2014—COSI in Columbus, Ohio, has reopened the state's largest planetarium, which had been closed since 2004 because of budget shortfalls. COSI chose a Digistar 5 digital Fulldome system from Evans and Sutherland for the new theater, which has 200 seats under a 60-foot diameter dome. Read more about COSI's new planetarium at www.cleveland.com.  

November 21, 2014—The IMAX/Kodak connection first was tied in October 2011, when IMAX signed a licensing agreement giving it exclusive rights to more than 50 Kodak patents covering laser projection technology. IMAX also hired roughly 30 Kodak scientists and engineers who now work at IMAX's Rochester R&D site. Read the USAToday.com article about the IMAX laser projector here.  

November 21, 2014—A Long Island, N.Y.-native, Griesmer spent more than two decades at museums in Norwalk and West Hartford, Conn., before accepting a job at the Virginia Air and Space Center in September. The initial attraction, he said, was to the museum's mission and the financial support it received in recent years from the city and from NASA. Read the dailypress.com article about Robert Griesmer's new role at the Virginia Air and Space Center here.

November 20, 2014—Gizmodo goes behind the scenes at the IMAX at Lincoln Center in New York City. Read the full article here.  

November 20, 2014—When it comes to Interstellar, the spaceship Endurance isn't the only thing going where no one has gone before—so is the movie itself. At 2 hours, 47 minutes, and 7 seconds, Interstellar is the longest IMAX presentation ever. Read the Wired article about the size of the Interstellar print here.