World’s Biggest Movie Screen
Posted by Rodneyon 01. 07. 2008in News Chat
We have news regarding the Japanese premier of Speed Racer on the world’s largest screen thanks to the professionals at Variety.
“Speed Racer” set a record of sorts when it preemed in Japan on June 29 on the world’s biggest screen.
The Japan preem at Tokyo Dome attracted 20,000 fans — a disappointment given organizers’ 35,000 target — but those who braved drenching rains saw the pic on a 17.5-meter high, 40-meter wide temporary screen made in the UK, shipped from Canada and lifted into place by seven cranes.
A screen of that size would be an amazing think to behold. I would kill to see the Empire Strikes Back on a screen like that. The AT AT walkers would be huge and the Hoth battle would be a sprawling horizon of snowy violence!
Having a screen like this assembled is a great idea for a premier. It sucks that the arena wasn’t rammed to capacity. Even if Speed Racer isn’t your cup of tea – it would be worth seeing the event for the screen alone!
International friends – what films would you go ga ga for on a screen this size?
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I agree with you Doug, seeing the original Star Wars trilogy on that giant screen would be amazing!
I would wanna watch the whole Alien Saga on that screen. That would be fantastic.
There is no movie I would rather see on a huge screen than Speed Racer.
Ben Hur
Superman the movie
Star Trek II
And pretty much every other good movie i’ve ever seen; i love ma big screens.
300
Wall-E a great masterpiece of animation film.
Bengies Drive-In in Baltimore has a screen about that size… open every weekend!
It would be hard to watch the alien saga since the director decided to make all the lights flash constantly in the spaceship to create some sort of ‘realism’ to the chaos surrounding Weaver, the audience would either have their eyes explode or begin having seizures.
actually the world biggest screen is the LG IMAX theatre, located in sydney, australia.
it is 36m wide and 29m high.