![]() The side walls, or Wings to use ScreenX jargon, are installed with a fabric designed to match the brightness and colour of the main screen. The theatre uses Christie projectors for the array. Barco tried something very similar with Escape, before abandoning the multi-screen technology earlier this year. ScreenX however reflects the shoe box design of modern theatres, allowing the viewer to be surrounded on three sides. That involved also involved a trio of screens that curved to create a 146 degree vista. In some ways, ScreenX echoes Cinerama, a theatrical presentation first seen in the Fifties. ![]() ScreenX joins IMAX, Superscreen and 4DX in offering patrons a viewing experience that they simply can’t get at home. The film fan is spoilt for choice when it comes to extreme cinema. Inside CI was invited to the gala premiere to experience prehistoric shark actioner The Meg in ScreenX first hand. Cineworld plans to operate three ScreenX theatres in the UK: at London's 02, Cineworld Speke and the Cineworld Leeds White Rose in September. “We also have a completely different kind of ambience, too.Posted on Saturday, 11th August 2018 by Steve MayĬinema has taken another step toward total immersion, with the launch of ScreenX in the UK.Įxclusive to Cineworld, the panoramic technology engulfs the cinemagoer with a 270 degree view. “The Cineworld screen will be a retro fit with IMAX technology, so the screen won't be as large as ours – and that's our unique selling point. “When IMAX started it was all about the size of the screen but they are moving away from that concept of Image Maximum. “Competition comes along when you know you have got a great product, and hopefully even more people will come along to see what we have to offer. We think we are now as good as IMAX, if not better. Sally Garner, Giant Screen's commercial executive, said: “Our new screen is doing wonderfully and we've just got some new lenses installed to improve the masking and colours even more. ![]() Millennium Point has replaced it with The Giant Screen Cinema, which uses the latest digital technology to maintain the site's ability to claim that it still has the biggest screen – 70ft x 41ft – in the Midlands.Īfter opening with Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin last autumn, The Giant Screen Cinema is currently enjoying back to back success with Avengers Assemble and Ridley Scott's Prometheus. The incredible shrinking IMAX screen - Den of Geek WARNING: AMC theaters are running FAKE IMAX's and charging $5 extra for a slightly bigger screen. If you can go and see Mission Impossible 4 in an IMAX screen, not an IMAX Digital or LieMAX!Īziz is Bored - REBLOG THE fudge OUT OF THIS. If you want this then you have to go to an IMAX screen, but not an IMAX digital. Though, there are scenes in Mission Impossible 4 which were shot with IMAX cameras, which if you see the film in an IMAX screen the film will expand at the top and the bottom (this also happened in The Dark Knight and Transformers 2). The Birmingham Giant screen is a giant screen cinema and well worth visiting, the equivalent of an IMAX Digital screen, and actually a lot bigger than many IMAX digital screens. IMAX Digital is known by many big screen fans as LieMax. If you are in Birmingham then seeing it in the Giant Screen is fun but not necessary, if you live in London get yourself to the BFI and see it in proper IMAX! I went to see Mission Impossible 4 at the new Odeon Swiss Cottage IMAX Digital in London, and it was a LieMax screen, it did not show the extended IMAX scenes and the screen was SMALLER than the Birmingham Giant Screen, peoples heads were in the way and it was much more expensive. The answer is actually a bit more complicated, as there are two types of IMAX: IMAX Digital and traditional IMAX screens.
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