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Topic: Beauty And The Beast in 70mm
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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today
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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-08-2001 07:44 PM
Instead of re-releasing old hash in 70mm (and it's IMAX and 8-perf "fake IMAX" cousins), they instead should release NEW movies in 70mm. I know I know, I am waaaaay out of my league here, since 35mm is good enough (hell, DVD is good enough), but really, there hasn't been a new 70mm release for a very long time. While they're at it, they should shoot on 65mm to make it even more worth it. Another good thing is that there wouldn't be all of the soda, car and other commercials spliced on the front of the print. And while I'm at it, I want feature length fictional movie (no cartoons)! Not just 50 minute documentary fluff that will fit on an IMAX platter.Beauty and the Beast was traditional Disney animation. It can't be re-rendered. You are just supposed to be in absolute awe that it is now on IMAX. Are you?
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Mark Lensenmayer
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From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 10-08-2001 10:38 PM
Brad Miller said: "As far as I'm concerned, a release like Far and Away should have been released to 70mm equipped theaters for the first 2 months and then all of the run-of-the-mill 35mm theaters should be able to get it." I know that ALIEN opened in 70mm exclusively, and also, I believe, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. I'm not sure about THE ROSE, but that may also have opened in 70mm theatres THEN later in 35. Ah, the good old days. BATB might be the longest 15/70 feature yet. IMDB lists it at 84 minutes, and they are adding a song back to the film (Human Again, I believe), so it should run longer than that. FANTASIA 2000 lists at 72, and STONES AT THE MAX lists at 89. I'm looking forward to it on the Giant Screen. Gaston will look marvelous 80' wide! Mark L.
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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 10-09-2001 07:38 AM
John Walsh asked: "Was Beauty And The Beast done all digitally, ie: could they "re-render" it to get better picture quality? I worry about quality from just printing a 15/70 print, even from a good 35mm negative."AFAIK, although "Beauty and the Beast" was mostly traditional animation with a few computer generated animation sequences, the "ink and paint" was done digitally, so hopefully the original image files will be re-rendered and output to 65mm negative at the higher resolution needed for 15-perf 70mm release. In other words, it WON'T just be a blow-up from the 35mm negative. ------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
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Mark Lensenmayer
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From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 10-09-2001 07:58 AM
I just hopped to the Disney web page. No details on where the picture will be playing yet. It is listed as being a SPECIAL EDITION for IMAX and Large Screen theatres.As for the state of the picture itself, here is a quote from Disney:
Disney's animators and post-production crew spent more than a year going through the film, scene-by-scene, enhancing backgrounds, improving special effects, and refining character faces and bodies to shine brightly on the giant screen. In addition, to ensure that the "Human Again" sequence would fit in seamlessly with the surrounding film, Disney artists who originally worked on Beauty and the Beast returned to bring the enchanted characters to life. At the same time, producer Don Hahn worked to ensure that the Giant-Screen version of "Beauty and the Beast" would be crystal clear and not simply a grainy blow-up; because all of the images from "Beauty and the Beast" were stored digitally, the colors of the film will appear more lustrous, more vibrant, and more brilliant on the Giant Screen than ever before. This attention to detail will provide audiences with a motion picture experience second-to-none when this all-new version of "Beauty and the Beast" debuts on January 1, 2002.
Mark L.
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