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IMAX, Warner Bros. Pictures Invite UK Fans To Experience INTERSTELLAR Through OCULUS RIFT
Warner Bros. Pictures has partnered with IMAX on a first-of-its-kind Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) experience for Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film INTERSTELLAR, which will be available free of charge for any fan who queues at the BFI IMAX for one day only on Friday October 24, ahead of the film’s IMAX release on November 7.
Following huge fanfare here in the U.S., where it launched earlier this month, the Oculus Rift DK2 will transport users into the breathtaking universe from the film’s Endurance ship, giving UK fans a virtual first look at the new film through an incredibly immersive experience.
Users will sit down, strap in, and travel in the film’s Endurance spacecraft in zero gravity with a custom Oculus Rift DK2, the first time an Oculus experience like this has been made available for the general public to attend.
The first 200 visitors through the door at the BFI IMAX on Friday, October 24, will also receive a special spacesuit patch, inspired by the one worn by the crew of the Endurance in “INTERSTELLAR”.
The public can experience the exhibit free of charge on a first come-first served basis. The exhibit will be open from 11:00am – 9:00 p.m.
Pre-booked slots for the five minute experience will also be available between 12.30pm to 2pm and 6.30pm to 7.30pm. To request a booking for these slots please email interstellar@premiercomms.com
An additional booth will be hosted across the weekend at MCM Comic Con from Friday October 24th – Sunday October 26th. Limited tickets are still available to purchase for the Convention at www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/
Tickets to see INTERSTELLAR at the BFI IMAX can be purchased at: odeon.co.uk/bfiimax
INTERSTELLAR stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow and Michael Caine. With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Directed by Christopher Nolan, written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, and produced by Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Lynda Obst. The executive producers are Jordan Goldberg, Jake Myers, Kip Thorne and Thomas Tull.
The film is slated to open worldwide beginning November 7, 2014.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures present, in association with Legendary Pictures, a Syncopy/Lynda Obst Productions production, a film by Christopher Nolan.
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