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RealD and Cinepolis see Latin America in 3D

Mexican exhibitor Cinepolis has big 3D plans for the whole of Latin america. Its deal with RealD envisions 500 screens to be converted in the next few years. From the press release: The rollout of these 500 RealD 3D screens has already begun with six new screens installed for the release of Journey…

Hollywood’s 3D Dilemma Goes Mainstream

For months now the debate over the lagging rollout of digital 3D equipped screens has been argued by both distributors and exhibitors alike, mostly in public statements to industry media outlets. Well, on Thursday, the issue jumped from trade publications and trade show speeches, to the front page o…

AccessIT To Beam Live 3-D Events To Theatres

Having announced their CineLive offering at ShowEast in October of 2007, and with the success of the live 3-D broadcast of a Dallas Maverick’s basketball game, AccessIt announced on Monday that it would be beaming live events in 3-D to 150 cinemas throughout the United States. The offering wil…

Regal’s 1,500 screen deal with RealD for 3D comes with BIG caveat

Regal likes 3D and is showing it in a big way by promising to install no less than 1,500 of its screens with RealD’s technology, meaning that more than one in ten of all its auditoria would be stereoscopically enabled. But this big hangs on a bigger IF that most of the press seem toRead More

Cameron: ‘4K is a concept born in fear.’

It looks like a James Cameron will not be on Sony’s Christmas card list this year. In an in-depth interview in Variety, as part of its NAB coverage, he goes into details on the practicalities and more profound implications of working in stereoscopy and the future that the format has for cinema…

‘Journey 3D’ to be released in, erhh, 2D

One of the consequences of the absorption of New Line into Time Warner is that some new distribution strategies are being put into place. And someone at WB obviously feels that ‘Journey 3D‘ (aka ‘Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 3D’) will perform better at the box office if…

Regal’s Not-As-Large-As-AMC’s Deal With IMAX

Regal has signed a major deal with Regal for the deployment of its digital 3D system. Major, but not as major as the previous 100 screen deal with AMC. According to Reuters: Imax Corp said on Monday it had entered a joint venture with Regal Cinemas to have 31 of its giant movie screens installedRead…

NBA to be shown live in 3D with stacked 4K

Maverick billionaire Mark Cuban‘s Dallas Mavericks will have their upcoming 25 March game captured, beamed and shown in live digital 3D, through a partnership with Pace Fusion 3D. From the press release: The March 25 game against the Los Angeles Clippers from the American Airlines Center will…

A Hannah Montana in your lap and a Miley Cyrus in your arms!

…was the tag-line that Disney sadly chose not to use for the digital 3D release of the concert film ‘Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour’ [Surely in questionable taste, given the target demographic? -Ed.]. Beating the digital 3D release of ‘U2 3D…

3D Makes Impact At Sundance

Last week at the Sundance Film Festival one of the hottest tickets in Park City, the Utah mining town cum ski resort in which the festival is held, was to the premiere of the concert film “U2 3D”. Like at the Cannes Film Festival, all four members of the Irish rock group U2 showed upRead…