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...movie studios, it's simple math. For exhibitors - the owners of movie theaters - it's 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...
...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...
...regular at the screenings is Marianna Pollock of Virginia Beach, Va., and her 6-year-old son Xander. "We attempted a regular movie a few times," says Pollock. "We always ended up having to leave within the first 15 minutes because Xander gets so excited that he flaps and makes noise. It was very stressful...
...Silvia Townsend of San Diego took her 12-year-old son Bailey to a regular movie. Once. "It was horrible," says Townsend. "He was terrified when the lights turned off. And when the loud music started, he was covering his ears and started screaming in obvious pain." Now Bailey loves attending sensory-friendly films...