"Mars Needs Moms," the latest performance-capture 3D movie from producer Robert Zemeckis and Walt Disney Studios, opens Friday, March 11, on more than 256 IMAX screens, including 211 in the U.S. The clever and fun film about a young boy (Seth Green) who secretly climbs aboard a spaceship to try to … [Read more...]
Jackass cast-crew in Blu-ray
March 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing "Jackass 3" in 3D this week but not in the new industry HiDef 3D standard for Blu-ray. The anaglyph 3D version will make the movie available to play in 3D on any TV but only on DVD. The Blu-ray version will offer an unrated version of the movie, 29 … [Read more...]
Megamind first Dolby TrueHD Blu
February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
DreamWorks and Paramount may be holding back the 3D on the new Blu-ray Disc version of "Megamind" but the animated comedy features the world premiere of Dolby TrueHD Blu-ray, the home version of Dolby Surround 7.1 introduced in theaters last year.. A few days ago at Dolby Laboratories in Burbank, … [Read more...]
Disney tops 3D Awards; video
February 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Walt Disney Studios, including Pixar, dominated the second annual 3D Creative Arts Awards of the International 3D Society Wednesday night (Feb. 9) at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, with five different 3D movies from the studios winning a combined six of 16 voted awards. But it was DreamWorks … [Read more...]
Potter park’s “real” 3D
February 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT -- With "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" heading to Blu-ray and DVD on April 15 from Warner Home Video and the final film heading to theaters this summer, Harry Potter fans can live the magic year-round in the new Universal Studios Orlando’s Wizarding … [Read more...]
Legend3D conversion tops 3D
February 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The 2D-to-3D conversion business is booming for San Diego-based Legend3D, which recently got a late order to convert about 30-minutes of "The Green Hornet," but a couple of the growth areas now are in Blu-ray and TV commercials. Legend3D recently converted the first three Shrek movies for a release … [Read more...]
“Gnomo-sexual” Elton’s life story
January 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A movie script has already been written about Elton John's life by Lee Hall ("Billy Elliott). It was but one revelation by Sir Elton during a freewheeling meeting with the media Friday afternoon ostensibly to promote Disney's Feb. 11 release of Touchstone Pictures' 3D animated film "Gnomeo & … [Read more...]
Star Wars, directors do Blu-ray
January 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Just as the Blu-ray industry touted the extraordinary sales success of Blu-ray in 2010 at CES here in Las Vegas on Thursday (Jan. 6), Storm Troopers and Darth Vader took the Panasonic booth stage with Fox Home Entertainment president Mike Dunn to announce that all six films in the Star Wars Saga … [Read more...]
RealD goes universal at CES
January 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Robert Mayson, president of the consumer electronics division of RealD, took a few minutes at the RealD suite at the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas to give us a summary of several announcements the company made during CES 2011, and his fun news about the company's own co-production movie chosen to … [Read more...]
DISH “TV Anywhere” & 3D at CES
January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dish Network's Francie Bauer explains Dish Network's recent introduction of 3D movies via VOD, and the satellite service's new TV Anywhere option that allows customers to view any channel on their Android, tablet or other portable device in the following 2 1/2-minute video interview at CES 2011 in … [Read more...]
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