Disney Digital 3-D
Disney Digital 3-D is a brand used by the Walt Disney Company to describe three-dimensional films made and released by the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and shown exclusively using digital projection.
Disney Digital 3-D is not a presentation nor a production format or technology. Films advertised as Disney Digital 3-D come from a number of sources, film, digital camera as well as animation software, and can be presented using any digital 3D technology, including RealD, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D and MasterImage 3D. There is no specific handling involved.
Title history
The first movie using this brand for advertising was Chicken Little, released in late 2005.[1] For the release, Disney collaborated with Real D to install RealD's 3D digital projection system featuring Christie CP2000 2K DLP projectors along with silver screens for 84 screens in US theaters.[2]
The computer-animated Chicken Little was followed by a re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas on October 20, 2006. Nightmare, a 1993 stop motion movie, was originally shot in 2D on 35-mm-film, the 3D version was generated by Industrial Light and Magic from this source using computer technology. And with the "smaller breast" 3D version of Knick Knack making this the first and only Disney movie that isn't made by Pixar to have a Pixar short film.
In 2007, Disney re-released Working for Peanuts, a 1953 animated film shot in 3D. It preceded the theatrical release of the 3D version of Meet the Robinsons.
The first live-action material recorded in digital 3D by Disney was Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, released in 2008. In 2009, G-Force followed, marking the first scripted live-action 3D movie under the Disney Digital 3-D brand (as well as Jerry Bruckheimer's first 3D film).
On May 29, 2009, Disney·Pixar released Up, the first Pixar film to be presented in 3D. It was then followed by a 3D double feature re-release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on October 2, 2009, although neither of these films' animation was altered. As a result, subsequent Pixar films, such as Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, were released in Disney Digital 3D.
Two of Disney's traditionally-animated films were reissued with 3D conversions in 2011, The Lion King - released on August 26 internationally and on September 16 in North America -[3] and Beauty and the Beast - limited to 13-day run in September at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles for North America, as well as short runs in New Zealand, Japan, Australia, India and Spain in 2010.[4][5] These re-releases were being supervised by Don Hahn, who produced both films. Beauty and the Beast in 3D received a wider release in 2012.
The most recent title in the brand is John Carter, released in March 2012.
List of Disney Digital 3-D films
Original releases
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Chicken Little | November 4, 2005 |
| Meet the Robinsons | March 30, 2007 |
| Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert | February 1, 2008 |
| Bolt | November 21, 2008 |
| Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience | February 27, 2009 |
| Up | May 24, 2009 |
| G-Force | July 24, 2009 |
| A Christmas Carol | November 6, 2009 |
| Alice in Wonderland | March 5, 2010 |
| Toy Story 3 | June 18, 2010 |
| Tangled | November 24, 2010 |
| Tron: Legacy | December 17, 2010 |
| Mars Needs Moms | March 11, 2011 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | May 20, 2011 |
| Cars 2 | June 24, 2011 |
| John Carter | March 9, 2012 |
| Brave | June 22, 2012 |
| Frankenweenie | October 5, 2012 |
| Wreck-It Ralph | November 2, 2012 |
| Oz: The Great and Powerful | March 8, 2013 |
| Monsters University | June 21, 2013 |
Re-issue Titles
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | October 27, 2006 October 19, 2007 October 24, 2008 October 23, 2009 |
| Toy Story | October 2, 2009 |
| Toy Story 2 | October 2, 2009 |
| The Lion King | September 16, 2011 |
| Beauty and the Beast | January 13, 2012 |
| Finding Nemo | September 14, 2012 |
| Monsters, Inc. | January 18, 2013 |
| The Little Mermaid | September 13, 2013 |
| Aladdin | December 13, 2013 (non-US only) |
| A Bug's Life | February 2014 |
| Ratatouile | September 2014 |
| The Incredibles | February 2015 |
| WALL-E | September 2015 |
| Hercules: 20th Anniversary Edition | September 2016 (non-US only) |
| Dinosaur | January 1, 2017 (non-US only) |
| The Emperor's New Groove | March 2017 (non-US only) |
| Atlantis: The Lost Empire | October 2017 (non-US only) |
See also
- List of 3-D films
- 3-D film
- Digital cinema
- Digital 3D
- RealD, Dolby 3D, Panavision 3D and XpanD 3D (presentation technologies)
References
- ^ "The Walt Disney Studios and Dolby Bring Disney Digital 3-D(TM) to Selected Theaters Nationwide With CHICKEN LITTLE on Dolby Digital Cinema". PR Newswire. June 27, 2011. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
- ^ Carolyn Giardina (2007-03-07). "New dimension at Real D". HollywoodReporter.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
- ^ McClintock, Pamela (26 May 2011). "Disney's 'The Lion King' to Return to Theaters in Digital 3D". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ Stewart, Andrew (August 11, 2011). "'Beauty 3D' to single screen". Variety.com. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
- ^ "(3D) Beauty and the Beast at Hoyts Cinemas". Hoyts.com.au. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
External links
- Disney's Digital Cinema Portal
- "Disney Hatches Chicken Little in Digital 3D" (AWN, October 31, 2005)
