Toronto: Tatiana Maslany-Voiced Animated ‘Butterfly Story’ Flies to ScreenX Format Launch (Unique)

Pink Parrot Media has secured a ScreenX format launch for the 3D animated household function Butterfly Story, which is voiced by Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany and Mena Massoud (Aladdin).

Korea’s CJ 4DPLEX and Canadian producer Carpe Diem partnered to indicate the animated function within the 270-degree panoramic ScreenX format in North America and internationally. The producers insist Butterfly Story is the primary 3D animated function to be made within the ScreenX format from the pre-production stage.

Director Sophie Roy mentioned challenges in making an animated ScreenX movie included digicam work and lighting. “Protecting the horizon equal all through the three screens when the digicam tilts was particularly tough and matching the sunshine path on all three screens took some critical work to make all of it look seamless, an actual problem, however the outcomes exceeded our expectations,” Roy mentioned in a press release.

ScreenX is a multi-projection theater know-how developed in South Korea that permits a panoramic, 270-degree movie-watching expertise. It makes use of a proprietary system to develop the middle display screen picture to the aspect partitions, surrounding audiences with imagery and offering a way of being contained in the film.

Pink Parrot Media will signify the animated function — a co-production between Canada’s Carpe Diem and Germany’s Ulysses Filmproduktion — for gross sales on the Toronto Movie Pageant. Directed by Roy from a script by Heidi Foss and Lienne Sawatsky, the lead characters are voiced by Maslany as Jennifer and Massoud as Patrick.

Set in opposition to the backdrop of the good Monarch butterfly migration, the movie has Patrick as a one-winged butterfly stowaway in a milkweed trailer who finally ends up on a journey with a goofy caterpillar named Marty and Jennifer as a butterfly who’s afraid of heights. Patrick will change into an unlikely hero, however first should face his concern, embrace his uniqueness and overcome adversity, which incorporates three evil birds bent on revenge

The soundtrack consists of the music “One thing Large,” carried out by Shawn Mendes. Marie-Claude Beauchamp and Emely Christians share the producer credit.  

In addition to a Canadian launch from Oct. 13 through Vortex, Butterly Story has been offered by Pink Parrot Media to Wildbunch (Germany and France), Monolith (Poland), Entrance Row (Center East), Filmart (Turkey), Mis Label (Scandinavia), Simply Ent (Benelux), Professional Movie (Bulgaria), Blitz (Former Yugoslavia), Flins & Piniculas (Spain), Forefront Media (South Africa) and High Movie (CIS and Baltics).

CJ 4DPLEX is headquartered in Seoul with worldwide workplaces in Los Angeles and Beijing. The corporate has created immersive movie applied sciences — together with multisensory 4DX, ScreenX and 4DX with ScreenX — for theaters worldwide.