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/PRNewswire/ IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected longstanding Board Member Darren Throop founder, CEO.
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NEW YORK, May 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/
The summer blockbuster season roared to life in the U.S., as IMAX (NYSE: IMAX) delivered a monster $5.3 domestic opening weekend for A Quiet Place Part II on 361 screens. Despite accounting for less than 3% of total screens, IMAX captured 9% of the film s domestic box office as the Company delivered its biggest opening weekend of the pandemic era.
An IMAX poster from ‘A Quiet Place Part II’
Reported overall box office for A Quiet Place Part II exceeded the opening weekend for the original film a remarkable result made even more impressive given that social distancing measures remain in place across key markets. For instance, even though New York and California have eased capacity limitations in theaters, social distancing guidelines currently limit capacity to a maximum of 40% in IMAX theaters in New York City and Los Angeles.
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NEW YORK, May 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ IMAX (NYSE: IMAX) raced to a blazing start for the 2021 summer box office season with the strong international debut of Universal s F9, which delivered $14 million across 800 IMAX screens in China, the Middle East, Russia, and South Korea. Despite opening in a limited number of markets, the latest Fast & Furious epic drove IMAX to its biggest opening weekend for a Hollywood film since December 2019 and its second biggest international opening weekend ever in the month of May. Summer blockbuster season has arrived with the strong debut of F9, and it s clear there is healthy pent-up demand among global audiences as big, highly anticipated Hollywood movies return to theaters, said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. Universal s bold strategy to launch the release of F9 in China and jump start the summer clearly paid off, and the early success of the film bodes well for the continued rebound of the global
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