Comments about Big 3D opening weekend

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moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on July 19, 2008 at 5:08 pm

at the mansfield, theater 1 was showing this movie.

AryeDirect
AryeDirect on July 19, 2008 at 2:32 pm

Been enthralled with NaturalVision 3-D since, as an eight year old kid, saw ‘House of Wax’ at the first screening on its opening day at the palatial Chicago Theater.

Was plucky enough to see all ‘Wax’, ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’, and ‘It Came from Outer Space’ all in first run.

Although ‘Kiss Me Kate’ and ‘Dial M for Murder’ hit Chicago flat. Many years later saw both with pristine prints in double system 35 projection, and was wowed. ‘Kiss Me Kate’, due to its Cole Porter wickedness, was probably the most clever of all the films shot in the process.

It has taken more than fifty years, but 3-D is now entering its second golden age.

Long live film in ALL its dimensions.

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KingBiscuits
KingBiscuits on July 18, 2008 at 7:29 pm

Actually, only 800 theatres ran Journey To The Center Of The Earth in 3-D.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on July 18, 2008 at 8:29 am

This article is a sales pitch. So people with a propensity to see JOURNEY chose 3D over 2D?

The film opened at 2811 locations. According to this article there are 1400 3D systems installed. If all the system screens were showing JOURNEY, and they probably were, then there was a 7% increment which is easily explained by 3D installations being bought for higher grossing locations anyway.

The real story here is – “In spite of the 3D gimmick audiences choose "Hancock” and “Hellboy II” over “Journey to the Center of the Earth”.