Regal Entertainment Group Offers Watchmen: The IMAX Experience at 35 Locations
posted by Jay Cochran in movies at 03:24 PM on 2009.02.25
Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States, announced today that Watchmen: The IMAX Experience® will be available at a total of 35 Regal Entertainment Group IMAX® theatres across the country. These Regal IMAX theatres include six locations with recently installed IMAX digital projection systems. Advance tickets are on sale now for Watchmen: The IMAX Experience.
“Regal Entertainment Group is dedicated to providing premium entertainment options for our patrons as evidenced by our growing network of IMAX theatres. The impressive IMAX sound system and amazing images will immerse you in the action for an amazing trip to the movies,” stated Dick Westerling, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Advertising for Regal Entertainment Group. “Regal is proud to add six new IMAX digital projection systems in time for the release of Watchmen: The IMAX Experience.”
The six newest Regal Entertainment Group theatres to add The IMAX Experience to existing auditoriums are listed below:
Edwards Aliso Viejo Stadium 20 & IMAX – Orange County, CA
Edwards Camarillo Stadium 12 & IMAX – Ventura County, CA
Regal Commonwealth Stadium 20 & IMAX – Richmond, VA
Regal Dole Cannery Stadium 18 & IMAX – Honolulu, HI
Regal Escondido Stadium 16 & IMAX – San Diego, CA
Regal Waterford Lakes Stadium 20 & IMAX – Orlando, FL
Five more IMAX theatres are scheduled to open during the second quarter of 2009 at the following locations:
Edwards Long Beach Stadium 26 & IMAX – Long Beach, CA
Edwards South Gate Stadium 20 & IMAX – Los Angeles, CA
Edwards Temecula Stadium 15 & IMAX – Riverside County, CA
Regal Stonecrest Stadium 22 & IMAX – Charlotte, NC
Regal Thornton Place Stadium 16 & IMAX – Seattle, WA
Visit www.REGmovies.com/imax for a complete list of theatres, updated information, showtimes and to purchase tickets online. Warner Brothers and Paramount Pictures present Watchmen: The IMAX Experience with a special midnight show on Thursday night March 5 at selected locations. The movie has been rated R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, “Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the Doomsday Clock—which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union—moves closer to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion—a disbanded group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers—Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
Upcoming movies to be released in IMAX include: “Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience” (2/27/09), “Watchmen” (3/6/09), “Monsters vs. Aliens” (3/27/09), “Star Trek” (5/8/09), “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” (5/22/09), “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (6/24/09), and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (7/17/09)
IMAX digital projection systems showcase Hollywood blockbusters that have been digitally re-mastered into the unique image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience as well as original documentary-style IMAX content. Films are projected on a specially-designed screen that is slightly curved and moved forward to further immerse the audience. Images of exceptional quality, combined with IMAX's proprietary digital surround sound system and patented theatre geometry create “The IMAX Experience," making audiences feel as if they are IN the movie.
Every Regal Entertainment Group IMAX Theatre also offers IMAX® 3D. When filmmakers choose to integrate IMAX 3D into their movies, images leap off of the screen and into the laps of the audience, further enhancing the feeling of being IN the movie. This is made possible by a combination of IMAX’s powerful 3D projection system – which simultaneously projects two separate images onto the IMAX screen – and polarized IMAX 3D glasses that audience members wear to fuse the two images into a single three-dimensional motion picture. The result is an amazing IMAX 3D Experience where the screen disappears and the movie envelopes the audience.
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