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Author Topic: King of Prussia IMAX has gone LIEMAX? Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 06-06-2011 09:19 PM                     Steve: where was the Langley Theater?  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-06-2011 09:51 PM                     Was just reading this thread and then went over to the Cosi Science Center website to plan a visit with our kids for next week when I saw this: "A special note about the Extreme Screen Theater: COSI's 7-story Extreme Screen will temporarily close on May 31, 2011 and reopen on June 10, 2011. What's going on, you ask? We're making the experience even BETTER for our guests! COSI is installing brand new fully-digital projection systems that will allow us to make the theater experience 'too-cool'!" www.cosi.org I really wish they would have waited a few more weeks so I could have seen the film one last time. UGH! "BETTER"? We will see, but I highly doubt it.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 06-06-2011 11:05 PM                    Wow. I think if I worked at IMAX I'd be looking for another job at this point. What a shame.  |  IP: Logged Jim Henk Master Film Handler Posts: 364 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 06-07-2011 12:59 AM                     Is there any place in the Southern California area still running IMAX *film*? I know that Reuben H Fleet Space Theatre in Balboa Park is, but that's limited to 40 minute titles, at least by the nature of their venue. Anybody else at all?  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 06-07-2011 02:41 AM                     The Rave 18 near LAX definitely still has 15/70 IMAX.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-07-2011 12:05 PM                        I'm pretty sure the California Science Center Imax in LA's Exposition Park is still film-based. It is an educational venue, so the programing is all non-theatrical 1570 titles.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-07-2011 01:56 PM                     Regarding the COSI (Center of Science & Industry)-Columbus system, that was an Iwerks 8/70 system. I always found the image to be extremely dim and underlit. 3D films in there were almost unwatchable. Perhaps the digital system will be brighter...I guess we'll just have to see. I'll try to get down there soon and check it out. I don't have a lot of faith in COSI...they used to have some quality people down there, but they were let go in a budget crunch. The digital planitarium was just dreadful, and I'm not sure they even run that any more.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 06-08-2011 07:19 PM                     15/70 and proud here still!!  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-08-2011 10:30 PM                     The Regal Hacienda Crossing 21 in Dublin, CA is still 15/70 as of the last time I was there in February. As should be the Sony Metreon in San Francisco.  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 06-11-2011 10:59 AM                     It appears the Regal in Dublin went to digital sometime in the spring, as they played Thor IMAX 3D, a digital-only IMAX title.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-11-2011 02:08 PM                        I'd just like to say that I cannot understand why any place would ever be called "King of Prussia". This is unacceptable.  |  IP: Logged Manny Montes Master Film Handler Posts: 270 From: United States Registered: Feb 2010 posted 07-18-2011 03:57 PM                     it's a weird name, and i'm not sure why it was named that way, but its named after the city it is in.  |  IP: Logged Joseph L. Kleiman Master Film Handler Posts: 380 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 07-21-2011 01:53 PM                     King of Prussia was actually the name of an inn that opened in the area in the 1760's. The town that was founded near it was named after the inn since it was already on all the maps and well known to travelers. There are a number of different stories about how the inn gots its name, but they all relate to political events around the time of the Revolutionary War. The inn building still exists (having been moved about 10 years ago to make room for a highway project) and houses the King of Prussia Chamber of Commerce.  |  IP: Logged Allan Young Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: EGHAM, Surrey UK Registered: Jun 2011 posted 07-22-2011 04:49 AM                     Mark: something else to consider when choosing a venue for the next Batman film - for The Dark Knight, there were eleven special prints for "prestige" locations produced. They A/B rolled the blown-up DMR footage with the OCN from the IMAX cameras. NYC got one, along with The Bridge and City Walk in LA, Chicago and London. They're planning to do the same for The Dark Knight Rises. I'm guessing there hasn't been direct printing for IMAX in quite a while - maybe it was done for some of the early shorts when there were only a few IMAX venues ?  |  IP: Logged Joseph L. Kleiman Master Film Handler Posts: 380 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 07-22-2011 06:18 PM                     We had one of the special prints in Columbus, GA to open the Infantry Museum. We were fortunate enough that, as a second-run theater, my request for our prints to be shipped from Mall of GA were met. The print, even after both the initial and encore runs, looked amazing. Both Mission Impossible and Dark Knight Rises will have footage shot in 15/70, so even if you can't catch one of the special prints, try to see them in one of the few remaining IMAX film theaters.  |  IP: Logged

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