RELEASE: THEATRICAL

Origins of Life deals with some of the most profound questions of life science: the origins of life and the human search for life beyond Earth.

Starting with the Big Bang, in chronological order, the show deals with the prebiotic chemistry in the Universe, the formation of stars, formation of solar systems, and the first life on Earth.  Furthermore, Origins of Life covers the great extinctions as well as our search for (primitive) life beyond planet Earth.

Origins of Life is a inspirational journey through time and a celebration of life on Earth.  It features many recent discoveries related to life science, demonstrating that if there was ever a time that science made its greatest advances, it’s right now!

Join this expedition to Mars and enjoy a thrilling immersive experience.  You’ll dive into the depths of seemingly bottomless canyons and brave the violent winds that sweep across the Red Planet’s icy dunes.  Set to music by Dumas, One Day… on Mars will take you to a world that mankind, in its ongoing search for life, could well visit in just a few decades.

Ocean Wonderland 3D takes you on a stunning visual and sensorial diving adventure beneath the waves to the pulsating heart of the oceans: the coral reefs.  Join your friendly host, Aris the turtle, and enter this magical and beautiful, yet endangered and fragile world from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Bahamas.  Discover the vast bio-diversity thriving there and the crucial role played by coral reefs within the marine ecosystem by providing a habitat and food for a wide variety of fish species, and maintaining the well-being of our planet.  Hold your breath and plunge into this unique, larger-than-life diving experience.

Plunge into the wildly spectacular Sea of Cortes and join beautiful naturalist Iliana Ortega to swim with whales, dolphins, sharks, and giant manta rays. Then venture into the boiling hot desert to see Baja’s drier side, and up snow capped mountains as you explore the peninsula’s wonderful balance of life. Winner of Best Theatrical Program at Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Inspired Mexican President Vicente Fox to declare a new nature preserve.

One of Spitz’s most popular fulldome shows, Oasis In Space, transports the audience on a startling and beautiful voyage through our universe, galaxy, and solar system in search of liquid water, a key ingredient for life on Earth.  With a proven, audience-tested story, and an original surround format musical score, Oasis In Space will delight viewers of all ages.

Follow a fellow toy soldier on an epic adventure as you race through a busy toy store after closing time.  Buckle your seatbelt and hold on tight!

This 3D ride film is fun for the whole family!

Join the young Charles Darwin on an adventurous voyage of exploration circumnavigating the World with the HMS Beagle.  In the 19th century in Victorian times many physical phenomena were already discovered and described by natural laws, but life’s most eloquent mechanism was still unknown: how could new species arise to replace those lost in extinction?  It was time for someone to come forth with a Naturalist explanation of this mystery of mysteries.

During the special exhibition of “Landscape Reunited: Huang Gongwang and Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountain,” Child Pillow goes over to the exhibition hall just like anyone else to see the legendary national treasure.  Out of nowhere, he is invited by the scholar in the painting to step into “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains!”  In this Chinese style painting, Child Pillow encounters a little white pony from “one hundred horses” who is searching for its shadow.  Both of them return to exhibition hall, and the courageous Child Pillow promise to find the shadow for the little white pony.  However, when wondering in the exhibition hall, Child Pillow collides with Pixie and Jade Duck, and at the same time, crushes the famous calligraphy “Scent of Flowers Wafting.”  Now they are in big trouble …

On Christmas day of 2003 Pasquale Scaturro and a team of explorers set out on an epic quest to become the first to complete a full descent of the world’s greatest river, the Blue Nile and the Nile, from source to sea.  Four months later on April 28 at 7:01am, Pasquale and his expedition partner, Gordon Brown, reached the mouth of the Nile at the Mediterranean Sea becoming the first in history to complete this 3,250-mile journey.  Their amazing journey is the basis for the IMAX® film, Mystery of the Nile.

Mysteries of the Great Lakes is a timely film.  All across the Great Lakes basin, there is a renewed interest in the health of the Lakes, and an increased awareness of the importance of this fresh water resource to the social and economic vitality of North America.  Dubbed ‘inland seas’ by early European explorers, the Great Lakes have some of the most spectacular wilderness scenery on earth, and a fifth of all the planet’s fresh water.  Today, 25% of all Canadians and 10% of Americans live on the Great Lakes.  In addition, one in every three Canadians and one in every seven Americans rely on the Great Lakes for their fresh water.

Through several interlocking stories including the story of maritime commerce and the ships that move cargo through the inland waterway, Mysteries of the Great Lakes will take you on a journey through the greatest lake system in the world, and showcase the amazing geography, ecology, science, and history of the region through the most powerful film medium in the world — IMAX.

Mysteries of China captures one of the great archaeological events in modern times telling the story of ancient China, the First Emperor, and the literal foundation of the China we know today.  Starting with modern China and springing back as we seek the birth of this mighty nation, we talk of an ancient time when a fierce warrior brought together a warring nation, and how an accidental discovery changed everything we know about China’s past.

It happened in 1974 when farmers digging a well in Xi’an stumbled upon one of the greatest archaeological finds the world had ever discovered – the Terracotta Warriors and the Tomb of the First Emperor.  The Terracotta Warriors offer a unique time capsule into the past revealing many things about the very founding of this great country which we use to tell a larger story of the growth of China into a true superpower.

From modern China to ancient China and back again, the film is a visual adventure using beautiful aerial photography and cutting-edge time-lapse techniques to reveal great majesty, tragedy, splendor, and growth in a nation that continues to excel quickly into the future.

Audiences will be captivated as they are transported into a magical, Hogwarts-like, neo-gothic museum, to enjoy a thrilling adventure as strange and exotic beasts emerge from their display cases and come back to life.  But this is not just a Hollywood fantasy – Museum Alive 3D is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between leading the museum experts and prize-winning special effects animators who together create the most scientifically accurate and photo-realistic film of extinct creatures based on the latest interpretations of the fossil evidence.

Providing the link between specimens is a naturalist (David Attenborough) who has been given the privilege of visiting the museum after hours, and who chooses ten of the most scientifically significant and visually exhilarating animals to showcase.  By resurrecting them in incredible “living” detail, the film allows Attenborough to interact with them as if they had never died out, while demonstrating how they would have behaved when alive.

Museum Alive 3D unites stunning visuals, exciting story-telling and the latest science to create an experience that is spectacular, enlightening, and fun for young and old.

(AKA Egypt: Secrets of the Mummies)

Journey to the royal tombs of Egypt and explore the history of ancient Egyptian society as told through the mummies of the past.  The film follows explorers and scientists as they piece together the archeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies, and provides audiences with a window into the fascinating and mysterious world of the pharaohs.  To unwrap the secrets of the pharaohs is to perhaps glimpse the future of our own civilization.

Moons: Worlds of Mystery immerses you in the amazing diversity of moons and the important roles they play in shaping our solar system.

Follow in the footsteps of astronauts to our silvery Moon, then venture beyond to unfamiliar and exotic worlds.  Journey to the outer planets and their moons, and return home with newfound wonder about the dynamic and intricate solar system in which we all live.

Dive to the depths of the ocean to discover one of the most hostile places on the planet — where there is no sunlight, it’s near freezing — and life is unlike anything we have ever experienced.  State of the art 3D digital animation takes viewers on a journey to the deep sea to discover underwater volcanoes, strange animals, and much more.  An HD/3D film by Ronan Chapalain & Pascal Vuong.

In this short animation, the archetypal hero takes a journey through seven stages: birth, childhood, mission, labyrinth, monster, battle, and death/rebirth.  Through purely abstract, moving images, the corresponding emotional states are conveyed: calm, love, joy, surprise, fear, anger/hate, and death/rebirth, leading again to calm.  The cycles continue until the stars burn out and there is nothing left.  Minotaur was created stereoscopically in Sandde, the world’s first freehand stereoscopic 3D animation software, but is also available in 2D Dome and 360° virtual reality (VR) formats.

With each new day, we engage in rituals that we’ve developed through instinct and years of routine.  Because we have repeated the patterns so many times, we can succumb to a dulled awareness of our surroundings.  It is easy to become unaware that these daily patterns and routines are repeated on every scale in nature and in the lives of all creatures.  All around us there is drama that is constantly unfolding, unseen — paralleling our own rituals, struggles and triumphs.  Every organism plays a role and adds a unique contribution.  There is a certain uniformity in nature’s complexity and our existence is truly a series of interconnected events.

Travel to the microscopic world and discover some of the invisibles that feed on us and make us sick.  Lice, fleas, and mites.  Parasites such as bacteria and worms.  Enjoy them all with fascinatiny cartoon-style images.

This film captures the real-life story of Michael Jordan, the most spectacular athlete of the 20th century and the world’s most recognizable person.  The audience will take a journey into the life of Michael Jordan, experiencing like never before the drama and excitement of Jordan’s basketball career as well as a rare introspective view into Michael off the court.