'Star Trek Beyond' first film to open on first multi-screen theatre in Canada

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'Star Trek Beyond' first film to open on first multi-screen theatre in Canada

By Steve Tilley, Postmedia Network
First posted: Thursday, July 07, 2016 01:08 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, July 07, 2016 04:02 PM EDT
Surround sound in movies is old hat. But surround vision? That’s something new.

Three Cineplex movie theatres – in Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver – will be the first in Canada to feature Barco Escape, a three-screen format that gives movie fans a super-wide panoramic perspective of the action.

In Barco-equipped cinemas, a pair of angled screens flank the main screen at the front of the auditorium, each with its own projector. Star Trek Beyond, premiering July 22, will be the first film to be shown in the Barco format, with about 20 minutes of footage stretching across all three screens.

“When you’re on the bridge of the Enterprise, you might see additional coverage of the bridge,” producer and visual effects head Ben Rosenblatt told The Hollywood Reporter in a recent interview.

“Or you might see the Enterprise coming across the screen – and maybe you’ll see more and the attacking forces,” said Rosenblatt.

The Scotiabank Theatres in Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver will each feature one Barco-equipped auditorium, Cineplex said. Prices for Barco Escape movies will be $5 more than a standard ticket.

Along with big-screen formats like UltraAVX and Imax and the super-surround sound of Dolby Atmos, the relatively new Barco technology is the latest initiative by movie exhibitors to draw filmgoers back into cinemas. Later this year, Cineplex will open its first Canadian 4DX theatre in Toronto, featuring seats that pitch and tilt with the action on the screen, along with wind effects, water spray and even scents.

While some Barco films will be adapted to include a handful of scenes that fill all three screens, Need for Speed director Scott Waugh’s upcoming thriller 6 Below, starring Josh Hartnett, will be the first feature film shot entirely in the three-screen format. As well, Canadian production company Minds Eye Entertainment is co-producing six sci-fi, action and thriller movies for the super-wide format.

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Cineplex to Open First Barco Escape Theaters in Canada - Hollywood Reporter
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3 I-MAX screens with a clear floor ant full motion seats?? I'll take two seats for two weeks.

 

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John Cho's Sulu Star Trek's first gay character
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First posted: Thursday, July 07, 2016 03:33 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, July 07, 2016 04:43 PM EDT
John Cho’s Star Trek character will make history when he reveals he’s gay in Star Trek Beyond.
Hikaru Sulu’s private details will be revealed in the new sequel and fans will discover he’s a father to a young daughter with his partner.
John can’t wait for Trekkers to see the film and he is grateful moviemakers did not make a big deal of his character’s sexuality.
“I liked the approach, which was not to make a big thing out it, which is where I hope we are going as a species, to not politicize one’s personal orientations,” Cho says.
According to the Herald Sun, writer Simon Pegg and director Justin Lin’s decision to make Sulu gay was a nod to George Takei, who previously played the character and is openly-gay in real life.
During George’s time on the TV series in the 1960s, his co-star William Shatner made headlines when he became the first TV series regular to share an interracial kiss with castmate Nichelle Nichols, but he knew his sexuality would never be accepted.
Last year, the 79-year-old explained he had to keep it a secret.
“If I wanted to work as an actor I had to keep it a secret,” Takei told News Corp last year. “Back then I couldn’t marry a white person - that was against the law here, miscegenation. But now I am married to a white dude, so we have changed.”
Takei publicly ‘came out’ in 2005 and he wed his longtime partner Brad Altman in 2008.
Meanwhile, John Co’s Star Trek co-star Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the franchise, is also openly gay. He ‘came out’ in 2011 and has been in a relationship with model and artist Miles McMillan since 2013.
John Cho plays Sulu in the new Star Trek movies. (Handout)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO-lz2erBQ0
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bones couldn't cure this pestilence? :shock:

 

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George Takei: Gay Sulu is 'really unfortunate'
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First posted: Friday, July 08, 2016 10:23 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, July 08, 2016 11:01 AM EDT
Gay rights activist George Takei has attacked filmmakers behind the new Star Trek sequel for making his old character a homosexual.
Hikaru Sulu’s private details will be revealed in the new film and fans will discover the character, now played by John Cho, is a father to a young daughter with his gay partner.
Cho liked the idea and he has saluted moviemakers for not making a big deal of his character’s sexuality, but Takei, who played Sulu on TV and in the early Star Trek movies is not a fan, insisting the decision to make the USS Enterprise’s third officer gay is not what creator Gene Roddenberry would have wanted.
The actor, who announced he was gay in 2005, tells The Hollywood Reporter, “I’m delighted that there’s a gay character. Unfortunately, it’s a twisting of Gene’s creation, to which he put in so much thought. I think it’s really unfortunate.”
Takei reveals Cho called him to reveal the news their character would ‘come out’ in Star Trek Beyond and he attempted the new Sulu to convince filmmakers to reconsider.
“I told him, ‘Be imaginative and create a character who has a history of being gay, rather than Sulu, who had been straight all this time, suddenly being revealed as being closeted’,” George says.
He also spoke to director Justin Lin, adding, “I said, ‘This movie is going to be coming out on the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, the 50th anniversary of paying tribute to Gene Roddenberry, the man whose vision it was carried us through half a century. Honour him and create a new character. I urged them. He left me feeling that that was going to happen.
“I really tried to work with these people when at long last the issue of gay equality was going to be addressed. I thought after that conversation with Justin that was going to happen.”
Star Trek Beyond hits cinemas later this month.
George Takei. (WENN.COM)

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J.J. Abrams: 'Star Trek' won't replace Anton Yelchin

By Jim Slotek, Postmedia Network First posted: Thursday, July 14, 2016 05:30 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, July 14, 2016 06:49 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES - With the imminent release of Star Trek Beyond - the third of the J.J. Abrams era of Trek films – a fourth is already, “100% yes,” says producer Abrams.
But what happens to the character of Ensign Pavel Chekhov, following the freakish auto mishap that killed 27-year-old actor Anton Yelchin a month ago?
In an exclusive Postmedia interview, Abrams said the filmmakers have begun talks on dealing with his loss in the script. But one thing that is certain is that Chekhov will not be recast.
“I would say there’s no replacing him. There’s no recasting. I can’t possibly imagine that, and I think Anton deserves better,” Abrams said.
In Star Trek Beyond, directed by Justin Lin, Yelchin’s character gets his most screen time thus far, as an encounter with a malevolent alien swarm forces the Enterprise crew to abandon ship and survive on a planet in small teams - Chekhov and Captain Kirk (Christopher Pine) among them.
We have testimonials to Yelchin from Pine and other Star Trek cast that are to come.
Meanwhile, Abrams says, “We knew going into this movie it would be a bit of a heartbreak just because of Leonard (Nimoy, the original Spock, who died as Star Trek beyond was in pre-production, and whose death is noted in the plot). We had no idea just how devastating events would become.”
Is the character of Chekov himself going to be killed off? “I have thought about it, we’re working on it, and it’s too early to talk about it,” he said.
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[B00Mer]

Wanna see that movies.. amazing.

 

[Danbones]

ah, the future...
they say most won't even know reality has been replaced

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Trek geeks.

The only reason Canadians are so big on Star Trek is because of Shatner. Who proved that for a Canadian, the only way to succeed is to pretend to be American.