Canada Place Revitalization
 

They should make an attraction similar OzTrek at the Sydney tower. Australia is a huge country and most tourist don't go beyond New South Wales. This interactive media adventure give visitors an over view of the whole country. I did it last year when I was in Australia and it was really cool.

http://www.sydneytower.com.au/oztrek.html

This sounds really promising. I'm impressed with the idea.

The idea of a BC "OzTrek" production showing in a new Imax - at least part of the time - would be great as well.

I really like the idea of Cirque Du Soleil setting up shop there. It would be a really great location. And it would be interesting to see what kind of show they would come up with for Vancouver.

Agreed, a space for any kind of high-quality alternative performance theatre would be great. This area is owed an arts facility, since the land planned for the Coal Harbour Arts Centre was 'expropriated' of sorts, for the expanded VCEC, if you remember. Perhaps the city would plough some of the money set aside for that into improving and expanding this facility, even to help with programming costs?

ah no more IMAX for downtown a real loss now that so many movies are also coming in an IMAX version and/or 3D IMAX

Doesn't actually play any Hollywood movies that people might want to watch, though.

Have to go all the way out to Richmond for that.

Might be why it's going away, actually...!

they played some - i know my friend saw something there once - its extremely rare though - i think it was batman he saw there

Isn't the star screen in the HR Macmillan Centre an IMAX? If they started showing big Hollywood films there, they might actually have some customers.

Hmm, if they played Batman it wasn't when it first opened. It seems a bit pointless to have an IMAX theater that doesn't play mainstream IMAX movies.

The only IMAX I'm aware of near Vancouver that does is SilverCity Riverport
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&sourc...h&z=11&iwloc=B

That's where I had to go to see the Dark Knight :P

Langley has IMAX too - I go there - going on Friday to see Night At The Museum

i feel ripped off i went to the imax website and they show star trek...i go to see whats playing and langley the only thing i could find was a siting saying its the aliens vs monsters movie

Personally, I'd love to have both IMAX and Cirque....it's a shame the expansion to Canada Place's cruise ship facilities were occupied with office (presumably for the port?).

As much as I'd love to see the Cirque, I love the IMAX as well.

But the Port only took the space because they couldn't find a tenant for the space! It sat empty for quite some time.

I had the same experience here in Calgary. The local IMAX theatre at Chinook Centre that typically plays all of the blockbuster movies (Harry Potter, Dark Knight) isn't playing Star Trek for some reason, even though IMAX theatres in the U.S. are.

Whenever I've gone to the IMAX theatre at Canada Place it's always been fairly busy, so I don't know if the threatre is struggling financially or not. Where else can you go to see a 3D movie these days?

Yeah I've been looking into Star Trek showing on IMAX but no dice in our two local IMAX. Why aren't BC's IMAX playing the heavy-special effects Star Trek when every IMAX in the US are !?

There aren't enough prints of the film to go around.

they got them in ontario

maybe it will come here later

they played batman 2 for months after the regular release at the IMAX in langley

There seemed to be enough to prints for Dark Knight and Harry Potter.

:(

It will probably just take a while.

We have had all the big blockbusters in Imax here in Halifax. I just saw Star Trek.