Movies are evolving ever more into 3-D, a shake-up of the medium that has been compared to the advent of sound or color in motion pictures.
But if digital 3-D is so revolutionary, it will need to go beyond fantasy and animated blockbusters to drama and live action comedy. Explorations of Pandora may seem like the [...]

Bob Iger wasn’t bluffing.
The Disney CEO has been telling Wall Street for months that he’s going to have studio executives begin fiddling with traditional movie release windows, and it appears the time has arrived for the first grand experiment.
A day after the revelation that U.K. exhibitors are being asked to accept a tightened theatrical window on Disney’s [...]

Studio executives around town have been scrutinizing film slates for opportunities to expand forays into 3D releasing. Warners has been testing footage from its upcoming “Clash of the Titans” — converted into 3D by an outside vendor — and the tests have gone so well that the studio has decided to release not only “Titans” [...]

Reasonable people can debate the artistic merits of James Cameron’s work. Anyone for whom Arnold Schwarzenegger is a muse isn’t likely to specialize in observing the human condition, unless it’s in the aftermath of an exploding building or a run-in with a mercenary robot from the future.
What’s indisputable is that the “Avatar” director’s influence extends beyond his movie [...]

Sony Pictures said Thursday it will release 3D movies on Blu-ray Disc worldwide for the first time, beginning in the summer with the animated release “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.”
The launch is aimed to coincide with the summer arrival of Sony Electronics’ 3D compatible Bravia LCD televisions and 3D compatible Blu-ray disc players.
“3D entertainment [...]

Fans scrambled to see 3-D movies such as “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” in theaters this year and new 3-D televisions could soon have home viewers feeling as if they’re surrounded by a spaghetti hurricane on their couches.
Next year major electronics manufacturers Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. plan to introduce 3-D-capable high-definition televisions for [...]

Cinedigm said on Monday it will host the first live, virtual question-and-answer session between a film’s cast in one location and audiences in separate theaters to show off a new way that digitally equipped cinemas can lure audiences.
On June 19, moviegoers in 17 U.S. cities will be able text-message questions to the cast of independent [...]

Martin Scorsese, as ardent an advocate as there is for serving up film the old-fashioned way, has decided to embrace digital distribution for movies restored by his World Cinema Foundation.

The films that the organization restores every year — often obscure titles like “Dry Summer,” a Turkish picture from 1936 — will now be available online through theauteurs.com, a Web [...]

“The Jazz Singer” brought sound to the movies. “Becky Sharp” did the same for color. Now “Monsters vs. Aliens” is accelerating Hollywood’s 3-D revolution.
Change in the movie business usually happens at a glacial pace, but the surging popularity of 3-D movies, dramatized by “Monsters vs. Aliens’ ” $59.3-million opening weekend — the biggest for a 3-D movie [...]

Alex Proyas has made plenty of films in traditional fashion, shooting Dark City, The Crow and I, Robot on old-fashioned celluloid.  For his new sci-fi thriller Knowing, the Australian director decided to go digital for the first time and put the ultrahigh-resolution RED camera to the test.  Now that he’s worked out the kinks, Proyas says, “There’s no going back.”
“The results [...]