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Imax and Wanda Film, China’s largest exhibitor, have announced a big expansion of their longtime strategic partnership there spanning technology and content. The agreement calls for Wanda Film to upgrade 61 of its top performing locations to state-of-the-art Imax with Laser technology including in…

Faster, higher, stronger – and popcorn. That’s what’s on tap at movie theaters across the country this summer. For the first time in Olympics history, the 2024 Paris Summer Games will be screened in movie theaters. More than 150 IMAX theaters are live broadcasting the opening ceremony on July 26…

MGM/Imax's The Blue Angels lands a hefty $1.3 million on just 255 domestic Imax screens from limited showtimes in the large format exhibitor's exclusive theatrical engagement. The Paul Crowder film, with Glen Powell and Bad Robot as producers, follows the Navy's famed demonstration flying squadron. It…

Babes by Pamela Adlon, co-written and starring Ilana Glazer, debuts in limited release with films by Hang Song-soo and Bertrand Bonello and docs on a controversial Venice Biennale, ground-breaking female clerics, and the Blue Angels Navy Squadron. A trio of festival favorites expand. While eyes now are on…

Following the global success of Oppenheimer and Dune: Part Two, Imax is looking forward to its biggest ever "filmed for Imax" slate in 2025, including at least 14 titles currently shooting with Imax film or Imax-certified digital cameras, which are due for release next year.  The company said today…

As Deadline first told you, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis was always destined for an Imax release. Heck, the first screening was shown at Universal CityWalk Imax theater. So, there’s no news in the fact that the $120 million dystopian future epic is getting a global Imax release. But here’s some: we…

SM Cinema, the largest exhibitor in the Philippines, and IMAX have pacted for a significant expansion to their longstanding partnership with 10 IMAX with Laser systems in the market. The deal more than doubles IMAX’s footprint in the market and will bring the IMAX experience to three new locations, as…

Imax more than hit its Q1 numbers with $79 million in revenue last quarter (down 9%) and a solid earnings bump, thanks in large part to its run with Dune: Part 2, a blockbuster amid a slow quarter for big releases. The box office was offset in part by a dip in new Imax systems sales. The large…

The holds on Legendary/Warner Bros’ Dune Part Two have been great week-to-week since its March 1 opening, nothing steeper than -45% in a given week and as low as -36% in its third. That’s all due to Imax, and for fans who savor the Denis Villeneuve directed sequel, it’s getting an extended run in that…

The NBC television network will extend its live coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony to Imax locations nationwide on Friday, July 26 — the first time the global event will be presented live on the big screen. The first-ever Summer Olympic opening ceremony not held in a stadium will…

Amazon MGM Studios has released the trailer and set the release dates for the documentary Blue Angels, an inside look at the U.S. Navy’s famed Flight Demonstration Squadron. The doc, which hails from J.J. Abrams and Top Gun: Maverick star Glen Powell, will jet to Imax for a one-week run from May…

David Breashears, whose mountaineering led him to climb Mt. Everest five times, died at his Massachusetts home on Thursday. He was 68 and no cause has been determined. Breashears co-directed and co-produced a 1998 Imax documentary for Universal, Everest, about climbing the fabled mountain. Footage…