From MTV:

If it were up to J.J. Abrams, he'd be able to keep his mouth shut about "Super 8" — his upcoming, Steven Spielberg-produced summer blockbuster — until the movie slips into theaters June 10. That PR-free approach may have flown back when Abrams was making home movies to premiere, say, in his parents' basement, but that's just not how Hollywood works.

And so, as part of MTV News' Summer Movie Preview week, Abrams skipped away from a scoring set, where he's overseeing the orchestral music, to chat about the movie. We already know the film is set in Ohio in 1979 and follows six kids who are using a Super 8 camera to make a zombie flick. One night, they end up filming near a set of train tracks and capture a calamitous wreck and the creature that emerges from the wreckage. Soon the military pulls into town, and things start to get, well, very funky for these unsuspecting residents.

What we haven't learned much about is the nature of Abrams' collaboration with Spielberg, the way the director has managed to nod at Spielberg's films without copying them and much more. Thankfully, Abrams stepped in to provide us with some answers.

Take the time to read all of JJ's answers.

From FSR:

The first question you must be asking yourself, if you aren’t in the know, is what the heck D-Box is. Turns out it’s a ridiculous version of a standard theater seat that jerks around and vibrates while you’re watching a movie. Anyone with spinal issues or hemorrhoids might want to avoid this new breakthrough technology, but for the rest of us it sounds like an exciting new development in movie watching. Right? Okay, maybe not. But it’s an idea that could be poised to grow.

It doesn’t take a gypsy fortune teller to predict that J.J. Abrams’s upcoming Amblin Entertainment love letter Super 8 is going to be a huge, gigantic success at the box office this summer. Even from the first trailer alone I can tell that people are going to be seeing this movie multiple times, talking about it all summer, and maybe even drinking out of Burger King cups with its logo on them. The good news for D-Box is that Super 8 is going to be using their shaky chair technology on 50 select screens. If you’re lucky enough to live somewhere near the 50 D-Box enabled theaters that can be found on a map here, then you might be the perfect guinea pig to try this growing craze out.

Personally, I live just a short drive up I-90 from the Rosemont, IL theater that has D-Box seats, so I’m probably a prime candidate to give this potential new craze a whirl. Am I going to? No. Lord no. That sounds so dumb. But, quite frankly, D-Box scares me. The general public loves gimmicks, at least for a while. If buzz starts to build that you can go see a movie as big as Super 8 in shaky chairs, I don’t find it inconceivable that a lot of people will try it out. And then we may start getting movies made specifically for shaky chairs. And then J.J. Abrams might want to start putting D-Box technology into all of your chairs at home. And then there will be shaky chairs installed in cars and airplanes. Where does it end?!

As mentioned previously, Super 8 will shake, rattle, and roll in some 50 theaters across the US.

From Wired:

Moviegoers in select cities will be able to shake, rattle, roll and levitate in their seats as they watch J.J. Abrams’ summer sci-fi thriller Super 8 .

Screenings are slated to take place in about 50 North American theaters that are outfitted with D-Box Motion Code seats. The “motion effects” technology activates pitch, roll and heave movements that shift audience members up, down and sideways in their chairs.

“The content of this new picture is an ideal match for our incredibly realistic motion effects,” D-Box Technologies CEO Claude McMaster said in a statement. The Canadian company also enables on-screen actions to trigger what it calls “intelligent vibrations” for audience members.

From Complex:

Now that 3-D has become commonplace, it's time to move on to 4-D.

D-Box Technologies, a Canadian company, is rolling out its line of "motion effects" seats for movie theaters, promising to make the film-going experience that much more immersive. Recently pegged to J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg's hotly anticipated summer blockbuster Super 8, the interactive seats will be used at screenings at 50 theaters across the country. The technology will also be used for screenings of the upcoming Fast and the Furious and Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.

The seats, enable a variety of different motions, including pitching from side to side, heaving up and down and vibrations. For each movie, a "motion code" is created to sync with the film's soundtrack and trigger motions at specific points.

Like 3D, this technology isn't actually new (remember the movies with the vibrating seats and water spritzers at Disney World?), but it could be poised to gain wider acceptance in theaters as the movie industry tries to lure more people away from their screens at home. See how it all works in the video above.

Joel Courtney and Kyle Chandler

Joel Courtney with acting coaches Gary Spatz and Gayla Goehl of The Playground.

Gary and Gayla coached Joel for the first audition of his life: the role of Joe Lamb in Super 8.

Josh, Joel, and Caleb Courtney at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.