Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) and The Walt Disney Studios
today announced that Disney’s Tomorrowland, in theatres May 22,
2015, and Disney•Pixar’s Inside Out, in theatres June 19, 2015,
will be the first Dolby Vision™ titles to be shown at Dolby Cinema™
locations around the globe. In addition, Disney’s The Jungle Book,
due out April 15, 2016, will also be presented in Dolby Vision,
with more titles to be announced.
Dolby Cinema, featuring Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, is a
premium cinema offering for exhibitors and moviegoers that combines
spectacular image and sound technologies with inspired design to
make every visit a completely captivating cinematic event.
“Dolby is thrilled to collaborate with Disney and Pixar to push
the cinematic boundaries through the powerful combination of Dolby
Vision and Dolby Atmos,” said Kevin Yeaman, President and CEO,
Dolby Laboratories. “Dolby Cinema delivers an unforgettable cinema
experience that transports moviegoers into the heart of the
action.”
Dolby Cinema begins with the filmmaker’s vision—using the full
storytelling capabilities that Dolby offers in image and sound
production to transform the way movies are made. Combined with
state-of-the-art image, sound, and acoustic capabilities, the movie
comes alive to deliver cinema in its purest form.
“The Dolby Cinema experience is a very exciting prospect for
both filmmakers and film fans,” said Brad Bird, director of
Tomorrowland. “Dolby has been so vital to the advancement of cinema
sound, it makes complete sense for them to turn their attention to
enhancing and improving the quality of motion picture images as
well. Our team was delighted to collaborate with Dolby, and we are
proud that Tomorrowland is the first film to be presented in their
stellar new Dolby Vision process. The brightness and clarity of the
images, yet with richness and detail in the blacks—WOW. The picture
quality, especially in 4K laser projection, is nothing short of
stunning.”
Dolby Cinema features the Dolby Vision projection system, which
uses state-of-the-art optics and image processing, to deliver high
dynamic range with enhanced color technology and a contrast ratio
that far exceeds that of any other image technology on the market
today. The result is a richer, more detailed viewing experience
that delivers strikingly vivid and realistic images that make
viewers feel like they are in the movie’s world. Dolby Cinema also
includes the award-winning Dolby sound technology, Dolby Atmos,
which moves audio around the theatre, even overhead, with amazing
richness and depth. Dolby Atmos debuted in 2012 on Disney•Pixar’s
Academy Award® winning Brave.
“Our studio and our filmmakers put so much into creating
high-quality, immersive experiences for audiences, and that
includes using the latest, cutting-edge technology to enhance the
stories we tell,” said Dave Hollis, Executive Vice President,
Theatrical Distribution, The Walt Disney Studios. “Disney has been
a longtime collaborator of Dolby, and we’re excited for the
continued storytelling possibilities that technologies like Dolby
Cinema deliver.”
About Dolby Cinema
Dolby Cinema delivers the total cinema experience. It combines
powerful image and sound technologies with inspired cinema design
to make every visit a completely captivating cinematic event.
Dolby Cinema will include Dolby Vision—a state-of-the-art
authoring and playback imaging technology that enables the cinema
to bring the story alive onscreen. Outfitted with Dolby Atmos, a
Dolby Cinema transports audiences into the movie with
breathtakingly real sound that fills the cinema and flows all
around them.
When these technologies are combined with the sophisticated
Dolby Cinema design, everything comes together to pull moviegoers
more deeply into the story and transform their visit into an event.
For more information, please visit the Dolby Cinema web page.
About Dolby Vision
Dolby Vision delivers a dramatically different visual
experience—astonishing brightness, incomparable contrast, and
captivating color—that brings entertainment to life.
Even though most movies are captured and recorded using
technology that produces the colors and brightness of real life,
much of that richness is lost by the time moviegoers get to watch.
That’s because current cinema color-grading standards are based on
the limitations of current projection technologies and require that
the content be altered to match their display
performance—dramatically reducing the range of colors, brightness,
and contrast.
Dolby Vision changes that, giving creative teams the freedom to
use the full gamut of colors, peak highlights, greater brightness,
and amazing contrast, with the confidence that those will be
reproduced faithfully on cinema screens that feature Dolby
Vision.
About Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos delivers moving audio—sound that can be precisely
placed and moved anywhere in three-dimensional space, including
overhead. It brings entertainment alive all around the audience in
a powerfully immersive and emotive experience.
Since its introduction in the cinema in 2012, Dolby Atmos has
been embraced by all the major Hollywood studios, 11 Academy Award®
winning directors, and 23 Academy Award winning sound mixers, among
others.
To learn more about Dolby Atmos, visit dolby.com/Atmos.
About The Walt Disney Studios
For over 90 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the
foundation on which The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) was built.
Today, the Studio brings quality movies, music, and stage plays to
consumers throughout the world. Feature films are released under
the following banners: Disney, including Walt Disney Animation
Studios and Pixar Animation Studios; Disneynature; Marvel Studios;
Disney|Lucasfilm; and Touchstone Pictures, the banner under which
live-action films from DreamWorks Studios are distributed. The
Disney Music Group encompasses the Walt Disney Records and
Hollywood Records labels, as well as Disney Music Publishing. The
Disney Theatrical Group produces and licenses live events,
including Disney on Broadway, Disney On Ice, and Disney Live!.
About Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) creates audio, video, and voice
technologies that transform entertainment and communications in
mobile devices, at the cinema, at home, and at work. For nearly 50
years, sight and sound experiences have become more vibrant, clear,
and powerful in Dolby®. For more information, please visit
www.dolby.com.
Dolby, Dolby Atmos, and the double-D symbol are registered
trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Dolby Cinema and Dolby Vision are
trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. “Academy Award®” is a trademark
and service mark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
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StudiosJanelle Tipton,
+1-818-560-8011Janelle.L.Tipton@disney.com
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