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...because you need control of the most 3-D screens." Alice in Wonderland, Bock notes, opened on a weekend with little new competition and, except for Avatar, no other 3-D movie around. "So now the focus is, We've gotta make sure we get 3,500 screens for two or three weeks straight...
...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 of 14,000 North American movie screens to the digital format, including 3-D. The number of converted screens should be up to 5,000 by year...
...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 and the last two, Avatar and A Christmas Carol, live-action pictures in "performance capture" technology. (Watch TIME's video about how Monsters vs Aliens was created...
...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 of the Titans and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I - that might have been released in the traditional format...
...arisen against Clash of the Titans. This mythological epic, starring Avatar's Sam Worthington as the ancient adventurer Perseus, has endured a typhoon of negative reviews, for four reasons. One: After shooting the picture in the 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...