List of films being released in 3-D
This being a slow news day, I thought it would be interesting to listl the films currently slated for the 3-D treatment, and maybe some of films rumoured to take the ever popular extra dimension.
Piranha 3-D-Alexandre Aja of The Hills Have Eyes remake fame is currently in preproduction remaking this horror film scheduled for a late 2010 release.
 Alice in Wonderland- Tim Burtons remake of the classic Disney cartoon is getting a 2010 release with Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter starring.
Toy Story 1 and 2 are being given a re-release in theatres and being converted to 3-D, with both looking for a 2010 release to build hype for the upcoming Toy Story 3 sequel.
Avatar- James Cameron’s anticipated first film since his Oscar winning Titanic back in 1997, is slowly creeping closer and closer to its release date of December 18th of this year.
G-Force- Jerry Bruckheimer’s upcoming children’s film featuring talking Guinea Pigs (don’t worry you read that right) is getting the 3-D treatment, and featuring the voices of Penelope Cruz and Nicolas Cage.
UP- Pixar‘s latest film featuring the voice and startling similarity to Ed Asner is coming to theatres this summer. UP, marks Pixar‘s first foray into the 3-D arena.Â
Battle for Tera- This animated film featuring the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, David Cross, and Justin Long is beginning it’s run on May 1st of this year.
Monsters Vs. Aliens-Dreamworks Co-Owner Jeffrey Katzenberg, has been touting 3-D technology for quite some time now so let’s see if his first foray into 3-D films is worth the trip when Seth Rogen and Reese Witherspoon lend their voice talents this March 27th.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs- The third and final (?) entry into the animated tale of scrat and the rest of the pre historic creatures make their debut this September 28th 2009.
A Christmas Carol-Robert Zemeckis makes his anticipated return this christmas in yet another 3-D animated tale this time starring Jim Carrey taking 4 roles including the role Ebenezer Scrooge.
Planet 51- The Rock stars with the beautiful Jessica Biel in this upcoming animated film which has the stars lending their voices to tell the tale of an alien planet living in fear of an alien invasion. The invasion starts November 20th 2009.
Rango-Gore Verbinski recently announced this animated tale as an upcoming project featuring the voice of Johnny Depp which will be filmed in 3-D. No release date has been announced.
Final Destination Death Trip 3d- The fourth installment in the popular horror franchise  will bring viewers to 3d carnage during a Nascar type race on August 14th 2009. Thanks to killerfilm reader SagiMewtwo for the heads up.
Films rumoured for a 3-D treatment:
The Lord of the rings have often been touted as being re released in 3-D, along with King Kong as Peter Jackson was said to have been using the technology at the time.Â
Battle Angel- James Cameron has been stating that he would be making films in 3-D and that he would love to tackle this film as his next project. Of course he said this before Avatar so who knows when he will work again.
Re-Animator-I struggled to put this one in rumoured, as day by day it seems closer to fruition. Brian Yuzna who is the films producer, and may direct this film, has stated himself he would like to make the film in 3-D but no approval or confirmation as of yet.
The Avengers-Way too early to tell if this will come.
Crank 3- With the sequel still not released, this is very premature but there have been rumblings.
Thanks to killerfilm reader Will for pointing out that there is also rumours of Star Wars being given the 3D treatment as wel,l cuz as we all know 2 dimensions just isn’t enough. Totally forgot about this one.
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3D is overrated. (But I’m one eye almost blind, which is why the 3D gimmick never works for me, so take my statement with a grain of salt
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ryan Reply:
March 9th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
You should ask your local theater that has 3D what kind of set up they use. My roommate is blind in one eye and so is a projectionist here at the theater. We just installed RealD 3D and both have said they see the 3D affect. The projectionist has been one eye blind since birth and my roommate lost his due to cancer about 4 years ago so thats two different scenarios and opinions regarding it.
The other most prominent digital 3D technology is known as Dolby 3D. There is also IMAX 3D which uses film but I am not sure how that works.
Anyway the jist of it is the way Dolby 3D works is alternating images in each eye and RealD uses polarization. I don’t understand it all too well but they are definitely different.
The projectionist here at work was so giddy that it worked for him as well was my roommate.
What about Star Wars????
daniel Reply:
March 9th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
star wars? good call man I have not heard about that one . but it does sound vaguely familiar. give you props for that one! puttin it up now
The original Star Wars trilogy has been in the works for a while.
I have saw a few 3d movies recently, some seem to use it more as a gimmick rather than something to add to the experience.
daniel Reply:
March 9th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
completely agree with you Fear Cinema. Makes me that much more curious about James Camerons Avatar since it wil be an actual serious film. I did not see Coraline but I had been told the 3D was done really well in that film.
There’s also Final Destination: Death Trip 3D scheduled for August 21st.
daniel Reply:
March 9th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
SagiMewtwo thank you, i missed that one . will certainly post it now.good call
Yeah, you also forgot that Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is also getting this treatment for the opening scene and the cave scene! stupids.
3D is kinda lame. The last and only movie I saw in 3D was Superman Returns. I saw it at an IMAX with 3D. The only problem was there were only parts of the movie in 3D. I was under the impression that the entire movie was 3D. There was nothing posted stating that the movie was not entirely in 3D I just felt jipped.
So are all movies that are in “3D” only partially 3D??????
I hear alot of BS talk about Dawn of the Dead (1978)–is it being made in 3D
or is it BS
Toddyboy
Daniel Herrera Reply:
March 10th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
This one is actually true. In-Three wants to convert the original film to 3-D.
Just wondering what type of 3-D glasses i would need for home veiw of dvd’s. Lets say Piranha or something like that. Thanks
Jon Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Most likely the ones DreamWorks handed out for the Monsters vs Aliens 3-D segment during the Super Bowl.
DreamWorks and Pixar are going to be releasing all their movies from now on in both 3D and 2D and Disney has a list of 17 movies that they will release in the next 3 years in 3D! We have trailers and information.
already got my 3d glasses ready! so what, i wear them all the time