A big blow to film production at Kodak and Fuji

Mackinaw · Oct 9, 2010

George Lucas announced, a few weeks back, that he was going to convert the entire Star Wars saga to 3D. The Phantom Menace" will come out in 2012. Not sure what process he's going to use though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11434545

Jim B.

Photo Engineer · Oct 9, 2010

It is possible to convert old films to 3D. Kodak recently patented one such method. A photo of the Fuji display was posted here recently with the lament on how much the product line had shrunk.

PE

Removed Account2 · Oct 9, 2010

Only way to sustain film production in the long run is supporting the chinese.

Start buing Lucky and aother stuff from China - direct from Hong Kong and send them a strong message that they can keep their lines running.

Kodak and Fuji will die off, no matter what.

Athiril · Oct 9, 2010

The projectors are Sony 4K projectors, seeing as most films are also mastered in 2K before being printed to film... the quality can be much better too, 3D or not.

nickrapak · Oct 9, 2010

clayne said:
3D is the Quadraphonic of 2010.

Total f'ing joke of a technology.

Want more consumers coming to your films? Increase the quality of your content. Gimmicks only go so far - and trust me, 3D is a *gimmick* and a half - thoroughly unneeded for the majority of cinema content.

The problem is that most people are not interested in petty things like "plot", "good acting", and "quality cinematography." They just want blue people to jump out of the screen at them.

clayne · Nov 1, 2010

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/660..._dark_knight_rises_in_2d_a_turning_point.html

I'll say it again: fad.

Sean · Nov 1, 2010

clayne said:
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/660..._dark_knight_rises_in_2d_a_turning_point.html

I'll say it again: fad.

I saw my first 3D movie a few weeks ago (took my 8yr old to see Cats & Dogs). This was at a state of the art new theatre. I didn't like it at all. There was an annoying sheen that permeated a lot of the imagery (hard to explain), there were also glare issues coming from the eye side of my glasses. Also, the effect at it's greatest wasn't anything that wowed me, it just didn't add anything worthwhile to the movie. The 3D tv sets seem the same, however it looks like the latest tech does not require glasses so it will be interesting to see how that looks.

BetterSense · Nov 2, 2010

I hate 3D with the burning passion of a thousand suns, so when my wife and I watched Despicable Me, we watched it in 2D. Even though it was 2D, I kept having strange gut feelings about the direction until I realized that those strange moments were obviously intended as 3D gimmicks. Very annoying. I anticipate that 3D will die again, leaving a batch of movies with bizarre cinematography in its wake.

Ken Nadvornick · Jun 11, 2011

BetterSense said:
I hate 3D with the burning passion of a thousand suns, so when my wife and I watched Despicable Me, we watched it in 2D. Even though it was 2D, I kept having strange gut feelings about the direction until I realized that those strange moments were obviously intended as 3D gimmicks. Very annoying. I anticipate that 3D will die again, leaving a batch of movies with bizarre cinematography in its wake.

What an amazingly prescient observation that was seven months ago...

"There has been an alarming dip in 3D grosses at the domestic box office this summer. The trouble started with Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides." For the first time, a majority of the audience opted to see a studio 3D picture in 2D. It happened again a week later with DreamWorks Animation's 'Kung Fu Panda 2.'"

[...]

"It's [3D technology] not nearly as big a win as it should be, and it's certainly not the win it was headed toward being, and that's really heartbreaking to me because we have managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory as only Hollywood can do."

Jeffrey Katzenberg weighs in on 3D's "heartbreaking" decline
By Pamela McClintock – Fri Jun 10, 8:29 pm ET

Ken

benjiboy · Jun 11, 2011

Worker 11811 said:
Well, then, you're going to keel over in your chair when you read this!

http://gizmodo.com/5614433/this-is-the-first-imax-3d-porn-movie-yes-imax-3d-porn

Yes, folks! It's a porno movie in 3-D! IMAX 3-D, no less!
Bouncing boobs and male members, 20 feet tall and floating just inches in front of your face!

It's a must see!

If I'm not mistaken, IMAX 3D is a film process. :munch::munch::munch:

Not for me, I get enough sex and violence at home

michaelbsc · Jun 11, 2011

benjiboy said:
Not for me, I get enough sex and violence at home

You get sex at home?

MaximusM3 · Jun 11, 2011

benjiboy said:
Not for me, I get enough sex and violence at home

You lucky bastard!

Photo Engineer · Jun 11, 2011

I reported recently that one of the production machines at EK has shut down. This machine was used primarily in the production of Motion Picture products. So, whatever is said, the effect lingers in production.

PE

Ken Nadvornick · Jun 11, 2011

Photo Engineer said:
I reported recently that one of the production machines at EK has shut down. This machine was used primarily in the production of Motion Picture products. So, whatever is said, the effect lingers in production.

No disagreement with that.

I was just commenting on BetterSense's prodigious powers of prognostication. And I loved his phrase, "I hate 3D with the burning passion of a thousand suns," remembering it when I read the article last night on the recent market demise of 3D motion pictures. Several others had also expressed a similar sentiment - albeit not quite so poetically.

That's all...

Ken

Photo Engineer · Jun 11, 2011

And my point was that even with the rapid decline in 3D, the traditional MP market has not rebounded significantly. The economy has a lot to do with it though.

PE

Ken Nadvornick · Jun 11, 2011

Again, no disagreements. I was just amazed by the 'Bambino' moment of accurately calling that particular shot seven months in advance...

Ken

Photo Engineer · Jun 11, 2011

Ken;

No argument. Kodak is being wounded by a thousand cuts. This is just one more, but quite serious blow. Even if 3D vanished today, the inroads of digital MP conversion have taken place. The 3D fad came and went in the 50s with a whole slew of methods and pictures. And the gimmicks were the same then to wow the audience. And, it is due to fade again and come back again, but with 3D TV here, there may be a change that is hidden below the surface. I see quite a few people buying those, and there are more and more 3D DVDs out there.

PE

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