Later he built Embassy Suites and Marriotts, and invested in IMAX theaters and riverboat gambling.
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Abrams shot portions of this on IMAX film, and those sequences are glorious to behold.
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Consequently the theater operators are more excited about the IMAX option and the footprint grows exponetially.
The IMAX film "Coral Reef Adventure" based their shooting locations on Reefs at Risk information.
The current crisis is a sort of super-sized, IMAX version of a depressingly familiar horror film.
In a first for a Lions Gate film, "The Hunger Games" opened on Imax Corp.
You have the IMAX Theatre, the Guinness World Records Museum, Ripley's Believe It or Not!
It is modeled after the private and relatively small screening room IMAX built in Santa Monica, Calif.
Even with a private IMAX theater, customers can't watch IMAX movies the same day they hit theaters.
On Aug. 21, thousands of fans crammed into Imax theaters around the country to watch an ad.
The screens are smaller than the massive, standalone Imax theaters that are often found next to museums.
The four-storey concrete and glass Imax was built 15 years ago, but was not a commercial success.
The film has one more week in IMAX theaters before it is replaced by James Cameron's Avatar.
It used to be that Imax meant seeing a vaguely educational movie in a huge auditorium connected to a museum.
Greenfield says 3-D ticket prices will go up an average 8.3% and IMAX ticket prices will climb 10%.
On October 28th audiences will have a chance to see 20 minutes of the film at Imax theaters.
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At the very least, Dragon will have IMAX screens all to itself until Iron Man 2 opens May 7.
One-third were Imax and 3D screens while the rest were regular 2D screens.
"He's a 3-D ambassador like no other, " says Greg Foster, president of Imax.
Imax President Greg Foster credited the studio's marketing campaign with the ability to stoke viewer anticipation for the film.
Normally he works on an A4 sized canvass but for Imax it had to be four times this size.
Notably, those films did not have 3D or IMAX surcharges boosting their totals.
The museum will offer hot chocolate, access to its exhibits, circus performances and the IMAX theatre - all for free.
However, his films have been released in the big-screen IMAX format, which has similarly expensive tickets, but is less widespread.
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He is working with IMAX to incorporate a private theater into the 11, 000-square-foot waterfront home he is building in Miami Beach.
To make adequate space for the IMAX screening room, he moved a few closets and bathrooms, and redesigned a chef's kitchen.
The film earned 32% of its money in IMAX, which is a record for the format in terms of non-exclusive releases.
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