Oooooh! This is really goooood news . . . Beowulf Coming At You in 3D . . . the Neil Gaimon scribed piece will hit the screens in 3D and 2D on the same day and it’s going to be awesome and a half! Robert Zemeckis’ CG adaptation of the epic Old English poem Beowulf…

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The XpanD theatre is billing itself as the next step . . . Next Step in Cinematic Evolution: the New XpanD Theater in Murcia, Spain . . . and it seems not without good reason.

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Engadget reports LG unveils specs of Flatron M4200D 2D/3D display . . . basically another switch set between standard and lenticular 3D views. It’s not really new but it is news in that more of these puppies are finally hitting the market. To early to scream for mass market penetration, but if the innovations we’ve…

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Koolness, nice look Behind The Scenes Of 3D ‘Nightmare’. So, The Nightmare Before Christmas has been converted to Disney Digital 3D. That’s going to make the film so much more powerful on so many levels. Too bad we won’t get to see it that way here. Come on, Taiwan, someone get a digital 3D screen…

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Gamasutra talks to the XBOX Live 360 Camera folks . . . Q&A: GestureTek Talks Xbox 360 Camera Innovation . . . good news in that the camera has a stereoscopic ready chip, bad news is that it’s not quite there yet . . . but it is in the works . . . Your…

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Open Season . . . took Kaye to the film at IMAX last Saturday . . . it has a LOT more ghosting than The Ant Bully we saw (which kicks butt in 3D) but it was still very enjoyable in the huge screen with living 3D. I really wish we had a dolby digital…

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This looks good . . . 3D TV ‘could be three years away’. Read the original article for the full story but the gist from this research group, a European consortium, is that stereoscopic 3D television and film should become common within three years. Holographic television is a bit trickier and would not be available…

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Not out yet but confusing reviewers already . . . Glory Days 2 . . . evidently, it will feature optional 3D glasses . . . Where the 3D glasses fit into this smorgasbord, we’re not sure. On the press release they’re simply the following bullet point: “See the game in real life and feel…

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October 20th . . . in select theatres . . . which usually means not here in Taiwan . . . The Nightmare Before Christmas is back! . . . in 3D! . . . Disney is doing a re-release of the film to celbrate it’s thirteenth year anniversary with a 3D version. Sheesh. I…

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Dolby has announced that they will be developing a digital 3D system for movie theatres that will rival the current systems such as the Real D and In-Three systems.  See here . . . Dolby has announced that they will be developing a digital 3-D system for movie theaters. The company has signed a deal…

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Monster House is taking in on average two and a half times per screen for the 3D version than for the 2D version.  See an analysis here.  This is very good news for the folks backing the 3D turnover of Hollywood and the rest of the film theatre business.  Of course, the number of screens…

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Anne Thompson has a kickin’ essay on digital cinema from the precursors of Monster House to that film’s massive breakthroughs in motion capture (yes, those are REAL people who were filmed via motion capture for the animation, taking the Gollum stuff light years further) to what’s coming very soon with Beowulf and Avatar.  Wow!  See…

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Good news for us stereoscopic cinemaphiles . . . Monster House is doing better on 3D screens than on screens that don’t have the new digital 3D system installed.  See here.  Ant Bully is also pulling in 3D monies.  What does that mean for those of us in Taiwan?  Not a lot . . .…

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Sony has established Imageworks 3D to go ahead with their stereoscopic 3D conversions of feature films . . . see here . . . Sony Pictures Imageworks president Tim Sarnoff recently announced the appointment of Buzz Hays to the position of senior producer for the company’s recently formalized Imageworks 3D stereoscopic pipeline. This pipeline is…

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Monster House is out and it has been released to the largest number of digital 3D screens yet . . . here . . . film companies need a strong way to get folks back in the theatres as home theatre systems, DVD, internet share sites, and the like all cut into movie going for…

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Superman Returns broke IMAX records for a simultaneous release . . . big time . . . now, they need to get the idea that they should present the entire film in 3D, not just segments. As Warner Bros.’ Superman Returns soared at conventional theaters over the Fourth of July weekend, Superman Returns: An IMAX…

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The Clan Phillips ventured forth to the IMAX at Miramar in Taipei to see Superman Returns and the twenty minutes of 3D footage.  The film doth kicketh asseth.  Wow.  This is an amazing Superman and the casting choice to fill the blue tights and red undies was right on the money . . . he’s…

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This is a BIG DEAL . . . exciting news . . . Masuji SUTO just announced Stereo Photo Maker (SPM) 3.1 which has auto-align and other kool options for 3D photography processing including the nifty new window adjustment options for batch processing. English -> http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/index.html German -> http://stereo.jpn.org/ger/index.html French -> http://stereo.jpn.org/fra/index.html Japanese -> http://stereo.jpn.org/jpn/index.html…

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The Phillips Clan . . . Kaye, Lorraine, and Brian . . . along with Gonggong who visited from Hong Kong (Lorraine’s dad) . . . as well as with Gareth Cheng and his dad (Michael) and Kaye’s friend Sun Hsiao-Han and Gareth’s friend August . . . took a roadtrip to Taitung by way…

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It looks like the 3D footage added to Superman Returns is getting good reviews.  We haven’t seen it yet . . . will be at the IMAX Tuesday. Looking forward to it . . . much.  I will post our impressions after we see the show. – Brian

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Superman Returns opens in IMAX here in Taipei the day before we come back from our Taidong trip so we won’t be seeing it on opening day. We’re looking forward to it . . . although the decision to make only PART of the movie 3D seems silly to me . . . I guess…

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3D photographers just may have a new favorite band as Tool uses 3D album as part of CD. The band Tool has included a stereoscopic album in their 10,000 Days CD. The stereophotos were taken by Travis Shinn and the idea for the project came from band member Adam Jones who is also a member…

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Lorraine Phillips writes about the coming wave of 3D digital films for theatres set for 2007 . . . 網路城邦｜【養貓讀書看電影】網誌 . . . assuming the studios can put together enough backing for the digital screen penetration needed. Many of the issues Lorraine brings up have been discussed here many times before but there is very…

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IF Magazine asked Rick McCallum about the Star Wars 3D versions rumored to be in the pipeline for 2007 . . .

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The device looks clunky but the idea is interesting . . . how to make a camera attachment to take 3D Anaglyph Photos. It certainly is a better mount than holding anaglyph red-blue glasses in front of the lens although some folks on my 3D exchange list use a much more elegant design that is…

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