Blu-ray Avatar 16-min. longer
This Friday’s “Avatar: Special Edition” in 3D theaters, has about nine minutes of additional footage but the special edition coming to Blu-ray in November will have 16 additional minutes, James Cameron told the Associated Press in a story published today. He didn’t mention the rumored 3D Blu-ray version also believed to be coming in November [...]
Piranha 3D vs Piranha BD
You can watch “Piranha 3D” in theaters and/or the original “Piranha” on Blu-ray Disc at home this weekend. The good news is that you will have a good time either way. Both are so over-the-top and preposterous that despite the buckets of blood and body parts — or because of it — they are simply [...]
Piranha DP Leonetti, 2D-to-3D
Cinematographer John Leonetti has tackled projects such as “The Mask” and “The Scorpion King,” and will soon take on “Arabian Knights” in 3D, but the 42-day shoot of “Piranha” last year in 100-plus temperatures on a lake in anamorphic film that would be converted into 3D presented some unique challenges for the movie’s DP. In [...]
I Step Up: 3 3D films in 11 hours
Having been on vacation to the Cayman Islands, where I didn’t stumble across a single movie theater — 3D or otherwise — in the tropical Caribbean British Isles paradise boasting more registered businesses than the 54,000 residents (granted, I didn’t look real hard to find a dark movie theater as opposed to basking in the [...]
Step Up 3D trailer, music vid
The third episode in “Step Up” dance movie series, “Step Up 3D,” from Disney’s Touchstone Pictures and Summit Entertainment, opens Aug. 6 and stars Adam Sevani, Alyson Stoner, Rick Malambri, Sharni Vinson, Keith “Remedy” Stallworth, Kendra Andrews, Stephen “Twitch” Boss, and Joe Slaughter. A tight-knit group of street dancers team up with NYU freshman Moose [...]
Shrek IMAXed Out
Updated May 28: If Shrek seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis in his new movie, maybe it’s because the DreamWorks/Paramount marketing people couldn’t seem to ever figure out what to call the fourth installment in the studio’s biggest franchise. It started out as “Shrek Goes Fourth,” and then became “Shrek Forever [...]
Hubble 3D, premier experience
Thank you IMAX and filmmaker Toni Myers for providing audiences who think they saw 3D for the first time when watching “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland” with an example of how much more dynamic 3D can be in the visually and existentially impactful “Hubble 3D,” opening in about 50 original large format IMAX theaters on [...]
3D Captain EO back at D-land
Thousands of fans from as far away as North Carolina started lining up in the wee hours of the morning (Feb. 23) for the re-opening of “Captain EO” at Disneyland, the first major 3D movie created with a major star and Hollywood filmmakers for a theme park. The 17-minute musical space adventure from George Lucas and [...]
Dave Matthews: Larger than Life 3D
The concert film “Larger Than Life … in 3D,” featuring the Dave Matthews Band, Ben Harper and Relentless7, and Gogol Bordello, opens in theaters today, Dec. 11, for one week only. The film produced by Action 3D and AEG Network Live is distributed by digital cinema company Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. (More story below following [...]
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