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3D
By: Mac Date: September 16, 2011, 12:35 pm
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The death of 3D?
Who did it...
HTML http://www.slate.com/id/2303814/pagenum/all/#p2
Not news to me, but who am I.
OH, I know, a paying customer who gives a crap.
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Re: 3D
By: ChipRawks Date: September 16, 2011, 1:30 pm
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It's not going anywhere. But there is of course a backlash due
to movie studios that take a regular 2D film and slap the 3D
technology on it and say it's 3D, when in fact the movie was
never intended to be that way. Factor in the ridiculous prices
to see 3D over it's cheaper counterpart, then you have a recipe
for disgruntled patrons that aren't getting what they thought
they would be getting: a true 3D experience.
3D will go away for awhile and then another hot-shot director
will dust it off and bring it back. Remains to be seen if the
storytelling will finally catch up to the technology and have a
true movie-going experience as opposed to some Special FX
experience.
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3D Films: Pros and Cons
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 1, 2012, 1:35 pm
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[center]3D: Plumbing the depths of your wallet
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG5AUaexHVE
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Re: 3D Films: Pros and Cons
By: Mac Date: April 1, 2012, 7:20 pm
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Yep, saw this on Sunday Morning and completely agree. I love the
one statement... Add 3D is a commercial decision... not a
creative one.
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Re: 3D
By: Mac Date: May 23, 2012, 5:25 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]G.I. Joe : Retaliation moving to March 2013, to
become 3D and capture foreign market[/glow]
EXCLUSIVE: The sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation was supposed to come
out this summer on June 29th. But I’ve learned that Paramount is
moving the movie nine months to March 29, 2013, to add 3D.
“We’re going to do a conscientious 3D job because we’ve seen how
it can better box office internationally,” one of the studio
execs just told me. “Jim Cameron did all of Titanic‘s 3D in post
– and look how well that movie turned out.” Paramount has had
luck delaying films before: its decision to move Martin
Scorsese’s Shutter Island gave the director his biggest box
office hit ever. And right now, 3D is huge internationally, with
Russia and China building new 3D theaters by the week. Also the
execs say that the blockbuster performance of The Hunger Games
shows that March can be a prime time of the year to release
movies. Of course, Paramount had to talk its partners on GI Joe
2 into the extra nine months of carrying costs – MGM/Spyglass
which has 25%, and David Ellison’s Skydance which has another
25%. The $125M-budgeted actioner stars Channing Tatum, Dwayne
‘The Rock’ Johnson, and Bruce Willis and is directed by John
Chu.
Really...seriously. That's what their going with?
Something is wrong. It's a bad movie. Running from Avengers.
C'mon, what is it really?
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Re: 3D
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 23, 2012, 5:29 pm
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Yeah, I've NEVER heard of a Studio giving up a prime time slot
in the Summer...."willingly". That's at least 75 Million bucks
they just lost domestically.
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Re: 3D
By: Mac Date: May 30, 2012, 5:45 am
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It's been nearly a week now since Paramount yanked G.I. Joe
Retaliation from its schedules, just over a month before it was
due in cinemas. That was in spite of having the merchandising in
place, the advertising campaign in full swing, and the
promotional work underway.
The officially-given reason for the delay was to add on 3D,
which would enable Paramount to recoup more cash from non-US
markets, where 3D continues to boom. As such, the film has been
bumped back to March 2013.
However, as we speculated here, the 3D sounded like a cover
story. That Paramount blinked when it stared into the heart of
one of the most competitive seasons of summer blockbusters in
years. It basically feared its film was going to get swamped, in
much the same way Battleship had been when it took on The
Avengers at the US box office a week or two back.
Inevitably, a week down the line, one or two further details
have emerged, and we weren't a million miles off the mark.
According to a new report over at Deadline, there are some
problems with the film, that will be fixed in the months ahead.
Reshoots are planned, after test scores on the movie reportedly
weren't encouraging. Furthermore, there was a genuine fear, it
seems, that the movie was going to get blasted away at the box
office, especially with The Amazing Spider-Man arriving one week
later.
But there was a factor that we hadn't considered, that might
just turn out to be one of the main reasons behind the delay:
Channing Tatum.
Tatum appeared in the first G.I. Joe movie, but the plan was to
kill him off early in the second one. However, this year, he's
appeared in two big hits to date - The Vow and 21 Jump Street -
and his upcoming stripper comedy, Magic Mike, is expected to
make it three in a row. Paramount, therefore, is not keen to
throw Tatum away.
Thus, moving G.I. Joe's release date first of all stops a direct
competition with Magic Mike. And secondly, presumably it means
that Tatum's character is now set to survive, and be as beefed
up as reshoots will allow.
One interesting point in the Deadline article is a brief line
about director Jon M Chu. The site reports that Chu is
"shellshocked" about the late-in-the-day delay.
We'll keep you posted on G.I. Joe: Retaliation as we hear more.
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Re: 3D
By: Mac Date: January 26, 2013, 8:49 am
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This is pretty good article pointing out how perception,
finances and numbers can be spun...
[glow=red,2,300]BLOG Dredded 3D Strikes Again[/glow]
HTML http://media.sfx.co.uk/files/2013/01/dredd-3d-blu-ray-cover-237x300.jpg
Dave Golder
[quote]It’s been a while since I’ve had a moan about 3D in
general and the Dredd 3D release in particular. I really thought
I’d said my piece on it, at least enough to get the anger I felt
at the way audiences were treated over the release of Dredd in
the cinemas off my chest. But no, the 3D pimping tactics have
managed to get my back up once again.
Today I read this article over on IGN. The headline attracted
me: “Dredd 3D Prevails In The Home Video Market”. I’d heard that
Dredd was doing very well since the DVD/Blu-ray had been
released. I’d heard tales of the Blu-ray being sold-out in
various supermarkets and that the film was flying of the shelves
and topping the charts in most others. I’d heard that it was
doing well in the US and in other markets. This is all great
news and after the poor cinema showing it’s heartening to see.
I’m a huge fan of Judge Dredd and it’s great to see the film
doing so well and if this leads to a sequel I’ll be very happy,
well, at least until the title ends up being Dredd2 3D or some
such.
But like every other stage of the release of this film, the home
release is being tainted by dodgy 3D sales tactics. It seems the
chart-topping success of the home release of the film is being
used as a big green light for 3D. Again a
production/distribution company has stacked the deck in favour
of the result they want and is now patting itself on the back
for a job well done.
Back in November, when I saw the formats Dredd was going to be
released in for the home market – a single DVD and a Blu-ray
combo which included both 2D and 3D versions of the film, but no
single 2D Blu-ray – I feared this would happen. I feared that
releasing a Blu-ray which contained both 2D and 3D copies would
force people to buy the 3D even if they didn’t want it and any
sales figures would ignore the 2D version and give the
distributors licence to say that 3D was the reason it was
selling well.
And it seems that’s exactly what Dredd’s distributors Lionsgate
are saying. In the interview on IGN Ron Schwartz , Lionsgate
executive VP and general manager of Home Entertainment said,
“We’re also pleased that a film released on 3D Blu-ray was able
to top the sales charts, a clear reflection of how quality films
in this up and coming format can find their audience.”
But it isn’t really is it Ron?
If there had been two separate 2D and 3D Blu-ray releases and
the 3D one was far out-selling the 2D one, then they’d have
grounds to make this claim. But they didn’t do that. They
released just one version, lumping both formats together; if we
wanted a 2D version the film on Blu-ray then we had to get the
3D release too – we had no choice – and they are using sales
figure to tell themselves that 3D is what everybody wanted.
Which if they took the time to read any sci-fi forums or social
media they would find just isn’t the case. There are a lot of
people who are not very happy about the tactics used to show
this film. Half the people I know didn’t get to see the film in
the cinema because it was only available in 3D in their area and
they either dislike the format or just plain can’t see it. Many
of them were waiting for the home release to buy the film and
see it for the first time. I know of many of them who were loath
the buy a format which contained a 3D version that they would
never watch. But for the love of the character of Dredd and a
desire to see the film they bought it anyway.
I’ve blogged before about the fact that 3D screening tactics in
cinema seem more and more skewed to make 3D look like what
everybody wants and it seems that tactic is making its way into
the home market too. In my previous blog we included a poll
which revealed that 69% of the people who voted either didn’t
want 3D or couldn’t see it. Two thirds of people who would quite
happily see it disappear and yet here we are again forced to
accept it if we want to buy a film we want in our chosen
platform.
The film companies and distributors just don’t seem to care
about the opinion of people. They have their shiny new toy and
no matter how many customers don’t want or can’t see 3D they
seem to just want to continue to tell themselves just how
brilliant it is while making sure that the money spent on
developing this technology was worth the money. Just how will
they screw us over next?[/quote]
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Re: 3D
By: Chiprocks1 Date: January 26, 2013, 8:59 am
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Threads......merged. *Cue Merging Sound FX* Beeeoooop.
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Re: 3D
By: Mac Date: January 26, 2013, 9:11 am
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[quote]Threads......merged. *Cue Merging Sound FX*
Beeeoooop.[/quote]
Ah, dreaming of becoming a Foley artist?
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