The Force Awakens at the new Gateway Dolby Atmos Cinema

I can't say that I am a die-hard fan of the Star Wars saga. However after seeing the previous six episodes a few days back, I am definitely looking forward to seeing the latest installment. I am ecstatic that I was able to see it at one of the latest and most innovative cinemas in the country today. It was truly a one of a kind experience!

Packed evening at the advanced press screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at Gateway Mall's Dolby Atmos Cinema

The Star Wars: The Force Awakens was indeed the perfect movie to mark the grand launch of the biggest Dolby Atmos Cinema. Featuring a revolutionary audio platform that creates powerful, moving audio using audio objects and overhead speakers, Gateway Mall’s Dolby Atmos Cinema boasts of sounds that come from all directions, the dialogue and music of the onscreen story move all around the audience in three-dimensional space, transporting them into the scenes and putting them in the middle of the action.

3D sounds and comfy and spacious seats! Definitely the best movie experience!

Compared to regular theatres, Dolby Atmos Cinema has the most number of speakers with a 53.5 sound system (53 individual surround channels and 5 subwoofers). Each speaker is powered independently and gets its own separate audio feed. In effect, the movement of every sound in the scene is reproduced in all three dimensions. 

The Dolby Atmos technology gives content creators unprecedented control of the placement and movement of sound within the movie theatre. Sounds can be placed and moved anywhere in the cinema’s three-dimensional space. The Dolby Atmos Cinema processor then determines which of a cinema’s huge array of front, back, side, and overhead speakers it will use to recreate this lifelike movement. With sounds coming from all directions, the cinema is filled with astonishing clarity, richness, detail, and depth. This creates a multidimensional sound system that makes audiences feel as if they are inside the film and not just watching it.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the seventh installment in the Star Wars film series and the first to be directed by J.J. Abrams. Set around 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi, the sequel follows the adventures of new lead characters Finn (John Boyega), Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) as they join forces with original characters Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) to fight Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and his broadsword lightsaber. The film also features Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, and Lupita Nyong’o as Maz Kanata. 

Matching ootd with #Stormtrooper! 💜 Finally saw #StarWars #TheForceAwakens at the #GatewayDolbyAtmosCinema. 👍 #DolbyAtmos #GatewayAtmosCinema

A photo posted by Mish (@mishrendon) on Dec 16, 2015 at 7:13am PST

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XO, Mish

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