Alice & Avatar: All they do is make money
Former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan once famously criticized his wide receiver Cris Carter because all he did was catch touchdown passes. The 5,500-plus voting members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences seem to be delivering the same head-scratching sentiment to movies that score the biggest box-office cash.
Showcasing once again the cavernous gulf [...]
IMAX to give 100% to Alice, Dragon
Despite all the industry concern about what to do in a few weeks when the shelf space crunch hits with the release of three consecutive 3D movies in four weeks, IMAX will not have to grapple with those decisions.
Hard as it may be to see “Avatar” go, IMAX made a commitment to Disney months ago [...]
Avatar sinks Titanic; IMAX 19%
The impossible has finally happened; “Avatar” surpassed “Titanic’s” worldwide $1.843 billion overall box-office record on Monday, Jan. 25, a record that stood for 12 years. “Avatar is now at $1.859 and still climbing fast.
And the IMAX 3D edition amassed another $6.6 million (down only 10%) in its 5th weekend in the 179 giant-screen theaters and [...]
Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D, IMAX
Catching the 3D wave, literally, is the documentary “The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D” for IMAX theaters.
On Tuesday (Jan. 26), American Suzuki Motor Corp. (ASMC) announced that the movie, which opens Feb. 22 at the California Science Center’s IMAX® Theater in Los Angeles, features nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater and Raimana Van Bastolaer surfing one [...]
Avatar 1st Globes 3D win; $116 mil. IMAX
“Avatar” continues to set new benchmarks every week, now collecting what has to be the biggest and first Golden Globe award ever presented to a 3D movie — the top GG award for best motion picture drama of the year, as well as best overall director for Cameron.
Earlier last week the movie became the first [...]
IMAX going home 3D with Sony, Discovery
On the heels of a flurry of announcements by RealD that it has partned non-exclusively with Sony, JVC and Samsung on home 3D technology, theatrical competitor IMAX Corp. has teamed up with Sony and Discovery Communications on a joint venture 24-hour 3D channel.
The announcement of the channel to launch in 2011 came only hours after [...]
Avatar biggest IMAX at $66.4 mil.
Among the many records “Avatar” has shattered on the way to crossing $350 million in North America and $1 billion worldwide in only three weekends, IMAX chairman and president Greg Foster told us today that the movie has become the top IMAX film of all-time with $66.4 mil. globally.
He says at this rate it could [...]
IMAX 3D Xmas Carol tops $20 mil.
Disney’s Digital 3D “A Christmas Carol” enjoyed a nearly 30% increase in boxoffice revenue Nov. 27-29 from the previous weekend, its fourth since the Nov. 6 premiere. It was one of only two of the top ten films in wide release to do so, the other being “The Blind Side” with a smaller 18% uptick.
The [...]
‘Carol’ & ‘It’ still singing at B.O.
The Disney-Zemeckis 3D motion-capture version of “A Christmas Carol,” playing in 3D and IMAX theaters, dropped only 26% in its second weekend to $22.3 million ($63.3 mil. in 10 days), a lesser decline and a bigger gross to date than “The Polar Express.”
“Polar,” also from Zemeckis, is widely considered not only a success and the [...]
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