Woo’s China/Hollywood IMAX film
John Woo’s upcoming epic action film “Flying Tigers” is a joint China/Hollywood production for IMAX theaters. The story about a squadron of Chinese and volunteer American pilots who teamed up in aerial combat against the Japanese during World War II was first brought to cinema in a 1942 John Wayne movie of the same name. [...]
Hubble 3D crosses $13 mil.
The 43-minute IMAX documentary Hubble 3D, which debuted in many theaters last weekend, has now grossed $13.5 million in domestic theaters, which is $3.5 mil. more than the $10 mil. of “Piranha 3D” on its opening weekend. The catch is that “Hubble 3D” has been playing in about 50 IMAX giant screen theaters since March, [...]
IMAX expands Hubble 3D universe
The Hubble space telescope once needed a set of glasses to clear its blurry image. Now mass audiences will get a chance to put on glasses of their own to get a look at the Hubble spacecraft and its extraordinary mission and images. IMAX is tripling the number of theaters showing the 43-minute “Hubble 3D” [...]
IMAXimum Immaculate Inception
Endorsing filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s love of the IMAX experience, the giant screen theater chain with only 196 auditoriums has accounted for nearly 12% of the overall domestic box-office gross of “Inception” thus far. IMAX has grossed more than $27 million from the movie that has been one of the top summer successes with more than [...]
Another IMAX record with “Inception”
IMAX theaters accounted for a disproportionately big 12% ($7.2 mil.) of the weekend-topping $60.4 million for “Inception,” a record for a non-3D movie at IMAX venues even though the 197 IMAX theaters represented only 5% of the nearly 3,800 overall screens showing the film. Meanwhile, Universal’s 3D movie “Despicable Me” topped the $100 mil. mark [...]
IMAX invests in laser light projection
IMAX has signed an agreement to potentially invest in a laser light company developing technology that would allow IMAX to finally convert all its large format theaters from 70mm film to digital projection and significantly increase the brightness of all 3D movies. The memo of understanding with Laser Light Engines (it’s not a final agreement [...]
IMAX grows in Japan, China
A week ahead of its second quarter earnings announcement next Thursday, July 29, IMAX has had another busy week signing partnerships to build new IMAX theaters in Japan and China. In a joint venture with United Cinemas, IMAX Corp will install up to five digital IMAX theatre systems in Japan, three of which are confirmed. [...]
Avatar returns 8/27 only in 3D
You can enjoy “Avatar” at home in HiDef Blu-ray but the only way to see it again in 3D before November will be a return limited two-week theatrical re-release exclusively in about 400 3D theaters, including at least dozens of IMAX screens, beginning Aug. 27. That will also be your first chance to see eight [...]
IMAX grosses up 37% in 2Q; expansion deal
IMAX worldwide gross box-office was up 37% to $115 million in the second quarter from the $84.2 mil. in the same period last year, the company announced today. Grosses for mainstream Hollywood movies digitally remastered for IMAX during the first six months ended June 30, which included “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland” are more than [...]
IMAX adds $9 mil. to Twlight debut
IMAX theater admissions to “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” over the holiday weekend generated $9 million from only 193 theaters domestically, according to IMAX Corp. and Summit Entertainment. It’s the 17th consecutive mainstream release that has simultaneously premiered in IMAX theaters in a digitally remastered, enlarged format to open number one at the box office. The [...]
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