March 19, 2005
A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano
By CORNELIA DEAN
The fight over evolution has reached the big, big screen.
Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to
show movies that mention the subject - or the Big Bang or the geology of
the earth - fearing protests from people who object to films that
contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures.
The number of theaters rejecting such films is small, people in the
industry say - perhaps a dozen or fewer, most in the South. But because
only a few dozen Imax theaters routinely show science documentaries, the
decisions of a few can have a big impact on a film's bottom line - or a
producer's decision to make a documentary in the first place.
People who follow trends at commercial and institutional Imax theaters say
that in recent years, religious controversy has adversely affected the
distribution of a number of films, including "Cosmic Voyage," which depicts
the universe in dimensions running from the scale of subatomic particles to
clusters of galaxies; "Galápagos," about the islands where Darwin theorized
about evolution; and "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," an underwater epic about
the bizarre creatures that flourish in the hot, sulfurous emanations from
vents in the ocean floor...."
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http://www.ElmerFudd.US/ http://www.notserver.com/
Scientology crooks: http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/otiii-gif.html
Scientology murder: http://PerkinsTragedy.org
Improving the herd: http://www.rightard.org/
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