ScreenX was developed in South Korea in 2013, as a new type of immersive cinema format. The ScreenX system uses multiple projectors to fill the viewer’s peripheral vision by projecting images onto the walls on the left and right sides of the screen during some scenes. The technology was first demonstrated in Kim Jee-woon’s short film The X (더 엑스).
Since then, numerous South Korean and Hollywood films have been shown in the ScreenX format, though the ScreenX versions have all been created in-house by ScreenX themselves, using B-roll or CGI outpainting to produce the extra footage required for the peripheral images. The film studios were not involved in this retrofitting process.
Since then, numerous South Korean and Hollywood films have been shown in the ScreenX format, though the ScreenX versions have all been created in-house by ScreenX themselves, using B-roll or CGI outpainting to produce the extra footage required for the peripheral images. The film studios were not involved in this retrofitting process.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the new film by Destin Daniel Cretton, marks the first time that ScreenX footage has been captured during a regular film shoot, integrating ScreenX into the production process from the start in an attempt to relaunch the format. (The closest equivalent is perhaps Christopher Nolan’s use of an IMAX 70mm camera for selected scenes in The Dark Knight, and Cretton has similarly used ScreenX cameras for only selected sequences.)