DAILY STAR - UK
3-D FILMS ARE STAND-OUT SUCCESS
ABOVE: Steven Spielberg's Monsters vs Aliens will lead the way for 3-D movies
DON'T duck...Hollywood is going 3-D, with at least ten new films due to leap out of cinema screens this year.
Fans got a taster when studios spent $3million showcasing the format at this month's Superbowl.
And movie maker Pixar has already announced all its future films will use the new hi-tech process.
The first 3-D blockbuster should be Steven Spielberg's Monsters vs. Aliens, starring Brit Hugh Laurie, Kiefer
Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon. It opens here on April 3.
But some lucky movie fans have already had a 3-D treat with Bolt, a tale about a dog that thinks it's a superhero.
The movie was released in the new format at 100 UK screens.
Titanic director James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar – starring Sigourney Weaver – and the Disney/Pixar action
comedy Up are also due later in 2009.
There will also be special 3-D sequences in two big summer sequels – Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen – showing at IMAX cinemas.
The original 3-D exploded on to the Hollywood scene in 1953 in films such as It Came From Outer Space but fizzled
out when people complained the blue and red glasses they had to wear gave them headaches.
The new 3-D method also uses specs but Spielberg's DreamWorks partner Jeffrey Katzenberg promised: "You will feel like you will be able to reach out and touch it."
And over the next two years even such classics as Citizen Kane will get 3-D updates.
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