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...bonanza, so they're spending now to reap cash later. In early March, Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, a company owned by the two largest theater chains, Cinemark and AMC, announced it had raised $660 million to finance the conversion of 14,000 North American movie screens to the digital format, including 3-D. The number of converted screens should be up to 5,000 by year...
...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...
...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 of the Titans and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I - that might have been released in the traditional format but are instead going out in 3-D. There looks to be no congestion of screens for the rest of the year as there is this week. (See the top 10 actor-director pairings...
...Tintin movie. Will other moguls dare make the next film in the Transformers or James Bond franchise in a flat-screen version? It's more likely that producers, seeing the stratospheric grosses for Avatar and Alice and the quadrupling of screens able to show films in any format, will go where the money...
Like the wailing of the Stygian witches, the critical cry has arisen against Clash of the Titans. This mythological epic, starring Avatar's Sam Worthington as the ancient adventurer Perseus, has endured a typhoon of negative reviews, for four reasons. One: After shooting the picture in the traditional format, the filmmakers slapped on 3-D effects at the last minute. Two: Director Louis Leterrier and his team dared to remake the 1981 original, replacing stop-motion genius Ray Harryhausen's handcrafted creatures - Medusa, the Kraken, the giant scorpions, etc. - with computer-generated ones. Three: The new picture reduces the role...