Regarding its remaining 2008 film slate, IMAX is pleased to announce it has agreed on material terms with DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount to release Eagle Eye: The IMAX Experience, the Company's 30th DMR film, on September 26th. Following this action thriller, as previously announced, IMAX will partner with DreamWorks Animation to release Madagascar 2: The IMAX Experience on November 7, for a two week run followed by Warner Bros. Pictures' Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: An IMAX 3D Experience on November 21. With the addition of Eagle Eye, the Company expects to have eight first run DMR films in 2008 compared to five in 2007.
Looking to 2009, the Company is pleased to announce that the film adaptation of graphic novel Watchmen, (Warner Bros. Pictures/Paramount) directed by Zack Snyder, will be released to IMAX theatres on March 6th. Watchmen is Snyder's second film to be released in IMAX, the first being the highly successful 300.
In addition, the Company has reached agreement on material terms to release IMAX versions of the following 2009 Hollywood films: Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian (20th Century Fox, May 22, 2009) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount, June 26, 2009). Both films follow the collaborations between IMAX and the respective studios on the first Night at the Museum in December of 2006 and Transformers in September of 2007. Watchmen, Night at the Museum 2 and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are in addition to the Company's previously announced 2009 films, Under the Sea 3D, an original IMAX film being released in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation's Monsters vs. Aliens 3D.
The Company's announced 2010 film slate includes: Hubble 3D (working title) from Warner Bros. Pictures in February 2010; How to Train Your Dragon 3D from DreamWorks Animation in March 2010; and Dreamworks' Shrek Goes Fourth 3D in May 2010.
Source: IMAX Corporation
