300: Rise of an Empire

IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Warner Bros. Pictures, a division of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), today announced that they have agreed to release up to 20 Warner Bros. films in the immersive IMAX Experience® over the next three years, in an extension of the core partnership that began in 2003.

Warner Bros' followup to the 2006 Frank Miller created and Zack Snyder directed film 300 has now entered production in preparation for theatrical release next year.

The Snow White and the Huntsman star will play teenage warrior Calisto, a central character to the plot of the tangential sequel to Zack Snyder's 300.

Although the upcoming sequel to the hit Warner Bros comic book adaptation 300 has yet to find it's central hero, the project is still moving forward and currently eyeing the Casino Royale and Camelot actress.

Producer Bernie Goldmann has revealed that the upcoming sequel which is based on the upcoming graphic novel (Xerxes) by Frank Miller will include a small part for returning cast-members of the hit 300, which was directed by Man of Steel helmer Zack Snyder.

The sequel to the $456 million grossing R-rated hit is now newly christened under the moniker of its predecessor. With Zack Snyder busy with Man of Steel, newcomer Noam Murro and Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown) are being sought to direct.