IMAX Corporation
The IMAX logo
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| Traded as | : IMAX |
| Industry | Motion picture production and exhibition |
| Predecessor | Multi-Screen Corporation, IMAX Systems Corporation |
| Founded | 1968 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Founders |
Graeme Ferguson Roman Kroitor Robert Kerr William Shaw |
| Headquarters | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Bradley Wechsler (Chairman) Richard Gelfond (CEO) |
| Products | Special-venue films and movie theatres |
| Revenue |
 US$2.095 billion (2016) |
| Profit |
US$ 41.3 million (FY 2012) |
| Total assets |
US$421 million (FY 2012) |
| Total equity |
US$253 million (FY 2012) |
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Number of employees
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526 |
| Divisions | IMAX, IMAX Dome, IMAX DMR |
| Subsidiaries | Ridefilm Corporation, Sonics Associates, David Keighley Productions |
| Website | www.imax.com |
The IMAX Corporation is a Canadian theatre company which designs and manufactures IMAX cameras and projection systems as well as performing film development, production, post production and distribution to IMAX affiliated theatres worldwide. Founded in 1968, it has operations in Toronto, as well as New York City and Los Angeles.
As of June 2016, the IMAX theater network consisted of 1,102 theatres in 69 countries. These include IMAX variations such as IMAX 3D, IMAX Dome, and Digital IMAX.
IMAX is a Canadian corporation that is based in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario. The Company was officially founded in 1967 when three filmmakers, Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr incorporated IMAX Corporation. The idea and the new technology, which resulted in the birth of the company, came the work that Ferguson, Kroitor and Kerr had done producing the multi-screen National Film Board of Canada production In the Labyrinth and Ferguson's Man and the Polar Regions for Expo 67. From their experience, Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr realized that new technology would be necessary to develop a larger and more complex project than previously seen. As a result, they sought an engineer named William Shaw in 1968 (he had gone to Galt Collegiate Institute in Galt, Ontario, now Cambridge, with Ferguson and Kerr) to help develop this technology. Shaw created this new projector that allowed for films to have exceptionable quality and to be ten times larger than conventional 35mm picture frames. The first movie IMAX Corporation produced using this new technology was Tiger Child which was featured at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. It was because of the multi-screen viewing that Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr wanted to create a theatre with giant screens, surround sound and stadium seating.
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