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Domestically, the film grossed an estimated $70 million, of which $5.3 million was generated in 278 IMAX theaters.

Avatar, the overwhelmingly successful James Cameron film, didn't change anything for IMAX Corp .

In 2010, the consolidated revenue of China film industry approximated RMB16 billion, an increase of 48%. Currently, box office, which was about RMB 5.7 billion in H1 2011, is still the main revenue source and core impetus for growth of the film industry in China.

NEW YORK, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation and Cineworld Group PLC, the UK's largest cinema chain, today announced an expansion of the companies' revenue sharing agreement with the addition of up to five new IMAX theatre systems.

IMAX Corporation and Lionsgate today announced that Lionsgate's blockbuster film The Hunger Games will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format and released in China in 67 IMAX digital theatres in June.

Chinese models dressed as brides posing next to a wax statue of Robert Pattinson at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Shanghai.

HollyFrontier Corp : HolyFrontier was removed from Deutsche Bank's short-term buy list due to an automatic time demotion.

A more flexible movie slate at the giant screen exhibitor has back-up plans in place should a potential blockbuster committed to its screens like Disney's "John Carter" turn into a dud.

Imax is launching what is considered the first campaign aimed directly at consumers.

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As part of its increased cooperation with Chinese filmmakers, the company will release Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, starring Jet Li, in about 30 screens in North America, the first Chinese film to be released there in IMAX 3-D format.

Partnering yet again with Warner Bros. Pictures, the giant screen exhibitor will screen a digitally-remastered version day-and-date with New Line's June 15 musical release based on the hit Broadway show.

"The Avengers" will receive an extended run on Imax screens after exhibitors clamored to keep the blockbuster film in theaters longer than originally planned - an improvised solution that in some cases involves sharing the same supersize screen with another movie.

LOS ANGELES, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation Marvel Studios and The Walt Disney Studios today announced that the epic Super Hero adventure Marvel's The Avengers has surpassed IMAX's domestic opening weekend box office record by generating $15.3 million of the film's record-setting domestic gross of more than $200 million, resulting in ... (more)

First Tsui Hark 's 3D martial arts epic Flying Swords of Dragon Gate became the highest-grossing Chinese-produced movie in the Imax format in China.

The US opening lifted the worldwide total for the film -- called Avengers Assemble in the UK -- to $642m after only 12 days on release.

That's what Captain America tells the Incredible Hulk to do in The Avengers , and that's what the Marvel Comics superhero mash-up did at the box office, smashing the domestic revenue record with a $200.3 million debut.

IMAX Corporation is an entertainment technology company, with particular emphasis on film and digital imaging technologies including 3D, post-production and digital projection.

Paul Simon , and Mark Stewart perform at a fundraiser for the Turkana Basin Institute Wednesday at the Highline Stages in Manhattan.

I reported earlier about the IMAX phenomenon, and the precarious position it placed many screen palaces in for product posting.A Now that position becomes more tenuous as Imax Corp.