RELEASE: THEATRICAL

A fury is building on the surface of the Sun – high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave that reaches 100,000 kilometers high, rising loops of electrified gas.  What’s driving these strange phenomena?  How will they affect planet Earth?  Find the answers as we venture into the seething interior of our star.

Solar Superstorms is a major new production that takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and superhot plasma that vent the Sun’s rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system: Coronal Mass Ejections.

The show features one of the most intensive efforts ever made to visualize the inner workings of the sun, including a series of groundbreaking scientific visualizations computed on the giant new supercomputing initiative, Blue Waters, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois.

Brace yourself for the onslaught of the next … Solar Superstorm.

A Tale of Twin Spacecraft From Earth, the Sun cannot be looked at with human eyes.  Solar Storms gives the audience the opportunity to see the Sun up close.  Stand above the arctic circle and witness the most brilliant auroras on Earth; take a ride on a solar blast from the Sun’s surface to Earth’s Magnetosphere, and come to a deeper understanding of what this vast sea of fire means to life here on Earth.

Two boys from war-torn Germany turned their never-ending dreams into reality with never-before-seen footage of the famous duo’s wildlife home and touching insight into how the masters of the impossible came to be.

The parable about a small star which in search of friends and adventures finds its mission on Earth helping people.

Presented by Jean-Michel Cousteau, Sharks 3D is a breathtaking new three-dimensional film experience that offers audiences an astonishing up-close encounter with the Lions and Tigers of the Ocean.  Come face-to-face with a multitude of shark species, including the Great White, Hammerhead, and Whale Shark.  Witness them as they really are: not wicked man-eating creatures, but wild, fascinating and endangered animals that have been in existence a million years before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.  Join the expert team of ocean explorers that brought you Ocean Wonderland 3D on this unique round-the-globe expedition documenting the life of the ultimate predator.

Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of ocean pioneer Jacques Cousteau, offers a breakthrough look at a secret world within the ocean that is perhaps the biggest story of all—that the smallest life in the sea is the mightiest force on which we all depend.  Alongside marine biologist Holly Lohuis, he invites viewers to dive into this whole new world that will leave them in awe of the beauty and diversity of the oceans – the source of all life on our planet – and inspire an even stronger desire to protect what they have either seen for the first time or perhaps re-discovered along the journey.

Narrated by renowned oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean 3D introduces audiences to over 30 species, illuminating behaviors captured for the first time thanks to the development of new tools that allow underwater filming in 3D, ultra-HD 5K, slow motion, macro, and with motion control, and takes them to remarkable and vibrant environments such as the Bahamas, Fiji, and Bimini.

From the coast of California to the remote reaches of South and Western Australia, this film pursues blue sharks, whale sharks, and the notorious great white to allow viewers an up-close experience.

Through the power of IMAX® 3D, experience a wondrous adventure from the dinosaur age with Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World.  Join Julie, an imaginative young woman, as she journeys from a modern-day aquarium to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.  Explore an amazing underwater universe inhabited by larger-than-life creatures — including the powerful Liopleurodon, long-necked Elasmosaurus, and gigantic Shonisaurus — which were ruling the seas before dinosaurs conquered the earth.  Thanks to state-of-the-art ultra-photorealistic imagery, see science come alive in a unique and entertaining manner.  Immerse yourself in a lost age, 200 million years back in time, and get ready for a face-to-face encounter with the T-Rex of the seas!

Produced by 3D Entertainment, Save Our Sharks gives a look into the behaviors and feeding patterns of these feral kings of the ocean.

Santa’s Slide is the story of a small Santa figure hanging on a Christmas tree in a US 60’s living room.  After his awakening, he is experiencing a fantastic journey to get his cookie!

It is the future.  Civilization has ended.  A war exists between machines and the survivors of the human race.  Amidst the ruins of a forgotten world lie the secrets of our former glory.  Follow our hero on a high speed motorbike chase through the crumbling cities, tunnels, and streets as he attempts to escape a weaponized attack drone with what may be the key to mankind’s future.

Rocky Mountain Express propels audiences on a steam train journey through the breathtaking vistas of the Canadian Rockies and relates the epic adventure of building the nation’s first transcontinental railway.

A journey to the origins of space and our life.  The show tells in breathtaking pictures the story of the Universe and the Earth – from the big bang to the onset of modern man.

Twenty three centuries ago, Alexander the Great founded a magnificent city in Egypt called Alexandria.  It was considered Egypt’s most important trading metropolis on the Mediterranean and was filled with hundreds of palaces, temples, and glorious landmarks like the great Library and Lighthouse.  All traces of ancient monuments have vanished, and today most parts of the ancient city lie at the Mediterranean seabed.  We recall the memories of this ancient capital lost to time in Raising Alexandria.

Since the beginning of time, the balance of the universe has rested upon a war unseen by human eyes … a crusade that wages until this very day … THE VOID, an ancient and malevolent being, leads his vast army of anti-matter wages war against all matter.  On the other hand, THE CORE is a wise and benevolent being and sends his children, photons, to fight against THE VOID and his anti-matters.  A young photon named DAVE refuses to embark on the quest with the rest of photons.  Only until one day, THE RANGER, a ghost particle pleads for his help to deliver a mysterious gem to Cassini Space Core Commander to save trillions upon trillions lives of photons.  Hesitant but without a choice, Dave agrees to carry on the mission that bears the fate of the struggle …

The categorization of dwarf planets sets the world in two parts … one who loved Pluto as planet and the others who preferred simpler cataloging of celestial bodies … Dwarf planets are the worlds too small to be considered as full-fledged planets, but large enough to be classified as asteroids.  These are the ancient relics of our solar system.  They were born the same way as our eight planets, but somehow along the way, they stopped developing further.  These embryonic planets holds the key to the secrets of planetary evolution.  Today 5 small bodies fits the category of dwarf planets, but there are more waiting to join the list.  Our advanced probes like ‘New Horizon’ and ‘Dawn’ are seeking the unknown.  Let’s take a glimpse of the wee class of dwarf planets in our full dome show, Pursuing the Dwarfs.

Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey is an exploration of the sights and sounds of continents and cultures, guided by the internationally acclaimed performers of the sensational stage show STOMP.

Until now, astronomers have only been able to hypothesize about what Pluto looks like.  A team from the Montreal Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium went to Arizona last spring to visit the legendary Lowell Observatory and film some 360° immersive images of the historic telescope that discovered Pluto in 1930, along with some of the most beautiful skies visible from Earth.  Pluto: Chronicles of an Ex-Planet is an immersive experience telling the story of this intriguing dwarf planet that continues to fascinate us even today.