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Topic: Katzenberg is steamed that there aren't more 3-D cinemas
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Jonathan M. Crist
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Hershey, PA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 05-01-2008 04:24 PM
What happened with 3-D in the past is the same thing that is happening now. It is all about cost and quality of product.
This recent March 19 article from IMDB says it all:
3-D 'Clone Wars'? It's Not Happening, Says Lucas
Although numerous filmmakers and studio executives have been forecasting that 3-D movies will become the wave of the future, with several animation units being converted to 3-D productions exclusively, George Lucas has not joined the 3-D boosters' club. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly magazine, Lucas said that his August 15 release of the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the theatrical version of his Cartoon Network series, will not be presented in 3-D, despite numerous reports to the contrary. His reasoning? "Well, you know, it's expensive," he told the magazine, "and we felt that everybody kind of looks at the downside: It would cost twice as much to do it in 3-D as it did to do the movie in the first place. So you say, "Well, gosh, do you think we're going to get that much more out of it?"
I do think its fitting that Lionsgate has announced production of a digital remake of that 1980's chestnut "My Bloody Valentine" to be called (what else?) "My Bloody Valentine 3-D".
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James Westbrook
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From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 05-01-2008 11:49 PM
It's a generational thing. My generation found 3-D movies to literally be a headache. Not everyone can view these things without some sort of eye strain. The new generation has had little product to view in 3-D (Lava Girl not-withstanding). A lot of the problems were technical issues, including the "stacked" 3-d format that Bobby mentioned, where one splice being off-frame can cause the movie to be unwatchable. (And these movies frame-lines, where to cut, where not to cut, could be different between titles.) lens compatability was another. Digital may improve the technical aspect of 3-D, but because we are not alike eye-wise, this will only be a fad, and not a main format for movies.
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
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posted 05-02-2008 03:37 AM
Wait a minute....wasn't Lucas the one who was going to go back an re-release all the Star Wars titles in that new computer-generated 3D process -- 2D dumped in/hard drive spin/3D regurgitated out? So if it is good enough for old 2D material, how come it is not good enough for shooting original 3D material? Why has he all of a sudden gotten cold feet?
Ahhh, I get it....when it's the exhibs, then they should just jump on the roll-out bus for digital conversion lickity split.....money is no object; but when it is the producers who need to invest in 3D production, well, all of a sudden we are counting pennies, eh? Here's one of the big producers pretty much telling the world that if it's going to cost him an extra $15M to produce in 3D, hell, why should he? He can make as much $$ in 2D! All of a sudden the committment to producing 3D isn't quite as firm and rosey as one might have thought. Sounds like it may even be on the wain.
Bet hearing that a big release from Lucas WON'T be produced in 3D must be making the execs at AMC, Regal, et al, want to just run out and invest in another 2000 3D digital installs!
And as far as Katz-and-bomb, first it was, "hey, all you schmucks, you all need to get with the program and install Deee-Cinema so us producers don't have to pay for crummy, scratch, dirty, fading, jittery 35mm prints." So up steps AMC, Regal and the rest, and they start the very costly conversions even without any hard definative agreements on how that virtual print carrot that was/is/maybe held out will work. And now, only a short time later, here he is whining about how the exhibs just aren't dancing fast enough to his digital tune; he's pouting because they are being (finally) fiscially cautious.
All of a sudden Deee-Cinema isn't enough for Mr. K....now he's berating the exhibs because they aren't converting their conversions to the even more expensive 3-Deeee digital equipment.
Paul's got the right word....a freakin Putz!
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