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Posted by Burleigh Ibbott (Member # 3917) on 10-29-2011, 09:38 AM:

I don't have digital so we are showing Tintin in scope which i must say is very good. Is 3D in flat and are all 3D movies in flat?
By the way, I went to Dolby European headquarters in Whooton Basset, UK and got demonstrated 11.1 sound set up. A very good presentation but not sure it will work in a lot of theatres. Maybe just the big screen ones.

Burleigh

Posted by Jonathan Goeldner (Member # 4854) on 10-29-2011, 11:37 AM:

they are releasing Tintin in both flat and scope? I thought the IMAX-digital 3D trailer I saw yesterday morning was scope.

who's going to release a film in 11.1 sound? we can barely get more studios to release in 7.1 - maybe Sony will resurrect five across 7.1 sound [Wink]

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 10-29-2011, 12:24 PM:

No, his question if 3D movies are always in flat, which is "no" in presentation terms.

There are 3D movies presented in the 2.39:1 "scope" ratio.

Posted by Jonathan Goeldner (Member # 4854) on 10-29-2011, 01:01 PM:

^ ah gotcha.

Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 10-29-2011, 01:18 PM:

Both Puss in Boots and The Three Musketeers are 3D Scope.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-29-2011, 04:29 PM:

quote: Burleigh Ibbott
we are showing Tintin in scope

How can that be when it's not coming out for almost 2 months?

Or are you talking about the trailer?

Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-29-2011, 06:34 PM:

Tintin release dates

Europe gets it before North America.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-29-2011, 08:53 PM:

Amazing! They must not care about movie theft on this one, eh? [Big Grin]

Is this pretty common? I remember a few shows coming out a day or a week ahead of the U.S. in some situations but I thought usually it was pretty much worldwide on the same day.....?

Posted by Jonathan Goeldner (Member # 4854) on 10-29-2011, 09:33 PM:

quote: Frank Cox

Tintin release dates

Europe gets it before North America.

it's only Brazil that gets screwed [Wink]

Posted by Kris Verhanneman (Member # 5562) on 10-30-2011, 02:42 AM:

Our release day in France/Belgium is on Wednesday. That is why we get sometimes a release a few day before or after you.

Giving the origin of Tintin the world avant première was in Brussels last week (in the afternoon in Brussels and in Paris the evening).

Posted by Elise Brandt (Member # 5552) on 10-30-2011, 03:04 PM:

We're opening Tintin next Friday in Finland.

Apparently "they" are not counting on the American audiences to love Tintin as much, it's been such a European phenomenon... like Captain America pretty much hitting rocks over here when in the US the story is all different.

As for me, I learned to read from Tintin stories. The first word I ever read was said/thought by Milou (Tintin's white dog) so I still attach the ultimate heureka-feeling to this character, the one where you can, for the first time ever, make sense of the gibberish symbols in front of you that are said to tell so much.

I really, really hope the movie does well. From all I have heard it looks awesome in 3D [Big Grin]

Posted by Oz Izhak (Member # 6595) on 10-30-2011, 06:04 PM:

But why TINTIN in FLAT?!

I thing all the kids movies in flat(SMURFS,RIO....)

Posted by Kris Verhanneman (Member # 5562) on 10-31-2011, 05:37 AM:

No Tintin is not in flat.
It is a scope release (in France)

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-31-2011, 06:44 PM:

quote: Oz Izhak
I thing all the kids movies in flat

A lot of kids movies are in scope. It has less to do with the age group it's aimed at than the artistic intentions of the director, and the budget.

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 10-31-2011, 07:37 PM:

quote: Oz Izhak
(SMURFS,RIO....)

Smurfs-flat, RIO-'Scope ... and Rango,KungFu Panda, Nanny McPfee, and a host of others in 'Scope.

Just looks better on the big screen in this format....

Posted by Edward Havens (Member # 4715) on 10-31-2011, 11:00 PM:

Tintin is practically unknown in the United States but a four-generation sensation in Europe. The rave reviews from around the world will hopefully help the film in the States, or something like that.

Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 11-01-2011, 09:22 AM:

I came late to Tintin (late '60s) but my kids grew up with them and still treasure the originals that I got them in the '70s. Now their kids read the three-title hardback reprints I've been giving them.

It may be that not many Americans know and appreciate Tintin now, but that's about to change. The Great Carnac predicts a huge spike in Tintin interest this winter and record sales of the books. I for one, can't wait.