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Within the last twelve months or so there has been a real boom in 3-D cinema with the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Fly Me to The Moon and Coraline all making it to the big screen.
It seems that the movie industry simply isn’t content with the traditional ways in which we watch and make movies anymore and are trying to push the cinema experience that one step further.
But the big question is this is 3-D cinema a passing fad or is it here to stay?
3-D is nothing new in terms of filmmaking it’s a process that was patented way back at the end of the nineteenth century. This technology made it into cinemas in the early 1920’s in the form of red and blue anaglyph; you know those funky cardboard glasses you had as a kid.
The technology that’s behind the IMAX theatres has been around since the fifties but we have really only seem a boom in this new way of watching movies in the last decade.
But with the movies that are lined up to get the old 3-D treatment it really looks like it is here to stay, and filmmaking may have changed forever.
The big movie that will hit cinema screens later this year is Avatar, directed by James Cameron the movie stars Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver, and has been shot entirely in 3-D
And this really does follow in the footsteps of Fly me To The Moon, which was released last year, and was the first animation picture to be make specifically for a 3-D release. And if you look at previously released movies such as Toy Story also getting the three dimensional treatment it is definitely here to stay.
And it would seem that it is the big named filmmakers that are really grabbing hold of this technology and running with it as Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg join Cameron on the band wagon with their new movie Tintin, Pixar are also getting in on the action with Toy Story 3.
But it’s not the future where this technology is going to dominate the last twelve months has seen a major boom in 3-D film with Journey to the Centre of the earth, Scar 3-D and Monster vs. Aliens all finding major success at the box office.
There are rumours that The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars movies are all going to the 3-D treatment and with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland also in the pipeline this looks like something that is just going to keep on growing.
And with influential filmmakers like Cameron, Spielberg, Jackson and Burton all on board it won’t be long until everyone else follows suit.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw