Spectacle kings George Lucas and James Cameron are two of the biggest backers of the reemergence of 3D. ![]() The system would utilize a single digital projector and lightweight sunglasses. The other related news at ShoWest was that Mann Theatres signed an agreement with REAL D to exhibit digital 3D, with the famous Hollywood Chinese serving as the flagship theater. of Agoura, California, and projected by a single Texas Instruments DLP-based 2K D-Cinema projector from Christie and fed from a single dual-stream server from QuVis. ShoWest attendees were treated to test footage of Attack of the Clones, Lilo & Stitch and Top Gun dimensionalized by In-Three Inc. ![]() These new active glasses that youre wearing and seeing 3D with are a breakthrough in technology. Forget the old days of wearing the red and blue glasses and the eyestrain. But that the particular technology can be used to create three-dimensional movies that go far beyond the quality and the spectacle of anything weve ever seen before. Its not just the use of digital projection, which we all know is on the horizon, added Peter Jackson in a pre-taped session, who reportedly has installed a 3D master suite in his production offices in New Zealand. It means we can repurpose a lot of old movies, and at the same time it really gives a whole new dimension to the movies were making now. When you see some of this test footage, its shockingly good, and you can see how people would want to go see it, Lucas said at ShoWest last month. ![]() The 3D revival currently underway is a real business, with definite ramifications for our industry. No, when The Polar Express IMAX 3D grosses $45 million in 83 theaters, amassing nearly a quarter of the domestic take, and when George Lucas shows up at ShoWest to preach the 3D gospel with Robert Zemeckis ( Polar Express), James Cameron (who plans on shooting his next feature, Battle Angel, in the stereoscopic format) and Robert Rodriguez (whose second foray, The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D, opens June 10), and to announce that the entire Star Wars franchise will be reissued in 3D beginning in 2007, you realize that this is no gimmick. Pictures.ģD is definitely back but were not talking about House of Wax (the Vincent Price original, not the recent remake with Paris Hilton) or Honey, I Shrunk the Audience. A good part of The Polar Express box office success came from its consistently impressive performance on IMAX 3D.
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