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American IMAX films

  • Captain America: Civil WarIn 1991, a brainwashed super-soldier named James Barnes intercepted an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum in Siberia.
  • Avengers: EndgameIn October 2014, Marvel Studios announced a two-part sequel to Avengers: Age of Ultron. The plan was to film both parts back-to-back under the working title…
  • Justice League (film)Warner Bros. Pictures began developing a live-action Justice League film in February 2007 with husband-and-wife duo Michele and Kieran Mulroney hired to…
  • Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3DMagnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D dropped into IMAX theaters on the 23rd of September 2005, inviting audiences to stand on the lunar surface…
  • Avengers: Age of UltronIn October 2011, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced that the studio was beginning to look at their Phase Two films.
  • Avengers: Infinity WarIn October 2014, Marvel Studios announced a two-part sequel to Avengers: Age of Ultron. The project carried the working title Avengers: Infinity War , Part 1.
  • First Man (film)In early 2003, actor-director Clint Eastwood and production people at the Warner Bros. studio bought the film rights to James R.
  • The Avengers (2012 film)The Avengers opened on the 4th of May 2012, in the United States, and within 19 days it had passed $1 billion in ticket sales, matching a record previously…
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey2001: A Space Odyssey premiered on the 2nd of April 1968 at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., before an audience that included critics who were, in…
  • Jaws (film)Jaws, the 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, begins with a simple and terrifying image: a young woman swimming alone at night, and then something…
  • Deadpool & WolverineDevelopment on a third Deadpool film began at 20th Century Fox by November 2016. David Leitch was hired to direct Deadpool 2 in November 2016 after Tim…
  • Transformers: Dark of the MoonTransformers: Dark of the Moon opens with a secret. In 1962, according to the film's premise, a spacecraft called the Ark crash-lands on the far side of the…
  • Thor (film)Thor, the 2011 Marvel Studios superhero film, opened its world premiere at the Event Cinemas theatre on George Street in Sydney on the 17th of April 2011.
  • Apocalypse NowApocalypse Now arrived in theaters on the 15th of August 1979, and it carried on its back over a million feet of film, a near-fatal heart attack, a typhoon…
  • InceptionInception begins with a question that Christopher Nolan first put to paper around 2001: what if someone could steal your secrets while you slept?
  • Star Wars: The Last JediIn October 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm and announced a new trilogy of Star Wars films. J.J. Abrams directed the first installment, The Force Awakens…
  • Rogue OneIn 2003, visual effects supervisor John Knoll pitched a story called Destroyer of Worlds during the production of Episode III in Sydney.
  • Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerA year after the Battle of Crait, Emperor Palpatine sends a message of revenge to the galaxy. Kylo Ren obtains a Sith wayfinder that leads him to the hidden…
  • Apollo 13 (film)Apollo 13, the 1995 film directed by Ron Howard, opens on the night of the 20th of July, 1969, with astronaut Jim Lovell watching Neil Armstrong take his…
  • Titanic (1997 film)Titanic, the 1997 film written and directed by James Cameron, began not on a Hollywood lot but at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Star Wars: The Force AwakensStar Wars: The Force Awakens arrived in theaters on the 18th of December 2015, carrying a weight that almost no film in history had to bear.
  • Ex Machina (film)Alex Garland held a computer in his hands when he was eleven years old. That machine felt like it had its own mind to the young boy.
  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the ClonesGeorge Lucas began writing the script for Attack of the Clones in March 2000, just three months before principal photography started.
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesIn May 2013, Warner Bros. Pictures and Sweetpea Entertainment announced a film based on Dungeons & Dragons with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick writing the…
  • Everything Everywhere All at OnceEvelyn Quan Wang stands in a laundromat in Simi Valley, California, staring at an IRS audit notice that threatens to destroy her family's life.
  • Men in Black 3Men in Black 3 began as a conversation between two men stuck on a film they weren't sure they wanted to make again. Will Smith pitched the idea for a third…
  • Barbie (film)The concept of a live-action Barbie film first emerged in the mid-1980s at Cannon Films, but nothing came to fruition. Renewed development began in September…
  • Solo: A Star Wars StoryGeorge Lucas began developing a Han Solo prequel in 2012. He commissioned Lawrence Kasdan to write the screenplay for what would become Solo: A Star Wars…
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyPlans for a fifth Indiana Jones film date back to 1979, when George Lucas and Steven Spielberg made a deal with Paramount Pictures to produce five films.
  • Alita: Battle AngelIn 2003, James Cameron confirmed he would direct a film version of Yukito Kishiro's manga series Battle Angel Alita. The domain name battleangelalita.com was…