Have they announced the date for ticket sales to begin? on the net?

Im curious because I am wanting to get tickets to the DLP theater and I know they go quick. I want to add a reminder to my calendar.

Any info is appreciated.

Not sure yet; it seems quite early still, but I expect early April would be a good time to check.

usually the earliest you can buy tickets is a week in advance.

talking about DLP, the Merrifield National Amusement theatre in VA, is in a sucky auditorium, sucky seats, sucky sound.

I plan on seeing this at the DC areas only other DLP theatre - the Loews Rio in Gaithersburg Maryland.

For Episodes I and II it was earlier than 1 week. It may have been 1 month, depending on the theater and theater chain.

No, I remember that with TPM and AOTC, it was about 3 weeks to a month early I believe.

I just thought that maybe they had announced a specific date for sales.

If you live in/near a major city, you may also want to check at StarWars.com to see if there is a charity screening. Lucas is releasing it a week early to select charity screenings, just like he did with Episode II. The tickets will be a bit more than $10 (more like $250), but the money goes to local youth charities.

I already have tickets to see Episode III. On May 12.

Or...you know someone who will get advanced tickets anyway...and see it for free a week before.

But yeah, I was wondering this myself since I will definitely be there at midnight. Last time, they were on sale at least a month beforehand here in NYC.

Yeah, there are very few DLP theaters in the country. I think less than 30 (i remember from a Ebert review).

AOTC first day tickets at the DLP here in the DFW area sold out very, very quickly.

If you buy them right when they go on sale, there shouldnt be a problem.

You're kidding right?

Advanced ticket sales for Episode 3 will start sometime in mid-to-late April. The midnight showings will go up for sale first with the later showings to go up sometime there after.

This is an event movie with tons of hype surrounding it, and we haven't had one as big as Episode 3 since The Matrix Reloaded.

[EDIT: Yeah, Spider-man 2 could be considered an event movie, but I remember being able to buy tickets for Reloaded over a month in advance unlike Spider-man 2. ]

not to go too off the tangent here, but I find it amazing that DLP isn't really catching on with theatres - is it still cost prohibitive? Here in the DC metropolitan area less than half a dozen new theatres have opened within the last three years and none (sans the AFI) have installed a DLP system, with such little support and the way things are progressing (or isn't in this case) digital projection will never succeed in my mind.

Has there been any rumours if Lucas is releasing a IMAX version of Ep III as well?

I think it is still too expensive.

The Cinemark Legacy theater in Plano has 2 DLP screens and thats it. It is the only one in North Texas.

It is simply unbelievable though. I have seen many, many movies there (like AOTC, finding nemo, pirates of the caribbean, troy and so on). It is a big difference!

I think I am going this weekend to see Robots.

After seeing those movies there, I bought myself a DLP tv.

funny you should mention that, I was in New York City last weekend and while the Kips Bay theatre (DLP presentation of Robots) was a block away from where I was staying, I decided to trek on over to the Lincoln Square theatres to see Robots in the IMAX format - wow, now that was cool. (no Ep III trailer though).

This is pretty much why they haven't converted. The future isn't clear on where it will be going and theaters really don't have the money to invest in something that they are not certain will be the future.

well neither are the studios helping either. Fox, Warners, Disney... I think that's it.

And at this point of the game, I believe that Warner would rather concentrate more on IMAX-DMR releases than focus on DLP releases, especially since there are more IMAX theaters than there are DLP theaters at the current moment.

Not only that, I'm not a big fan of DLP. When you go to a theater that's projecting a flick in a film-type format (such as 35mm or IMAX-DMR), any seat in the house is technically a "good" seat. Whereas in a theater with DLP, the closer you get to the screen, the more it looks like a shitty big screen television. It's nice from a far, but far from nice.

Hmm, ive never sat on the front row of a DLP theater, but IMO, a DLP experience is better than IMAX. Ive been to both.

When I saw Troy in DLP, the colors were so amazingly bright and vibrant. And, the contrast between night and day scenes was really awesome. The day scenes were so bright and almost like you were watching it through a window.

IMAX to me was just a really big screen.

I do not think there is anything better out there right now than watching a digital movie in a DLP theater.

I believe the DLP screen here in DFW area is about 65-75 feet. Not sure about the IMAX one.

you probably saw TI's 2K DLP. Sony's 4K looks much better.

We only had DLP in Las Vegas for 2 months.

We got The Rookie and Attack of the Clones.

And then DLP was gone from Vegas forever.

True, but it would depend on what the film was shot with, not what it was projected with. I personally think the mininum standards for digital needs to be 6k or even 8k. With the rapid explosion of progress with digital cameras and projectors, that should be the bare minimum.

The only theater with DLP in Chicago that I know of was McClurg Court..They went out business...probably one in the suburbs or something.

I remember for AOTC the theater was one that had yet to adopt online sales, so everyone had to line up and do it the old fashioned way! While I am sure I could have spent my time better, the atmosphere was great.

Looks like there are about 66 in the US now. Here are the US/Canada/Mexico locations. You can change the search location at the top of the page.

http://www.dlp.com/dlp_cinema/dlp_ci...rch_region.asp

Thats cool.

I didn't know that the Magnolia in Dallas has one too! They must have just opened it within the last year.

I remember when Episode 2 came out, Lucas said that Episode 3 would only be released on DLP theaters.

Guess the technology hasn't taken off as quickly as he'd hoped.