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Summer 2009
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The Summer issue of LF Examiner has just been published. Here is a summary:
Top Stories

The Impact of the Recession on Giant-Screen Theaters, part 1.
   Reporter Judith Rubin speaks with representatives of three U.S. giant-screen theaters about the effect that the economic situation is having on their facilities, and how they're coping. Next month: International theaters.

The Future of Giant-Screen Dome Theaters, by Jeffrey Kirsch
   The CEO of San Diego's Fleet Science Center calls for a revival of films made specifically for dome theaters and proposes a new organization to achieve that goal.

GSCA 2009 Conference Preview
   An advance look at the Giant Screen Cinema Association's September meeting in Indianapolis, with the list of films to be presented, and the schedule of events.

Creating IMAX Effects for Transformers, by Barbara Robertson
   How Industrial Light and Magic created the unprecedented special effects for the IMAX sequences of Paramount's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Euromax Meets in Copenhagen in June

IMAX Rolling Loop Observes its 40th Birthday


The Biz (Headlines)
   Transformers sets records
   Transformers delays Harry Potter release in US
   Texas Instruments announces 4K DLP chip
   Cinemark, Barco make 4K DLP deal
   Imax Corp. makes theater deals in US, UK, India
   Imax makes DMR deal with Chinese film company
   New lead plaintiff in class-action suit v. Imax
   Imax sells $70 million in shares
   Disneynature to distribute Oceanworld 3D
   San Diego's Reuben H. Fleet dome theater renamed
   Harrisburg's Whitaker Center helping with GS film
   Imax Corp. names Gary Moss as COO
   Kathryn Chapman moves to Franklin Institute

Shorts (Headlines)
   IMAX digital theater controversy, cont'd
   GSCA to meet in Chattanooga, TN, in 2010
   GSCA Marketing Award winners
   Great Lakes wins awards
   William Peters, Ian McLennan recognized
   UN names Bradford, UK, "City of Film"

Other features:
   Premiering this summer:
      Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  
   In Production: 24 films with credits and production updates
   Summer bookings: 1,243 bookings of 104 films in 399 theaters
   Worldwide LF Theater Inventory: 513 screens
 
And much more!
Sincerely,
 
James Hyder
Editor/Publisher
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