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IMAX Entertainment President, Megan Colligan is stepping down:

Here’s the be aware to employees from Imax CEO Rich Gelfond:

I’m writing to let you already know that Megan Colligan, our President of IMAX Entertainment, has determined to maneuver on from IMAX. Megan will stick with the corporate by way of the tip of April — serving to see us by way of a busy interval that features our annual CEO Forum, CinemaCon, and our first quarter earnings report — whereas we full a seek for her substitute. 

The 4 years that Megan has been with us have been among the many most unusual and difficult within the historical past of IMAX. Her advocacy for the model is among the many many causes IMAX didn’t simply survive the pandemic; we’re thriving — poised for a document yr of field workplace and vital community development throughout our expansive world footprint.

Megan helped create our Filmed For IMAX digicam program, which continues to deliver a brand new, various assortment of filmmakers in our fold.  On Megan’s watch, IMAX additional expanded into native language blockbusters and strengthened its partnerships with unbiased studios, placing the ability of our platform behind their movies. And, after all, Megan helped launch our IMAX Live technique, which we proceed to check throughout our greater than 250 related areas worldwide.

Megan is a real lover of movie, and that zeal has at all times proven by way of in her time right here — whether or not she was working with filmmakers, creating new IMAX experiences, strategizing round our movie slate, or decoding field workplace outcomes. Through her work with the Academy’s Board of Governors and past, I do know she’s going to proceed to be a optimistic drive on this enterprise, and I stay up for seeing what she does subsequent.

I hope you’ll be a part of me in thanking Megan for her contributions to IMAX and wishing her all the most effective of luck in her subsequent chapter.

Best,

Rich