How do movies look in Digital 3D? Going friday since the new theater by my house will be showing it in Digital 3D. How is the 3D effect? does stuff appear to leap off the screen?

Most likely gonna be the same effect used in Spy Kids 3-D.

Anywhere to get a list of theatres?

They have flyer going at my local Rave Theater touting "Disney Digital 3-D!" It's supposed to start on November the 4th. I will probably try to check it out.

Disney and Dolby spent their own money (IIRC) in converting 100 screens to be polarized and have digital projection. No crappy red-and-blue glasses for this operation.

so does this mean there are future Disney/Dolby 'Digital' films after 'Chicken Little's' release, sans the 3D aspect?

Pretty much all of the future CGI family films are going to be available in digital 3-D and/or IMAX 3-D versions. (You can probably expect a TOY STORY 3-D in selected theatres.) In order to convince the theater chains to install the systems, they have to have at least two or three features minimum each year. So far, at least 20 theater chains have signed on to begin the digital rollout.

MONSTER HOUSE, THE ANT BULLY and HAPPY FEET are all coming in 2-D/ polarized 3-D in 2006, (no colored glasses) and 2007 will bring BATTLE ANGEL at the least. 2-D digital screenings will also no doubt occur as well as time goes on.

The biggest issue seems to be getting enough projectors made to keep up with the increasing demand. I really don't mind the slow rollout because they need to make sure all goes well with the 85 Chicken Little screens before they start considering wide release on 2000 screens. They have to ensure that all theatres comply with the standards and that everyone everywhere sees the best presentation possible, something which has always been an issue in the past with 3-D projection. In any case, digital projection is the best thing that has come along for 3-D, and hopefully Polarized 3-D will be back on a regular basis and the recent anaglyph messes will be forgotten.

It does look like there will be limited theatrical digital 3-D screenings of the recently completed, shot on HD video NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD "remake" using anaglyph though, which is a mistake. Check out www.d3.com and www.nightofthelivingdead3d.com for more info, including a trailer! This could be shown in polarized 3-D too, but I suspect they can't afford it as the thing was obvously done on the cheap and is primarily intended for the video market.

so 15 screens were dropped - cause at one point there was mention that 100 screens would be outfitted to playback the polarized 3D presentations of 'Chicken Little'.

From what I understand, 85 projector set ups were all that could be ready by the deadline. I'm sure the number of available units will creep up a bit by the time MONSTER HOUSE is released in July.

oh my god, oh my god, oh my god FINALLY! just looked over at enjoytheshow.com and Loews Georgetown will be showing this in 3D

hooray!!!

(sorry, I am supremely siked, I am so glad that I dont have to trek over to that craptastic Lee Merrifield theatre - why National Amusements wastes it's time and money restructuring this one's theatre's DLP system is beyond me, the theatre is so antiquated, uncomfortable and just plain lousy. They could have easily upgraded one of the stadium seated auditoriums at the far superior Cinema de Lux, but nah.).

http://www.fromscripttodvd.com/chick...e_d_cinema.htm

This site has a list of 3-D locations

Thanks Steve.

You can also check out www.reald.com which has a listing of all theaters showing it in the Real D 3-D technology.

Is this what Lucas is planning to use for the 2007 3-D release of Star Wars? If so, they better get more theaters upgraded...the nearest one to me is 3 hours away!

Yes, 3-D via digital projection will be the method of presentation. This can be accomplished with either simple, clear polarized glasses and a silver screen or active shutter glasses and a white screen.

The idea is to have a couple of thousand projectors in place by then. I'm kind of glad they are ramping up slowly as they need to take their time and do this right.

our theater has Real D 3-D technology. anyone know how the 3d effect is?

okay so I'm a little confused here, this is a partnership between Disney, Dolby, DLP Technology and REALD, right?

Again, this is standard, clear glasses polarized format (used for the overwhelming majority of 3-D features ever released) except it is being presented via digital means.

Forget all about the colored glasses used with some recent kiddie flicks, they aren't in use here.

1. DLP, more specifically Texas Instruments, has no hand in what will begin on November 4th. The projectors and technologies being used will be that of Dolby's Digital Cinema. I can't tell you if it'll look better or worse than Texas Instruments' DLP Cinema, but from my experience, I've preferred Kodak's digital projection.

2. It's a partnership between Dolby and REALD specifically, but Disney is throwing money their way to help this process get underway (for theaters to install projectors, polarized screens, etc). Especially since they have additional 3D films being released on the horizon.

3. It's also to note that ILM had some hand in this experiment as they've rendered Chicken Little for 3D.

seen it today and I really liked the movie, the digital 3D was very cool. great sense of depth and some neat 3D stuff, Loved the opening for Disney Digital 3D looked very cool. part in the movie where something as simple as leafs flying around the screen (looked as if they were right in your face)

the 3D made the movie much more immersive and started out so-so but I ended up really liking the movie. I just hope Pixar does there movies in Digital 3D. I can see why so many filmakers are excited for 3D.

I thought when the UFO's and aliens appear the 3D effects really took off, but even before then there were little parts that really conveyed depth exceedlingly well. As for the movie, well it had it flaws, but it was fun.

Critics are hammering this film. One of the criticisms that I find funny is the criticism of all the pop culture jokes and references. Are these the same critics who love two very mediocre films in my opinion, Shrek and Shrek 2, which were basically one giant pop culture reference?

for the most I enjoyed it but two things bothered me - one, if I see one more Disney film where the protagonist only has one parent - I'm gonna scream - enough with that cliche. Secondly, I thought the voice acting of Zach Braff wasn't all that, I thought the choice to have him voice Chicken Little really never worked. It really needed to be a younger less gruffier voice.

I liked it better then the shrek movies always thought they were way overated its better then the dreamworks movies, the 3D really did perception of depth really well. When the UFO beams had the leafs rustling around the ground, it looked as if they were right in your face. the movie started of so-so but it picked up, lots better then what critics say,

Yeah, I didn't like that aspect of CL [OR Shrek, for that matter - Shrek 2 went WAY overboard]. And, didn't we see the whole "let's start the movie off this way" thing from Shrek too?

I was thinking the exact same thing about the single parent thing. However, this has been a Disney staple since time began. As for Zach's voice, I didn't have that much of a problem with it. In fact, I was glad he didn't use his real voice. Now that Martin Laurence/Ashton Kutcher movie they showed a trailer for...