Disney and IMAX Team Up For New 3D Space Film

Two of my favorite things are coming together for a truly epic experience. Walt Disney Pictures and IMAX are teaming up to create a new 3D film about space, specifically set for IMAX. The film, set to be made by IMAX filmmaker Toni Myers is still untitled, but the fact that it’s an IMAX film, co-produced by Disney, is so very exciting to me. I’m a huge movie buff, and going to see films in IMAX is usually second to none for any moviegoing experience I’ve had. Films come to life in a whole new way on IMAX screens, especially ones shot for the format. I really can’t wait to see what the movie is about, and experience it in a whole new way.

This isn’t the first time that Disney and IMAX have teamed up together. The relationship between the two companies goes back as far as ‘Fantasia 2000’, and more recently, ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’, so it’s good to see the two companies still working together. Hit the jump for the full press release and leave your thoughts below. Are you excited for a new 3D IMAX film about space? 

IMAX Corporation and The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), today announced an agreement to produce and distribute the latest IMAX® 3D cinematic space spectacle from acclaimed filmmaker Toni Myers, who has been crafting mind-blowing movie experiences for IMAX audiences for more than 40 years.

This marks the first time IMAX and The Walt Disney Studios are jointly producing a film together. The companies have previously collaborated on the distribution of numerous films from the groundbreaking release of Fantasia 2000 to the recent successful opening of Oz The Great and Powerful.

Myers’ upcoming 3D film, which is still untitled, will use IMAX’s extremely high-resolution photography and videography to offer breathtaking, illuminating views of our home planet from space, exploring the astonishing changes that have occurred on Earth in just the past several decades.

Made in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the film will explore mankind’s future on – and off – the planet, increasing our understanding of the solar system, while also traveling light-years to other star systems to ponder the possibilities of “Goldilocks,” an Earth-like planet. The film is expected to be released in 2015.

“Disney has always been a leader in creating immersive fantasy worlds for audiences, but we know there’s no more immersive world than the real one,” said Alan Bergman, President, The Walt Disney Studios. “This is a bird’s eye view of our incredible universe and our future in it, and we’re looking forward to diving in with the perfect collaborators, Toni Myers and IMAX.”

“We’re thrilled to collaborate on our first joint production with Disney,” said Greg Foster, Chairman and President of IMAX Entertainment. “Toni Myers and her team have given us films that have been educating, delighting and astonishing IMAX audiences for many years, and we look forward to continuing the journey with this latest spectacle.”

Myers has been editing, writing, producing and directing films specifically tailored for The IMAX Experience® since 1971. Her most recent documentary feature film, 2010′s acclaimed Hubble 3D, has grossed nearly $53 million in IMAX® theaters to date.

“The 1990 IMAX film Blue Planet was the first time we pointed the IMAX® cameras from space back to Earth to reveal, on a grand scale, the changes being made to our planet by both natural and human forces,” Myers said. “It’s marvelous and important to have this new opportunity to show what has happened to our planet since then. The International Space Station is a unique and perfect platform from which to see how our home is evolving, and at the same time explore our exciting future in other worlds.”

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