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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:04 am Post subject: Disney/Pixar Movies in 3D
Basically, it was announced that Disney will be releasing all of their Pixar films in the 3D format (along with the normal formats). This is part of an ongoing push by studios to help theaters upgrade their equipment to support the new 3D and digital technology. The article does mention Disney Animation original movie, but doesn't say if they will be released in 3D also or not....
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Pixar movies will be released in 3-D starting next year
NEW YORK (AP) - The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday its Pixar animation studio will commit to 3-D by releasing all of its movies in the format beginning with "Up" next year.
Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter made the announcement in New York at a presentation of Disney's upcoming lineup of animated movies.
He said Walt Disney Animation Studios will offer "The Princess and the Frog" in the traditional hand-drawn format for release for Christmas 2009.
Meanwhile, Pixar movies will be released in 3-D and the traditional two-dimensional format, beginning with "Up," about an elderly widower who embarks on a South American adventure, in May 2009.
The lineup from Walt Disney Animation Studios also includes "Rapunzel," a retelling of a fairy tale set for release for Christmas 2010, and "King of the Elves," set for release for Christmas 2012. Those will be released in both 3-D and two-dimensional formats.
Disney also showed a 30-minute clip of "Wall-E," set for release June 27. It tells a love story between the title character, a robot left alone on earth for 700 years, and another robot named Eve sent to look for life.
"Wall-E" is the first Pixar release since last summer's "Ratatouille," which grossed more than $620 million at the worldwide box office.
"Ratatouille" was the last independent Pixar picture in development before Disney's acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios in May 2006 for $7.5 billion in stock.
In a deal announced last month, four studios - Disney, News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox, Viacom Inc.'s Paramount, and Universal Pictures, which is owned by General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal - agreed to help finance and equip 10,000 screens in the U.S. and Canada to accommodate 3-D movies.
The conversion will cost as much as $700 million and take three years.
Box office figures have shown that the enveloping feel of 3-D can attract two to three times more moviegoers who are willing to pay as much as $3 more per ticket, analysts said.
Theaters owners and studios hope the offerings will help bring people back to multiplexes for an experience that cannot be matched by increasingly sophisticated home theater systems.
they should keep in mind that good portion of the viewers can not see 3-D images projected on a screen in 3 dimension. If a viewer has depth perception issues or other visual conditions, all they see is a ghosty, blurry image. Need to keep both formats around or they will end up losing those customers
Joined: Feb 21, 2006 Posts: 4196 Location: Sanford, Fl
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:47 am Post subject:
I've read some other articles and this new 3D initiative is for both Disney Animation and Pixar...
I believe they are still going to release the movies in regular formats. Disney is part of a group of other studios that is raising money to help upgrade theaters to new digital video/audio systems, so they can play the 3D and digital movies.
Most of the big studios are ready to move forward with more and more 3D and digital projection movies, but theaters just don't have the technology to do it. This initiative is designed to help smaller or independant theaters, that may not be able to afford the ugprades, upgrade to the latest technology. I think most of the larger theater chains (like AMC, Lowes, etc...) may be get a piece of the pie, but not that big (since they can cover most of the costs themselves).
This is the same thing Lucas has been talking about for years... Glad to see that it is finally coming true! _________________ Up or Down North, South, East, or West An Adventurer's Life is Best!
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