Panasonic and Sony are set to follow.ģD sport is being pushed. Remakes of some of the biggest titles are in the pipeline over the next five years, including Titanic and Star Wars.Įven the small screen is getting in on the act: the first 3D TVs from electronics giant Samsung set to go on sale, having already been launched in the US. Up to 30 major 3D films are due for release this year. Its takings are in excess of $2.5bn worldwide. And James Cameron's Avatar is still in the top 10 after 14 weeks on general release. It has topped the charts around the world and taken US$300m outside the US. Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland has spent another week astride the US box office, where it is credited with leading a 10 per cent rise in audiences nationwide. So this time round, have the studios and distributors got their multibillion-dollar gamble right? Certainly, the public has been keen to try the new format. Again it was not a success and the technology was quietly abandoned from mainstream film making for the best part of two decades.
Even Alfred Hitchcock experimented with the format, shooting Dial M for Murder in stereoscopic form, though the film was only ever shown in its "flat" mode.Īlthough 3D proved little more than a short-lived fad, it was to re-emerge horror-movie-like from the swamps of the 1980s with a glut of multi-dimensional follow-ups such as Jaws 3-D, Amityville 3-D and Friday the 13th Part III. There followed gems, usually horror flicks, such as the House of Wax, starring Vincent Price, It Came From Outer Space and the immortal Creature From the Black Lagoon. But the miracle that the makers of Bwana Devil, the first full-length 3D feature film, were really praying for in 1952 was a way of battling the advance of television that had had arrived in the American living-room and devastated cinema audiences in the years immediately after the Second World War.ĭirector Arch Obler's gruesome tale of man-eating lions gorging their way through the native workforce who were building the Ugandan railway spawned a "golden age" in 3D technology, although the critics panned it and the people, who cared little for donning the outlandish glasses necessary to enjoy the special effects, eventually abandoned it. It billed itself as "The Miracle of the Age!!!" and promised viewers a "lion in your lap" and a "lover in your arms". Avatar may have put a lot of bums on seats - $2.5bn worth - but many complain of headaches and around 12% of people aren't actually capable of seeing 3D images properly.
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