Under The Sea Splashes Into Fernbank Museum’s IMAX Theatre

Experience the sea and its marvelous marine life in the giant-screen film Under the Sea, returning to the IMAX® Theatre at Fernbank Museum of Natural History from May 25-September 5, 2013. Through the visual majesty of the IMAX® format, audiences are transported to the crystal blue domains of diverse underwater dwellers, including the Leafy Sea Dragon and the Flamboyant Cuttlefish.

Under the Sea journeys to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including South Australia, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Coral Triangle islands of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Audiences experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea. It offers a uniquely inspirational and entertaining way to explore the beauty and natural wonder of the oceans, as well as the impact global climate change has on them.

“Most people will never encounter these creatures face to face in the wild, and IMAX is able to bring audiences as close to swimming alongside them as they’ll ever get,” said producer Toni Myers.

The film is narrated by Jim Carrey. Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Corporation present Under the Sea, which has been rated G for general audiences and has a running time of 40 minutes and 45 seconds. Under the Sea will show at Fernbank Museum from May 25-September 5, 2013.

Fish Face Contest

To celebrate the return of the family-friendly underwater IMAX® adventure Under the Sea, Fernbank Museum is having a “Fish Face” photo contest! Send us your wonderfully wacky, flippingly funny or just plain silly photos showing your best “Fish Face” and you could win one of several great prizes including tickets to see the film, a “Sea to Shore” prize pack from the Museum Store and more.

Contest closes June 30, 2013. Winners will be announced on Fernbank’s Facebook page.

Send your photos to marketing@fernbankmuseum.org or post on Fernbank Museum’s Facebook page. Please read the full contest rules before taking the fish face plunge at www.fernbankmuseum.org.

Ticket and Visitor Information

Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s IMAX Theatre is located at 767 Clifton Road in Atlanta. IMAX tickets are $13 for adults, $12 for students/seniors, $11 for children ages 3-12 years old, $8 for Museum members, and free for children ages 2 and younger. For tickets, please call 404.929.6300 or visit www.fernbankmuseum.org.  

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Get ready for action, adventure, and explosive entertainment like you´ve never seen it before! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to check out Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in IMAX theatres.

Starting December 16th, a full five days before its North American premier, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol will be shown in a mind-blowing IMAX experience in 300 theatres across the country. Join Ethan Hunt and his team of rogue IMF agents, in this awesome spy adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. With 30-minutes of scenes shot with IMAX cameras, fans will be able to enjoy certain sequences of the movie in larger than life proportions. You will be right in the action as Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) scales the world´s tallest building; the Burk Khalifa Tower in Dubai, as this and other thrilling moments expand to fit the entire IMAX screen. As an added bonus, IMAX will offer the first previews of the upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, prior to Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.

Disclaimer: In keeping with the FTC rules I would like to inform you that I received no financial compensation for this post. I received an entry to WIN one of ten exclusive 4-pack of tickets to Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol at your local IMAX theater from the people at MyBlogSpark.

Go Inside the Heart of a Tornado in the Thrilling New IMAX(r) Film Tornado Alley, Opening April 1 at Fernbank Museum

Fernbank Museum places IMAX(r) audiences in the heart of a tornado in the new giant screen film Tornado Alley, opening on Fernbank's five-story IMAX(r) screen on April 1. An explosive giant-screen adventure, Tornado Alley takes viewers on a science-driven epic chase through the "severe weather capital of the world."

Narrated by Bill Paxton (Twister, Titanic), the film follows Storm Chasers star Sean Casey and the scientists of VORTEX2, the largest tornadoresearch project ever assembled, on separate missions to encounter one of Earth's most awe-inspiring events-the birth of a tornado. Whirling above the human drama are the storms themselves. These magnificent forces of nature are revealed in breathtaking detail through the magic of the giant screen.

Filmed across America's Plains states, where three quarters of the world's tornadoes occur, Tornado Alley follows veteran storm chasers on two unprecedented missions.

Carrying a ninety-two-pound IMAX(r) camera that belonged to his father, filmmaker Sean Casey and his crew race after storms in TIV-2, a seven-ton armored "tornado intercept vehicle" engineered and built by Casey to withstand the impact of the gale force winds at a tornado's core. The goal that drives Casey into relentless supercell storms is simple: to navigate the TIV-2 directly into the heart of a tornado and capture its beauty and destructive power on film at point blank range.

Leading researchers Joshua Wurman, Karen Kosiba and Don Burgess, along with the scientists of VORTEX2, are also on a quest to penetrate a tornado's inner workings.

But their methods-and their manpower-are different. The most ambitious scientific mission of its kind, VORTEX2 is comprised of over 100 severe-weather researchers from all over the world. No small feat, their challenge is to coordinate and position their fleet of radar trucks, mobile mesonet vehicles and the most sophisticated weather-measuring instruments ever created, so they literally surround tornadoes and the supercell storms that form them. Like Casey, the VORTEX2 team must
face nature's elemental power on their quest to collect data throughout a tornado's entire lifecycle. Ultimately, their hope is to better predict where and when tornadoes will strike, and provide warnings that give those at risk a few more minutes to protect themselves and their families.

Over the course of Tornado Alley, science begins to reveal the unseen architecture of nature's most elusive weather phenomenon, and viewers, for the first time in film history, are taken straight into the heart of an actual tornado. This unforgettable visual journey tracks the paths of a renegade filmmaker and team of dedicated researchers, two very different kinds of storm chasers whose ultimate goal is nonetheless the same: to unlock the mysteries of Earth's most violent storms.

Tornado Alley is a production of Giant Screen Films and Graphic Films. The film is directed by Sean Casey and co-written by Sean Casey and Paul Novros. Major funding has been provided by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the Giant Dome Theater Consortium.

Tornado Alley shows daily in the IMAX(r) Theatre at Fernbank Museum of Natural History, from April -August 11, 2011. Fernbank Museum is located at 767 Clifton Road in Atlanta.

IMAX(r) film tickets are $13 for adults, $12 for students/seniors, $11 for children and $8 for museum members. (Visitors can add the Museum experience with a Value Pass ticket for only $23 for adults, $21 for students/seniors, and $19 for children-a $7.50 savings over tickets purchased separately.)

Fernbank Museum Of Natural History

Today we finally decided to check out Fernbank. I had seen the signs and had wanted to go for quite some time.

It seems taht Geckos had over taken Ferbnbank and through interactive exhibits we were able to learn a great deal about these amazing small creatures.

We also decided to take in a movie at Fernbank’s IMAX Theatre. We chose Arabia for several reasons and we were not dissappointed. It was a spectacular and extraordinary film.

If it wasn't so darn far from where we live I'd buy a season's pass and go again and again. It was such a great way to spend the day.