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Once a 4DX experience is finalized, the encoded instructions are wirelessly distributed to the company’s auditoriums around the world. Instead, each one is meticulously curated through a weeks-long process in Korea to align with and enhance the content on the big screen.Įach year, the group creates 4DX experiences for more than 30 American productions, along with 40 more titles from China, Korea and other local markets. But a 4DX experience isn’t a matter of sensory overload.

4DX THEATER NYC FULL

With so many instruments inside each auditorium, it might be easy to simply crank everything up and put the room on full blast. They call it ‘the back kicker,’” Kim laughs. The bells and whistles of a 4DX auditorium include wind machines, strobe lights, snow simulation (it’s foam), smoke scents and a device inside the seats that thrusts into the shoulders of audience members. “We have what we officially call the three degrees of freedom - our chairs move with the pitch (a forward-and-backward rolling motion), the yaw (a left-and-right turning motion) and the heave (an up-and-down elevating motion),” explains Paul Kim, SVP of content and production at CJ 4DPlex. “Then there’s the vibrations and then we have 21 different effects across all of our equipment.” Those who decide to see the film in 4DX will experience each movement onscreen as a motion in their seats, which shake and wobble to the rhythm of the action.

Over the course of “Bullet Train,” Pitt will get socked, stabbed, chucked and chased as he untangles a complicated web of conflicting hit jobs.

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