Located at the back of Production Centre, guests can find a small production office called the Screening Theatre, to get a first look at potential new movies. The problem? The new movies don’t have the actors, just the sets ready to go. Guests load into a large theatre with an array of small sets throughout the large theatre (think similar to an SNL where there’s an audience and then a stage full of smaller sets).

A set of hosts and producers look through the audience for volunteers to partake in the various shows ranging from adults, to small children depending on the needed scene. With all of the scenes being filmed at Pinewood Studios, guests can experience what it’s like to film multiple movies across all genres, with the ability to have certain sets constantly rotated out with newer (or older) ones to fit current demand. 

The example sets/ movies for opening day are: 

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

  • Volunteered Guests arrive at Poppy Land having to complete a Jungle Obstacle Course to get to the entrance without stepping on one of the land mines surrounding the area as demonstrated by a stuntman with the show. The guests go on and one believes to step on one of these fake mines causing chaos before revealing it’s completely a dud just to test how the group reacts. 

• Everest (2015) 

  • Guests enter a small set, that between a few styrofoam mountain sets and a projected background, it appears these guests are truly making the dangerous climb up the famous mountain.

• Black Sea (2014)

  • Guests enter into a “submarine” where they play as the captain, navigator, and other parts of the submarine crew. After simulating traversing a trench, suddenly the alarm sirens go off signalling something going wrong. Guests have to figure out the issue and solve it in order to save the submarine before it’s too late! 

• The Bank Job (2008)

  • A few guests are set up as Bank Tellers interacting with the bank customers. Suddenly, Pinewood crew come in as robbers setting up a bank heist for the guests to play out. Chaos ensues when one of the “guests” is actually a hired crew member and goes against the robbers. Eventually the guests push back on the robbers and successfully stop the heist. 

• Batman (1989)

  • This set transports guests from Pinewood Studios, all the way to Gotham City. Guests are joined with the one and only Batman as he needs to get across a set of henchmen, taxis, and up  a small wall to get to Joker. Through the use of prop cars that are easy to lift, guests lift the cars out of the way for Batman while the next set “distract” the Henchmen (however they want) allowing Batman to climb the short wall to get to Joker and defeat him.

• IT Crowd 

  • While the set gets ready and the guests get prepped, a host walks through the audience with a mad libs script to set the scene. Audience members build out the script to give the actors with no idea where the script is going to go next. The script focuses on some IT issue the guests need to fix but what the IT issue is and what the possible solution is is different every show!