ScreenX (stylized in all caps since 2024) is a panoramic film format which presents films with an expanded, dual-sided, 270-degree screen projected on the walls in a theater.[ Posted Spring 2014.]
As of 2022, the theater technology is installed in 364 screens in 37 countries.
Overview
Like for
IMAX films, to match the length of the entire multi-screen theater, ScreenX films are formatted either during filming in production or converted in
post-production.
A film shot for ScreenX is typically shot with three cameras.
The process is done through scene selecting, archiving, delivering assets, color grading, and mastering before distribution to theaters.
Most ScreenX films are live-action, mostly from Asia, particularly South Korea. Only select animated films are ever produced for the format.
On December 13, 2019, the world's largest ScreenX auditorium was inaugurated at the Màgic Badalona shopping center in Badalona, Spain. It has a capacity of 398 seats.
Ultra 4DX
Ultra 4DX
(formerly 4DX with ScreenX from 2017 to 2019, and 4DX Screen until 2024) is the combination of 4DX and ScreenX film formats which presents films in a multi-screen auditorium with enhanced motion and environmental effects, with an additional fourth-screen projected on the ceiling and the newest 4DX chair models. It debuted in
Yongsan District in 2017, and was internationally unveiled at CinemaCon 2018, and later at CES 2020.
The combined film format is currently operating throughout
territories including
South Korea,
Japan,
China and
India. It later opened its first theater in a non-Asian location at a Les Cinémas Gaumont Pathé theater in
Paris,
France.
It later made its overseas debut at a Cinépolis theater in
Mexico City,
Mexico in March 2020.
Four-sided ScreenX
CGV, in collaboration with its subsidiary CJ 4DPlex, opened the world's first four-sided ScreenX theater at the CGV Yongsan Park Mall in South Korea on January 24, 2025. In addition to the front, left, and right screens standard for the ScreenX format, it also has a screen on the ceiling. It is also the first ScreenX theater in South Korea to feature Dolby Atmos sound technology, offering a more immersive and rich sound experience. In addition, all seats are equipped with recliners, allowing use of the four-sided screen with a wider field of view.
Reception
Box office
Since 2018, ScreenX technology has been successful at worldwide box offices, following the successful panoramic release of
Marvel Studios's
Black Panther.
It has grossed a combined total of over $40 million throughout the year through films released in the panoramic format.
In 2022, ScreenX achieved even more box office success, with as the highest-grossing release.
Awards
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2018: 'ScreenX' won the 2018 ShowEast "Innovator of the Year" award.
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2018: '4DX with ScreenX' won the Silver Prize at the 2018 Edison Awards for "Media, Visual Communications & Entertainment".
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2019: 'ScreenX' won "Technology of the Year" at the 2019 Cinema Technology Community Awards.
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2019: '4DX with ScreenX' won the iResearch Award for "Originative Cinema Technology".
Films
See also
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