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...Vietnam War protest circulated on the Internet, she knows she's still too politically hot to support any candidate publicly. (She "hopes for a Hillary Clinton presidency," but a decade of red-state living makes her doubt its likelihood.) Instead, Fonda spends most of her free time at the multiplex (she loved The Aviator and Finding Neverland) or with her family. Her once contentious relationship with daughter Vanessa Vadim, 36, has improved. Vadim and her two young children, as well as Fonda's other daughter, Mary Luana Williams (known as Lulu), 36, an African American whom Fonda unofficially adopted when...
IMAX is pitching its wares to multiplex theaters and Hollywood...
...story-tall screens in museums and its educational films on such subjects as dolphins and space--some in 3-D. Cool? Definitely. Profitable? Not very, especially considering the $8 million cost of an IMAX theater. But over the past 21 months, IMAX has introduced a new technology that allows multiplex operators to retrofit existing theaters for about $1.6 million. The company also developed a way to digitally convert films to its giant-screen format--making Hollywood blockbusters easily IMAX ready. (At the moment the 3D process used in Polar Express works only on computer-generated films; 3-D live-action...
...once staid IMAX now has Hollywood sizzle and a new customer base: multiplex owners. The updated business model appears to be working. In the past year, IMAX had successful runs with three Hollywood titles, including Spider-Man 2, and has inked deals for 25 theaters worldwide. IMAX now operates 245 theaters in 35 countries, including China and India...
Eric Wold, an analyst for Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., believes IMAX gives movie studios and multiplex owners a competitive advantage--and generates extra revenues for both. Or as Dan Fellman, head of domestic theatrical distribution for Warner Bros. (owned by TIME'S parent company), puts it: "IMAX 'event-izes' your movie. It's that simple...