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...more complicated, because they have to pay to convert their projection systems from 2-D to 3-D. (Eighty years ago, when talking pictures became the standard, studios owned most of the theaters in the U.S.; they put up the conversion money, then got the revenue from the new films they produced and exhibited.) Exhibitors want in on the 3-D bonanza, so they're spending now to reap cash later. In early March, Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, a company owned by the two largest theater chains, Cinemark and AMC, announced it had raised $660 million to finance the conversion...
...Final Destination Soon there'll be enough screens for all the 3-D movies. But will there be enough 3-D movies to fill those screens? Consider that last year, eight new films were released in the format: Avatar, Disney's A Christmas Carol, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, The Final Destination, Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Monsters vs Aliens and Up (plus 3-D transfers of the old hits Toy Story and Toy Story 2). Of the eight, half were animated features, one was a concert film, one the extension of a horror-movie franchise...
...This year - unless we missed something or there are more conversions in the immediate works - the number of new 3-D movies should be 19. Ten of these are animated features (beginning with Dragon and ending in December with Yogi Bear); four are extensions of B-movie franchises (Step Up 3D, Piranha 3-D, Jackass 3D and Saw VII); one is another concert film (Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D.) Two Disney films, Alice in Wonderland and Tron Legacy, are a mix of live action and digital fantasy. That leaves just two live-action movies - the Warner Bros. adventures Clash...
...Warner Bros. has announced that all its epics and big action films - the final Harry Potter episode, the next Batman - will be made, or at least released, in 3-D. Sony's decision to go with a new creative team for the next Spider-Man sequel is said to be related to the studio's wish to have the Marvel hero do his cavorting in 3-D. Spielberg is in postproduction on his 3-D Tintin movie. Will other moguls dare make the next film in the Transformers or James Bond franchise in a flat-screen version? It's more...
...traditional format, the filmmakers slapped on 3-D effects at the last minute. Two: Director Louis Leterrier and his team dared to remake the 1981 original, replacing stop-motion genius Ray Harryhausen's handcrafted creatures - Medusa, the Kraken, the giant scorpions, etc. - with computer-generated ones. Three: The new picture reduces the role of Buba the mechanical owl, one of Harryhausen's signature inventions, to a perfunctory cameo. And fourth: Well, a lot of critics just don't like...