Disney-Pixar Film ‘Elemental’ To Show on Samsung Onyx Cinema LED Screens

Disney Pixar's latest animated movie will soon be exclusively viewable in 4K HDR.

Samsung recently revealed that Pixar's animated original feature film "Elemental" will be viewed exclusively on the "world's first cinema LED screen, the Samsung Onyx.

Disney previously released "Elemental" on June 16 to average critical reception, per Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb.

Disney-Samsung Partnership Details

Samsung recently announced that Pixar has mastered "Elemental" as 4K theatrical HDR content available exclusively at an Onyx Theater, providing audiences with "a more captivating and vibrant viewing experience through next-generation picture quality with 4K theatrical HDR."

Samsung claims its Onyx Cinema LED screens are the world's first digital cinema initiatives (DCI)-certified cinema display that provides exceptionally vivid color and the most detail-rich content, per Samsung's announcement. It delivers millions of additional colors that traditional projection couldn't through overcoming limited contrast ratio and brightness.

Additionally, the cinema LED screens can accommodate any venue configuration while delivering picture quality, technical performance, and reliability better than a traditional projector-based theater could provide.

To capitalize on the features and capabilities of Samsung's Onyx Cinema LED screens, Pixar decided to master the film in 4K theatrical HDR, showcasing not only the screen's capabilities but also Pixar's bright, sharp, rich, and detailed imagery. It also decided to pair its reach with Samsuns's visual technology expertise, resulting in "the largest cinema LED prescence of any brand in the theatrical space."

Dominic Glynn, Senior Scientist at Pixar, said that Samsung and Pixar were alike - both are known for pushing boundaries of both technology and art. Pixar, through "Elemental," and Samsung through its Onyx Cinema LED screens. He added that Pixar took a bold leap forward through its deployment of technology at a scale enabling a compelling step-change in cinema image quality.

Thanks to "Elemental's" exclusivity to Samsun's Onyx, audiences could experience the brightness and rich, detailed HDR imagery Pixar imbued in "Elementals" on large, sharp cinema screens that showcases Pixar's latest work to date, Glynn further added.

"Elementals" isn't the only Pixar movie getting such a treatment from the Academy Award-winning animation studio. Pixar plans to continue mastering 4K HDR content for Samsung Onyx to ensure that audiences can watch their movies the way its creators intended for the best possible experience.

Disney Pixar's 'Elementals' Production Details

Disney Pixar's "Elementals" is a technological marvel of art in and of itself, if effects supervisor Stephen Marshall is to be believed. According to the statement he gave to The Walt Disney Company's post, he and the team used technology they never used before to produce the film and make Ember and Wade appear to be made out of fire and water, respectively, such as Machine Learning.

Additionally, Pixar had to upgrade and buy more computers to make "Elemental." According to Pixar Post, Pixar used over 151,000 cores for the film in three large rooms on the Pixar campus - more than "Toy Story," "Monsters, Inc.," and "Finding Nemo's" combined.