

The side walls became the left and right of the car, with buildings, vehicles, and vicious robots zipping past. In one short, the audience was put in the driver’s seat during a car chase. They were light-colored and smooth, perfect for the projectors to flash images upon them that extended the aspect ratio out beyond the ends of the front screen and back into the theater. Unlike a standard theater, the walls were not covered with dark paint or sound-muffling carpet. That is until the lights went down.Īhead of the movie, a five-minute demonstration played, which was made up of three shorts intended to show how ScreenX displays differently. And it didn’t look discernibly different from any other theater. The theater at the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 was small with stadium seating.

After taking off in South Korea, this curious gimmick is coming to the US, branching out with Regal theaters in New York and San Francisco with the release of Warner Bros.’s The Nun.Īt a special screening in Manhattan, I sat down to watch the latest film in the Conjuring series in ScreenX.
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But the latest amped up cinema experience is ScreenX, a “panoramic 270-degree cinematic format” that aims to immerse audiences into the world of the movie like never before.
