Discover a new kind of Star Trek adventure available only in Barco Escape, with select sequences ofStar Trek Beyondfootage created to dramatically expand the Universe across three screens. A new trailer has arrived, which shows off the Barco Escape format, an immersive Panoramic experience that is truly unlike anything else you will experience this summer. While the footage may be familiar from previous trailers and teasers, you haven’t seen it quite like this!
The Barco Escape will allow fans to watch certain scenes fromStar Trek 3across three screens all at one time. This is one of the first movies to try out this new format, and now you can experience what it might be like to purchase that ticket. Granted, the immersive technology is surely dwarfed by your computer screen or whatever mobile device you may currently be plugged into. But you get the idea!
The Barco Escape format was created by a Belgian company hoping to join the ranks of IMAX and 3D with its own unique enchanted in-theater experience. It uses three projectors and two additional screens which are angled precisely to create a near panoramic view for the audience.Star Trek Beyondfans will be able to view it in Barco Escape mode throughout the U.S. this summer. To find out if there is a theater near you,click here. There are currently theaters in California, Idaho, Minnesota, Texas and Washington ready to show Star Trek in the Barco Escape format.
Star Trek Beyond, the highly anticipated next installment in Paramount’s globally popularStar Trek series, created byGene Roddenberryand reintroduced byJ.J. Abramsin 2009, returns with directorJustin Lin(The Fast and the Furiousfranchise) at the helm of this epic voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her intrepid crew. InStar Trek 3, the Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test. The movie comes as the franchise celebrates the50th Anniversaryof the originalStar Trekseries, which debuted in the fall of 1966.
It has been confirmed thatStar Trek Beyondwill be set during theU.S.S. Enterprise’s five-year mission to explore new worlds. 2009’sStar Trektook in $257.7 million at the domestic box office and $385.6 million worldwide, with the 2013 follow-upStar Trek Into Darknesstaking in $228.7 million domestically and $467.3 million worldwide. We’ll have to wait and see ifStar Trek Beyondcan out-gross its predecessors this summer. It certainly won’t be an easy task, though since this sci-fi thriller will have plenty of competition in mid-July.
Star Trek Beyondwill be going up against Warner Bros.' thrillerLights Outand 20th Century Fox’s animated sequelIce Age: Collision Coursein theaters on July 22. It will also be sandwiched between two more highly-anticipated movies, Sony’sGhostbusterson July 15 and Universal’sJason Bourneon July 29. It’s too early to tell how well these movies will fare at the box office, but the anticipation forStar Trek Beyondonly seems to be getting bigger and bigger, after the release of the new trailer last week.
Paramount Pictures and Skydance’sStar Trek Beyondis a Bad Robot, Sneaky Shark, Perfect Storm Entertainment production. The film starsChris PineasCaptain Kirk,Zachary Quintoas Spock,Zoë Saldanaas Uhura,Karl Urbanas Bones,John Choas Sulu,Simon Peggas Scotty,Anton Yelchinas Chekov andIdris Elbaas the new villain Krall. Directed byJustin Lin, the third film in the franchise series is produced byJ.J. Abrams,Roberto Orci,Lindsey WeberandLin; and executive produced byJeffrey Chernov,David Ellison,Dana Goldberg, andTommy Harper. Based upon theStar TrekTV series created byGene Roddenberry, the screenplay is written byPegg&Doug Jung. Take a look at the immersive Barco Experience. Is this the next big thing in immersive theater experiences?
