Immersive Entertainment

We Kill Death An Immersive First

Thu, 09/15/2016 - 11:51 -- Nick Dager

In what could be the most immersive movie experience ever, producers Alex A. Ginzburg and Tony Lee of Let It Play have announced a partnership with 4DX and ScreenX that will make their recently announced film We Kill Death the first feature film produced specifically for each of the two immersive cinema technology formats. We Kill Death focuses on YouTube stars Mustang Wanted, Oleg Cricket and the duo of Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov, who are familiar to millions of viewers around the world for their imaginative and death-defying stunts and adventures.

Tags: 
CJ 4DPlex 4DX
CJ 4DPlex ScreenX

Guitammer, Lumiere Expand Partnership

Thu, 09/08/2016 - 11:14 -- Nick Dager

The Guitammer Company’s Beijing, China-based partner, Lumiere Pavilions has installed more than 4,600 Buttkicker-enabled seats across China. Lumiere recently placed a new order with Guitammer that covers 818 additional seats, which are all LD equipment upgrades to its current Guiyang, Beijing Qiaofu and Nanjing Hongyang theaters.

AMC, Dolby Accelerate Development Plans

Mon, 08/08/2016 - 13:18 -- Nick Dager

In response to what they say has been impressive guest reaction and the overwhelming success of Dolby Cinema at AMC in its first full year, Dolby Laboratories and AMC Theatres today announced plans to accelerate Dolby Cinema at AMC installations to 100 operational sites by the end of 2017, seven years ahead of the originally announced schedule. The original agreement, reached in 2015, was for 100 auditoriums over a 10-year deployment.

Tags: 
Dolby Cinema

4DX Expands Reach Throughout Japan

Mon, 08/08/2016 - 11:07 -- Nick Dager

Seven new 4DX immersive seating auditoriums have opened in Japan through partnerships between CJ CGV subsidiary CJ 4DPlex, Aeon Cinemas, United Cinemas and 109 Cinemas. 4DX recently released two highly anticipated Japanese titles, One Piece Film Gold and Shin Godzilla and received positive responses in Japanese box office. For the first screening weekend, One Piece Film Gold and Shin Godzilla represented 75 percent and 59 percent occupancy rate, respectively.

Tags: 
CJ 4DPlex 4DX

CJ4DPlex Opens Serbia’s First 4DX Theatre

Mon, 08/01/2016 - 14:02 -- Nick Dager

CJ 4DPlex has opened the first 4DX theater in Serbia through a partnership with CineStar Cinemas. The theater is located at CineStar Novi Sad inside the shopping center Big. The 4DX theater opened on July 15 with showings of Ice Age: Collision Course and The Legend of Tarzan. The theatre recorded over 90 percent capacity in the 4DX seats on their first weekend.

Shanghai Film Corporation Signs with CJ 4DPlex

Mon, 08/01/2016 - 13:54 -- Nick Dager

CJ 4DPlex has signed with Shanghai Film Corporation one of the top multiplex operators in China to expand 4DX to more than 20 screens within three years. SFC, a state-owned company, is a film production company that also distributes, exhibits movies and has studios, cinema chains. It currently operates some 300 screens at 40 locations in the East China region.

Audiences Upbeat About LightVibes

Thu, 06/30/2016 - 13:19 -- Nick Dager

More than 80 percent of the moviegoers who have experienced Philips LightVibes had a positive response, according to a recent survey conducted by the company. The news was part of a presentation that Niels Van Duinen, general manager of Philips LightVibes gave earlier this month at CineEurope in Barcelona. The news was included in remarks that Van Duinen made at the Event Cinema Association’s reception. He was giving those present an update about Philips LightVibes Surround Cinema Lighting news and developments since the group’s last gathering at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.

Tags: 
Philips LightVibes Surround Cinema Lighting

Shaking Up the Ad Business

Wed, 06/29/2016 - 15:37 -- Al Caudullo

There is a huge push for haptic advertising. Simply put, to add nuanced tactile effects to simulate a realistic feeling to 360 virtual reality content: the shaking of a martini glass in a Stoli ad; the power of the engine in a Peugeot ad and the flickering of lights in the American Poltergeist trailer. These are a few of the ways that haptic advertising has been utilized using Immersion’s Touchsense Design Cloud. Starting in 2014, Stoli was the first to break the ice, so to speak, with the first tactile ad. Now 554 mobile apps and 481 tablet apps on the Opera Mediaworks network have the capability to run haptic ads. These ads have the potential to reach 14.9 million total impressions, 4.2 million unique viewers

Tags: 
Immersion Touchsense Design Cloud

Mars Cinema Group Adds D-Box Seating in Time for Bourne

Wed, 06/29/2016 - 15:23 -- Nick Dager

ECCO Cine Supply and Service has reached an agreement with Turkish exhibitor Mars Cinema Group to install and service D-Box Technologies cinematic motion systems in two multiplex theatres in Istanbul. Under the agreement, ECCO will deliver a total of 80 D-Box motion seats to Cinemaximum Akbati, located in the up-and-coming northeast neighborhood of Instanbul, and Cinemaximum Akasya, situated in the university district on the Asian side.

Pages

Subscribe to Immersive Entertainment