The Crown Prince of IMAX
Claudia Koerner of The Orange County Register has a nice little Q&A with Greg MacGillivray, the 65-year-old Laguna Beach resident who recently became the first documentary filmmaker to cross the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office.
MacGillivray Freeman Films have made 35 large-format films for IMAX, led by the 1998 multi-protagonist docudrama Everest, which has grossed $145 million. MacGillivray (pictured, with wife Barbara) says he has never felt the urge to move the 25-person company he founded in the 1960’s with the late Jim Freeman away from the OC.
Explains MacGillivray:
I’m a family person.
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