-Imagica Scanners Used on 5 Award Winning Films & 7 Award Nominees Total-

IMAGICA Corp., the industry leader in film scanners, announced that its scanners were used to scan the following Academy Award(R) winning films: The Sea Inside, which won Best Foreign Film, Spider-Man 2, which won Best Visual Effects, The Aviator, Finding Neverland, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the latter three winning in a variety of categories.

In addition, IMAGICA scanners were used on The Village and The Passion of the Christ, which were also nominated for Academy Awards(R).

IMAGICA scanners have been used on such films as National Treasure, Ocean's Twelve, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Van Helsing, The Day After Tomorrow, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, America's Heart and Soul, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and many others.

Mr. Makoto Tsukada, Director of the Engineering Solutions Division at IMAGICA, says, "We congratulate the Academy Award(R) winners. IMAGICA scanners are in wide use worldwide, and are an integral part of the post-production process. We're pleased that our scanners, known for their speed and high quality, were used to scan films of the caliber of those that won Academy Awards(R)."

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About IMAGICA Cor
IMAGICA Corp., Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1935, is one of the largest post-production facilities in Japan, and a leader in the entertainment industry in providing the best solutions for digital intermediate and digital cinema productions.

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