Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

Director : Martin Scorsese Release Date : 4 April 2008 (Brazil) Genre : Documentary, Music Cast : Mick Jagger as Himself - The Rolling Stones: vocals / guitar / harmonica (also archive footage), Keith Richards as Himself - The Rolling Stones: guitar / vocals (also archive footage), Charlie Watts as ...

Call it a ploy for making even more money or an earnest response to the fanbase and their feverish desires, but The Dark Knight is hitting theaters again on Friday after destroying the world last year and breaking almost every record on the books. Today’s discussion question is a simple one th...

Filed under: Industry, Other formats IMAX has been around for years, while 3D is just now starting to really infiltrate the theater scene. Curiously, it looks as if 3D will have more of the alternate cinema market share than IMAX in no time flat, despite IMAX's tremendous advantage in launch time. T...

It’s funny how little things can ignite a fire in your inner geek. Yesterday, it was the announcement that the new Star Trek movie was going to be released simultaneously in regular theaters and in IMAX. This news got me so excited that I literally called my wife in from the living room to sho...

It seems as if just about every damn blockbuster movie these days is heading toward an IMAX release. Thanks to the success of films such as 300 and The Dark Knight , the 70mm format is quickly becoming the format of choice for “visionary” filmmakers and their CGI-heavy projects. Paramoun...

Christopher Nolan has wanted to shoot a film with IMAX for quite some time. In 2006, he shot some of The Prestige using IMAX cameras in an attempt to better learn the technology (the footage was just test footage). And as we all know, he shot the action scenes in The Dark Knight using IMAX cameras. ...

When the first trailer for Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors premiered, with the exception of Slashfilm and a few horror sites, the Net issued a collective “meh, pass.” The trailer even purportedly received loud guffaws at a press screening, and we received four death threats just for sugges...

Last night was EPIC. I had one of those movie experiences that only happens once in a long long time, where you leave the theater completely blown away by what you just experienced. Folks, this isn’t hype - The Dark Knight is a movie will destroy your expectations. Not only did I get to see The Da...

Filed under: DLP, Projector Keep an eye out for a new development at IMAX theaters near you, as it starts to roll out digital projection to its 296 theaters next month. Two sites in Washington and one in Philadelphia are first (not to mention those new theaters in Russia), with 50 expected to be com...