Quote:Originally Posted by Michael Reuben /forum/thread/298725/3-d-movies-or-...-more-money-out-of-moviegoers/30#post_3669148
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/03/10/3-d-films-added-new-dimension-to-box-office-grosses-says-mpaa-report/ Let the groaning resume!Domestic ticket sales to 2-D theaters last year edged up just 0.8%, to $9.47 billion, according to a numbers-heavy report released Wednesday by the MPAA. Meanwhile, 3-D admissions for the year were up nearly fivefold, to $1.14 billion, compared with just $240 million in 2008. Put those together and voila: $10.6 billion in total ticket sales. The trend is only going to get more pronounced this year. For one thing, 2009 included just a couple weeks of “Avatar’s” record-setting theatrical run; the film has done more than 60% of its theatrical business since the New Year. And the 2010 release schedule is packed with other new 3-D releases, from last weekend’s record-setting “Alice in Wonderland” opening through the next “Harry Potter” installment, due close to the holidays. And let’s not forget the third, 3-D installment of the “Step Up” franchise, which promises to bring the same kind of technological transformation to steamy dance dramas that “Avatar” brought to interplanetary romance.
More than two sides to 3-D movie debate at ShoWest"I'm a grown man; I don't need to see things jumping out at me," says Zach Galifianakis, star of The Hangover and winner of ShoWest's comedy star of the year award. "If I want to see a bird flying toward me, I'll walk out into my yard. It seems like a great effect but not much more."
Avatar producer Jon Landau, who won the show's innovation award along with director James Cameron, says critics are viewing 3-D too narrowly. "No one would say we shouldn't have gone to sound or color," Landau says. "People are treating it as a gimmick, instead of a tool."
But not all stars want that tool applied on them. "It was hard enough accepting high-definition screens," cracks Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker, who was at ShoWest to pick up the best-ensemble prize. "Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I'm a 2-D girl," Parker says. "I don't want to look like I'm crawling out of the screen at people."
Katherine Heigl sees it differently. "Life," she says, "is in 3-D."
These seem like myopic attituded to me. They seem to equate 3-D with things jumping out of the screen at you. Granted, many 3-D films were like that, but that's certainly not the way it has to be. Everyone loved Avatar in 3-D. Is that the only acceptable film that there could ever be made in 3-D? Now, I can understand the some of the skeptcism among filmmakers around converting a 2-D film to 3-D (although it can be done to perfectly acceptable effect as the Toy Story re-release showed) And some filmmakers feel perhaps that their projects wouldn't be a good fit for 3-D, and that's fine. But I still don't get where there's a certain faction of people who seem to actively against it (although I can understand why it was hard for Sarah Jessica Parker to accept High Definition Television)"I'm a grown man; I don't need to see things jumping out at me," says Zach Galifianakis, star of The Hangover and winner of ShoWest's comedy star of the year award. "If I want to see a bird flying toward me, I'll walk out into my yard. It seems like a great effect but not much more."
But not all stars want that tool applied on them. "It was hard enough accepting high-definition screens," cracks Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker, who was at ShoWest to pick up the best-ensemble prize. "Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I'm a 2-D girl," Parker says. "I don't want to look like I'm crawling out of the screen at people."
Originally Posted by WillG
I can understand the some of the skeptcism among filmmakers around converting a 2-D film to 3-D (although it can be done to perfectly acceptable effect as the Toy Story re-release showed)
I just saw Clash Of The Titans and it would be terrible in any dimension.Originally Posted by mattCR
I've heard this is good in 2D,
Redoing Titanic in 3-D would be totally his idea. That is to say, it would not be done if he didn't want it to be.I'll even go so far as to say that if this is James Cameron's idea I'm highly disappointed in him.