3-D is taking over!!
01-26-09 | 01:22 PM
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3-D is taking over!!
I didn't know where else to possible post this but:
I can't wait for this to come to the states. (um, pardon the pun)
3-D technology is quickly becoming very popular with almost every director considering enhancing their films with the 3-D treatment. This new attraction has now moved to trailers and even TV shows. So why stop there?.
M&C is reporting that Hong Kong filmmakers are preparing to release the world's first pornographic movie in 3-D. Shooting on the Chinese-language film "3D Sex And Zen," budgeted at $4 million, is scheduled for April with producers promising some of the most realistic close-up sex scenes ever.
"Just imagine that you'll be watching it as if you were sitting beside the bed," said Stephen Shiu. "There will be many close-ups. It will look as if the actresses are only a few centimeters from the audience."
A Hong Kong-based special effects company that has worked on major blockbusters including "The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D" will help produce the 3-D images for the sex movie.
M&C is reporting that Hong Kong filmmakers are preparing to release the world's first pornographic movie in 3-D. Shooting on the Chinese-language film "3D Sex And Zen," budgeted at $4 million, is scheduled for April with producers promising some of the most realistic close-up sex scenes ever.
"Just imagine that you'll be watching it as if you were sitting beside the bed," said Stephen Shiu. "There will be many close-ups. It will look as if the actresses are only a few centimeters from the audience."
A Hong Kong-based special effects company that has worked on major blockbusters including "The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D" will help produce the 3-D images for the sex movie.
01-26-09 | 02:10 PM
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yet 'Sex and Zen' takes the cake for inventive use of props getting in places where the sun don't shine - say a flute. Can you imagine a scene similiar to 'In the Realm of the Senses' - "egg scene" 
flying AT your face 
flying AT your face
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01-26-09 | 06:49 PM
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I had a lot of fun watching My Bloody Valentine so i'll keep an open mind.
01-26-09 | 08:30 PM
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There do seem to be quite a few 3-D films on the horizon: Tintin, Frankenweenie, Alice in Wonderland, the Piranha remake, Avatar, Coraline, Up, Final Destination 4, etc.
01-27-09 | 08:37 AM
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01-27-09 | 09:54 AM
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Re: 3-D is taking over!!
It already has!
The 3-D boom of 1953-54 lasted less than 18 months, and most of the fifty-one 3-D features made in the United States at the time were produced between February and September 1953; when CinemaScope hit. It came and went that quickly.
There have already been close to twenty 3-D features (not counting IMAX documentaries, etc) that have been released since 2003; with at least 30 more in the pipeline.
In 2009 alone: MY BLOODY VALENTINE, CORALINE, JONAS BROTHERS EXPERIENCE, THE DARK COUNTRY, SCAR, ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, FINAL DESTINATION: DEATH TRIP, UP, MONSTERS VS ALIENS, TOY STORY, G-FORCE, AVATAR, with plenty more in production for next year. Even, shudder, STEP UP 3-D!
Paramount is even offering a special deal to theaters who upgrade to Digital 3-D: no digital print fees. They want the number of theaters up to 2000 quickly so they can realize more money from upcoming movies.
The trend has been in the combo 2-D/3-D releases that every single movie so far has sold at least 3 times as many tickets in 3-D as 2-D in markets where both were shown; with MY BLOODY VALENTINE the figure has been reported as 6 to 1 in favor of 3-D. Over 70% of the first weekend's take came from the 3-D version, which was only playing in 1/3 of the venues.
The 3-D boom of 1953-54 lasted less than 18 months, and most of the fifty-one 3-D features made in the United States at the time were produced between February and September 1953; when CinemaScope hit. It came and went that quickly.
There have already been close to twenty 3-D features (not counting IMAX documentaries, etc) that have been released since 2003; with at least 30 more in the pipeline.
In 2009 alone: MY BLOODY VALENTINE, CORALINE, JONAS BROTHERS EXPERIENCE, THE DARK COUNTRY, SCAR, ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, FINAL DESTINATION: DEATH TRIP, UP, MONSTERS VS ALIENS, TOY STORY, G-FORCE, AVATAR, with plenty more in production for next year. Even, shudder, STEP UP 3-D!
Paramount is even offering a special deal to theaters who upgrade to Digital 3-D: no digital print fees. They want the number of theaters up to 2000 quickly so they can realize more money from upcoming movies.
The trend has been in the combo 2-D/3-D releases that every single movie so far has sold at least 3 times as many tickets in 3-D as 2-D in markets where both were shown; with MY BLOODY VALENTINE the figure has been reported as 6 to 1 in favor of 3-D. Over 70% of the first weekend's take came from the 3-D version, which was only playing in 1/3 of the venues.
01-27-09 | 10:08 AM
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Re: 3-D is taking over!!
It already has!
The 3-D boom of 1953-54 lasted less than 18 months, and most of the fifty-one 3-D features made in the United States at the time were produced between February and September 1953; when CinemaScope hit. It came and went that quickly.
There have already been close to twenty 3-D features (not counting IMAX documentaries, etc) that have been released since 2003; with at least 30 more in the pipeline.
In 2009 alone: MY BLOODY VALENTINE, CORALINE, JONAS BROTHERS EXPERIENCE, THE DARK COUNTRY, SCAR, ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, FINAL DESTINATION: DEATH TRIP, UP, MONSTERS VS ALIENS, TOY STORY, G-FORCE, AVATAR, with plenty more in production for next year. Even, shudder, STEP UP 3-D!
Paramount is even offering a special deal to theaters who upgrade to Digital 3-D: no digital print fees. They want the number of theaters up to 2000 quickly so they can realize more money from upcoming movies.
The trend has been in the combo 2-D/3-D releases that every single movie so far has sold at least 3 times as many tickets in 3-D as 2-D in markets where both were shown; with MY BLOODY VALENTINE the figure has been reported as 6 to 1 in favor of 3-D. Over 70% of the first weekend's take came from the 3-D version, which was only playing in 1/3 of the venues.
The 3-D boom of 1953-54 lasted less than 18 months, and most of the fifty-one 3-D features made in the United States at the time were produced between February and September 1953; when CinemaScope hit. It came and went that quickly.
There have already been close to twenty 3-D features (not counting IMAX documentaries, etc) that have been released since 2003; with at least 30 more in the pipeline.
In 2009 alone: MY BLOODY VALENTINE, CORALINE, JONAS BROTHERS EXPERIENCE, THE DARK COUNTRY, SCAR, ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, FINAL DESTINATION: DEATH TRIP, UP, MONSTERS VS ALIENS, TOY STORY, G-FORCE, AVATAR, with plenty more in production for next year. Even, shudder, STEP UP 3-D!
Paramount is even offering a special deal to theaters who upgrade to Digital 3-D: no digital print fees. They want the number of theaters up to 2000 quickly so they can realize more money from upcoming movies.
The trend has been in the combo 2-D/3-D releases that every single movie so far has sold at least 3 times as many tickets in 3-D as 2-D in markets where both were shown; with MY BLOODY VALENTINE the figure has been reported as 6 to 1 in favor of 3-D. Over 70% of the first weekend's take came from the 3-D version, which was only playing in 1/3 of the venues.
Box Office magazine seems to think Piranha 3 will be out in July - from what I've read online and here in DVDTalk, it seems like it hasn't even been filmed yet.
as for upgrading, the recent news that AMC is interested in doing a massive implementation of IMAX-Digital 3D screens seems a tad hypocritical. IMAX is far more expensive than DLP-3D and AMC had originally announced there were plans to upgrade theatres with both standard DLP and 3D units - that never happened.
01-27-09 | 10:12 AM
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Everything I've read (including an interview with the director) states that PIRANHA's production was delayed a bit and that it will be shot this spring with an early 2010 release in mind.
01-27-09 | 10:16 AM
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My Bloody Valemtine was real good fun. It makes average movie that most would forget in a couple of days more relevant. As for the porn thats sounds great till you feel like some freaking guy just came on your face. Not too cool then.
01-27-09 | 03:06 PM
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That'd be part of the fun. It'd be a whole buncha people ducking out of the way.
03-06-09 | 02:04 PM
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Re: 3-D is taking over!!
It already has!
The 3-D boom of 1953-54 lasted less than 18 months, and most of the fifty-one 3-D features made in the United States at the time were produced between February and September 1953; when CinemaScope hit. It came and went that quickly.
There have already been close to twenty 3-D features (not counting IMAX documentaries, etc) that have been released since 2003; with at least 30 more in the pipeline.
In 2009 alone: MY BLOODY VALENTINE, CORALINE, JONAS BROTHERS EXPERIENCE, THE DARK COUNTRY, SCAR, ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, FINAL DESTINATION: DEATH TRIP, UP, MONSTERS VS ALIENS, TOY STORY, G-FORCE, AVATAR, with plenty more in production for next year. Even, shudder, STEP UP 3-D!
Paramount is even offering a special deal to theaters who upgrade to Digital 3-D: no digital print fees. They want the number of theaters up to 2000 quickly so they can realize more money from upcoming movies.
The trend has been in the combo 2-D/3-D releases that every single movie so far has sold at least 3 times as many tickets in 3-D as 2-D in markets where both were shown; with MY BLOODY VALENTINE the figure has been reported as 6 to 1 in favor of 3-D. Over 70% of the first weekend's take came from the 3-D version, which was only playing in 1/3 of the venues.
The 3-D boom of 1953-54 lasted less than 18 months, and most of the fifty-one 3-D features made in the United States at the time were produced between February and September 1953; when CinemaScope hit. It came and went that quickly.
There have already been close to twenty 3-D features (not counting IMAX documentaries, etc) that have been released since 2003; with at least 30 more in the pipeline.
In 2009 alone: MY BLOODY VALENTINE, CORALINE, JONAS BROTHERS EXPERIENCE, THE DARK COUNTRY, SCAR, ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, FINAL DESTINATION: DEATH TRIP, UP, MONSTERS VS ALIENS, TOY STORY, G-FORCE, AVATAR, with plenty more in production for next year. Even, shudder, STEP UP 3-D!
Paramount is even offering a special deal to theaters who upgrade to Digital 3-D: no digital print fees. They want the number of theaters up to 2000 quickly so they can realize more money from upcoming movies.
The trend has been in the combo 2-D/3-D releases that every single movie so far has sold at least 3 times as many tickets in 3-D as 2-D in markets where both were shown; with MY BLOODY VALENTINE the figure has been reported as 6 to 1 in favor of 3-D. Over 70% of the first weekend's take came from the 3-D version, which was only playing in 1/3 of the venues.
Coraline got great reviews too. RottenTomatoes said "Consensus: With its vivid stop-motion animation combined with Neil Gaiman's imaginative story, Coraline is a film that's both visually stunning and wondrously entertaining."
03-06-09 | 02:46 PM
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03-06-09 | 02:59 PM
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I like "regular" 3D movies (not the CGI films). I had a lot of fun at My Bloody Valentine, even though the movie sucked. I'd be down for more.
03-06-09 | 03:03 PM
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Personally, I hate all this new 3-D stuff and wish it would just go away. It just makes everything look fake. Even the "live action" stuff.
03-06-09 | 03:15 PM
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03-07-09 | 12:05 PM
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EDIT x2: Nightmare Before Christmas? Great movie. Don't count it as a 3-D movie.
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