ARE 3D MOVIES ON THE WAY OUT
Source: SMH.com
That’s the question Hollywood executives are asking after a post-Avatar slump.
Hollywood will continue to push 3-D movies to bolster box-office revenue even if profits aren’t what the studios envisioned when “Avatar” ignited widespread enthusiasm for the format.
Studios will release at least 26 films in 3-D next year, up from 22 in 2010, according to Hollywood.com Box-Office. 3-D winners include James Cameron’s Avatar, the No. 1 film of all time, and Walt Disney Co.’s Toy Story 3.
“Jim showed how it can be done well,” Bill Mechanic, the former chairman of Twentieth Century Fox and producer of the 2009 3-D release “Coraline,” said in an interview. “A lot of it depends on how you use it.”
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M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S ‘DEVIL’ ISN’T GREAT, BUT IT’S ALSO NOT ‘THE LAST AIRBENDER’
Source: examiner.com
his weekend, the latest film covered in M. Night Shyamalan’s fingerprints gets dumped into theaters. Would the film– you know the one: five people trapped in an elevator, and one of ’em’s the Devil– be any better than Shyamalan’s last two offerings, or more of the same? Devil didn’t screen for critics this week, but your friendly, neighborhood Film Geek Examiner was able to catch a screening at the Drafthouse earlier today. Read on for the review, my fellow film geeks…
This summer, the bad movie to beat was Jonah Hex. If there’s a film that approximates that movie’s flat-out ineptitude, it’s gotta be The Last Airbender. If we’re going to be perfectly honest, I thought that Jonah Hex was the worst of the two, but The Last Airbender wasn’t a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. It was, however, a sort-of death knell for the career of M. Night Shyamalan, a completion of a “bad cinema” hat trick that began with Lady in The Water, continued on to The Happening, and ending with The Last Airbender.
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I will happily put my hand up as someone who doesn’t need to see every movie in 3D – ‘Clash of the Titans’ for instance, would have been better had it not been converted to capatalize on Avatar’s success. 3D, for me, should make movies stand out that are as unique as Avatar, I guess. What do you think? There also looks to be hope left for M. Night Shyamalan’s movie career from the review – what do you think of ‘The devil’?
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