The Walt Disney Co. has reached an agreement with Imax Corp. to release five pictures on the company’s giant screens, starting with the 3-D eponymous film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol,” the studio announced on Wednesday.

The production, helmed by Robert Zemeckis, will star Jim Carrey and is scheduled to hit theaters on November 9, 2009. Other films may include movies directed by Tim Burton and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

The five pictures will benefit from Imax’s new digital projection system, due to be installed in the company’s large-screen theaters worldwide. Imax intends to convert 50 of its 320 locations worldwide to digital technology by the end of 2008.

The agreement with regard to the five productions to be released in Imax theaters was made public in Singapore, where Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture group prexy Mark Zoradi and other Imax executives are taking part at a 3-D conference.

Imax Filmed Entertainment chair-prexy Greg Foster explained that the two companies’ targets were complementary and that the deal represented an advantage for both enterprises.

Mark Zoradi said that the studio intended to make available 11 films in 3-D over the next couple of years, including Disney’s Pixar movie “UP” in May and the Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer production “G-Force” in July, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Walt Disney Co. also announced recently that it would release a 3-D version of its Academy Award-winning animated movie “Beauty and the Beast” in 2010.