IMAX NEWS

The Alps - A Story of Extraordinary Courage

Monday, March 30 by Julie Brown

Due to start on 5 June, The Alps is the latest giant screen adventure from the makers of the acclaimed IMAX film Everest.

In the thin air above Switzerland, on the sheer rock-and-ice wall known as the Eiger, an American climber is about to embark on the most perilous and meaningful ascent he has ever undertaken: an attempt to scale the legendary mountain that took his renowned father's life.

"Against a backdrop of overwhelming natural beauty, THE ALPS is a true-life story of extraordinary courage. It's the intensely personal journey of a man who has every reason not to climb the deadly Eiger North Face, yet climb it he must" says Stephen Judson, director, co-writer and editor of THE ALPS.

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Star Trek on the Big Screen

Monday, March 30 by Julie Brown

Star Trek will be beaming onto the IMAX Big Screen in May this year!

From director J.J. Abrams ("Mission: Impossible III," "Lost" and "Alias"), producers Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk and screenwriters Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman ("TRANSFORMERS," "MI: III") comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, "Star Trek," featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no one has gone before.

Featuring the original main characters played by a new cast, in a plot that tells the ‘backstories’ of Kirk and Spock, before they unite aboard the USS Enterprise.

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Monsters vs Aliens coming at you... InTru™ 3D

Monday, March 30 by Julie Brown

As the television industry continues to catch up to movies with technological innovation (larger flat screens, HD, Blu-Ray), it’s now time for movies to take a larger step forward. And according to Jeffrey Katzenberg, 3D is the way to do just that.

“Monsters vs. Aliens” represents a first for the studio…the first film totally authored in the 3D format—and not just any 3D format. InTru™ 3D combines DreamWorks Animation’s state-of-the-art, proprietary authoring tools with the latest Intel technology, allowing artists to tell a more compelling story and give filmgoers a more exciting, immersive 3D movie experience. The ongoing use of InTru™ 3D (from “Monsters vs. Aliens” forward) is not just something employed by DreamWorks, but rather a mature, enhanced medium that enables filmmakers a better way to tell their stories—in an entirely new and innovative manner.

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Monsters vs Aliens - In a Galaxy very much like our own...

Monday, March 30 by Julie Brown

For centuries, tales of monsters, creatures and otherworldly beings have delighted, entertained, terrified, and intrigued people of every culture throughout the world. The works of literary masters passed down through the ages eventually made their way to Hollywood and so was born the “creature feature” and, eventually, the science-fiction flick. In many a sci-fi movie or television series of the 1950s and ‘60s, the genesis of the tale often began with the interception of a strange signal beamed from a planet in another galaxy, usually underscored by the requisite spooky organ music. Aliens would then arrive, and either wallop or teach Earth’s inhabitants a thing or two about getting along in the universe.

The tale of “Monsters vs. Aliens,” however, originates from a few very earthbound sources—behind the walls of the Glendale, California campus of DreamWorks Animation with CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and two veteran feature film directors named Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon.

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