Lisbon, April 8, 2025 (Lusa) - The feature film ‘A Minecraft Movie’ by Jared Hess, currently in cinemas in Portugal and elsewhere, employed audio technology from a Portuguese company to create "complex and realistic three-dimensional sounds," revealed the company involved, Sound Particles.

Based in Leiria, in west-central Portugal, Sound Particles is a company founded in 2016 that has developed innovative 3D sound software, used particularly in the US in cinema, television, music and video games.

Productions such as ‘Oppenheimer’ (2023), 'Dune' (2021), ‘Frozen II’ (2019), ‘Stranger Things’, ‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ have already used this Portuguese technology.

In a statement, Sound Particles reveals that ‘A Minecraft Movie’ - which stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa and is inspired by a popular video game - also uses its software, "which applies computer graphics concepts to audio" and allows "complex and realistic three-dimensional sounds to be created."

The Portuguese company currently sells various audio technology products and has some 30 employees, having begun as a project by Nuno Fonseca, who has a degree in engineering and musical composition and teaches at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.

The company has already been nominated for awards from the Cinema Audio Society (Hollywood Sound Mixers Association) and was a finalist for the United States Film Academy's scientific awards in 2018.

‘A Minecraft Movie’ was the most watched film on its opening weekend in Portuguese cinemas, between 3 and 6 April, with 104,164 spectators, according to data from the country's Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual (ICA).

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