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UNITED STATES (Released July 21, 2006)

ALABAMA
Birmingham: Carmike Summit 16 (3D)
Homewood: Carmike Wynnsong 12 (2D)
Hoover: Rave Patton Creek 15 (3D)
Huntsville: Rave Valley Bend 18 (3D & 2D)
Montgomery: Rave Festival Plaza 16 (3D)
Orange Beach: Rave Wharf 15 (3D & 2D)

ARIZONA
Mesa: Cinemark Mesa 16 (3D)
Peoria: Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 (3D)
Tempe: Harkins Arizona Mills 24 (3D)

ARKANSAS
Little Rock: Rave Colonel Glenn 18 (3D)

CALIFORNIA
Bonsall: UltraStar Galaxy 6 (2D)
Carlsbad: UltraStar La Costa 6 (2D)
Chula Vista: UltraStar Chula Vista 10 (3D & 2D)
Corona: Regal Edwards Corona Crossings Stadium 18 (3D)
Daly City: Century 20 Daly City (3D)
Dublin: Regal Hacienda Crossings Stadium 20 (3D)
El Centro: UltraStar Imperial Valley 14 (3D)
Fontana: UltraStar Fontana 8 (3D & 2D)
Glendale: Mann Glendale Exchange 10 (3D)
Irvine: Regal Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21 (3D)
Long Beach: Regal Edwards Long Beach Towne Center Stadium 26 (3D)
Los Angeles (Hollywood): Mann Chinese 6 (3D)
Los Angeles (Universal City): AMC Loews Universal City 18 (3D)
Los Angeles (Van Nuys): Mann Plant 16 (3D)
Los Angeles (Westchester): National Amusements The Bridge: Cinema de Lux (3D)
Los Angeles (Westwood Village): Mann Village (3D)
Moreno Valley: Harkins Moreno Valley 16 (3D)
Porterville: Galaxy Porterville 9 (2D)
Poway: UltraStar Poway Creekside Plaza 10 (3D & 2D)
Rancho Cucamonga: UltraStar Terra Vista 6 (2D)
Riverbank: Galaxy Riverbank 12 (2D)
San Diego (Del Mar): UltraStar Del Mar Highlands 8 (2D)
San Diego (Gaslamp Quarter): Regal UA Horton Plaza 14 (3D)
San Diego (Mission Valley): UltraStar Mission Valley Hazard Center (3D)
San Francisco: AMC Loews Metreon 15 (3D)
San Jose: Century 20 Oakridge (3D)
Santa Barbara: Metropolitan Arlington (3D)
Santa Monica: Mann Criterion 6 (3D)
South Gate: Regal Edwards South Gate Stadium 20 (3D)
Thousand Oaks: Mann 9 at Janss Marketplace (3D)
Tulare: Galaxy Tulare 10 (2D)

COLORADO
Colorado Springs: Cinemark 17 at Carefree Circle (3D)
Fort Collins: Carmike 10 (2D)
Lakewood: Regal UA Colorado Mills Stadium 16 (3D)

CONNECTICUT
Manchester: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Buckland Hills (3D)
Milford: National Amusements Connecticut Post 14: Cinema de Lux (3D)
North Haven: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas North Haven (3D

DELAWARE
Wilmington: Regal Brandywine 16 (3D)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington: AMC Loews Georgetown 14 (3D)

FLORIDA
Boca Raton: Muvico Palace 20 (3D)
Bradenton: Carmike Royal Palm 20 (2D)
Davie: Muvico Paradise 24 (3D)
Destin: Rave Destin Commons 14 (3D)
Lake Buena Vista: AMC Loews Pleasure Island 24 (3D)
Melbourne: Premiere Oaks 10 (3D)
Melbourne (Viera): Rave Avenue 16 (3D)
Orlando: Cinemark 20 at Festival Bay (3D)
Orlando: Regal Waterford Lakes Stadium 20 (3D)
Pensacola: Rave Pensacola 18 (3D)
Port St. Lucie: Rave St. Lucie West 14 (3D)
St. Petersburg: Muvico Baywalk 20 (3D)
Sunrise: Regal Sawgrass Stadium 23 (3D)
Tampa: Muvico Starlight 20 (3D)

GEORGIA
Buford: Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium 20 (3D)
Cartersville: Carmike 12 (3D)
Fort Oglethorpe: Carmike Battlefield 10 (2D)

HAWAII
Honolulu: Regal Dole Cannery Stadium 18 (3D)

IDAHO
Boise: Regal Edwards Boise Stadium 21 (3D)

ILLINOIS
Lincolnshire: Regal Lincolnshire Stadium 20 (3D)
Oak Park: Classic Lake (3D)
Peoria: Rave Grand Prairie 18 (3D)
Schaumburg: AMC Loews Streets of Woodfield 20 (3D)
Skokie: Crown Village Crossing 18 (3D)

INDIANA
Evansville: Kerasotes Stadium 16 (3D)
Fort Wayne: Carmike 20 (3D)
Fort Wayne: Rave Jefferson Pointe 18 (3D)
Indianapolis: Kerasotes ShowPlace 16 (3D)
Indianapolis: Regal UA Galaxy Stadium 14 (3D)
Plainfield: Rave Metropolis 18 (3D)
Schererville: Kerasotes ShowPlace 12 (3D)

IOWA
Davenport: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas 53 (3D)
Des Moines: Carmike Southridge 12 (2D)
Johnston: Carmike Wynnsong 16 (2D)

KANSAS
Leawood: AMC Loews Town Center 20 (3D)

KENTUCKY
Louisville: Cinemark Tinseltown USA (3D)
Louisville: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Stonybrook (3D)

LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge: Rave Baton Rouge 16 (2D)
Baton Rouge: Rave Mall of Louisiana 15 (3D & 2D)
Lafayette: Carmike Lafayette 10 (2D)

MARYLAND
Annapolis: Crown Annapolis Mall 11 (3D)
Hanover: Muvico Egyptian 24 (3D)

MASSACHUSETTS
Boston: AMC Loews Boston Common 19 (3D)
Millbury: National Amusements Blackstone Valley 14: Cinema de Lux (3D)
Randolph: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Randolph (3D)
Revere: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Revere (3D)

MICHIGAN
Auburn Hills: AMC Loews Star Great Lakes Crossing 25 (3D)
Birch Run: Cinema Hollywood (2D)
Brighton: MJR Brighton Towne Square Cinema 20 (3D)
Canton: Emagine Canton 18 (3D & 2D)
Flint: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Flint West (3D)
Grandville: Cinemark 20 (3D)
Kalamazoo: Goodrich Kalamazoo 10 (3D)
Kentwood: Loeks Celebration! Cinema Grand Rapids South (3D)
Novi: Emagine Novi 18 (3D & 2D)
Southgate: MJR Southgate Cinema 20 (3D)
Sterling Heights: MJR Marketplace Cinema 20 (3D)
Waterford: MJR Waterford Cinema 16 (3D)
Ypsilanti: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Ann Arbor (3D)

MINNESOTA
Apple Valley: Carmike 15 (2D)
Coon Rapids: Kerasotes ShowPlace 16 (3D)
Mounds View: Carmike Wynnsong 15 (2D)
Oakdale: Carmike Oakdale Stadium 20 (3D)

MISSISSIPPI
Madison: Malco Grandview (2D)

MISSOURI
Lees Summit: Dickinson Eastglen 16 (3D)

NEVADA
Las Vegas: Regal Colonnade Stadium 14 (3D)
North Las Vegas: Galaxy Cannery (2D)

NEW JERSEY
Edgewater: National Amusements Edgewater Multiplex (3D)
Elizabeth: AMC Loews Jersey Gardens 20 (3D)

NEW YORK
Albany: Regal Crossgates Stadium 18 (3D)
Farmingdale: National Amusements Farmingdale Multiplex (3D)
Gates: Cinemark Tinseltown USA (3D)
Holtsville: National Amusements Island 16: Cinema de Lux (3D)
New Rochelle: Regal New Roc City Stadium 18 (3D)
New York (Brooklyn): Access IT Pavilion (3D)
New York (Brooklyn): National Amusements Linden Boulevard Multiplex (3D)
New York (Brooklyn): Regal UA Sheepshead Bay 14 (3D)
New York (Manhattan): AMC Loews 84th Street 6 (3D)
New York (Manhattan): Regal UA Union Square Stadium 14 (3D)
New York (Queens): National Amusements College Point Multiplex (3D)
New York (Queens): National Amusements Jamaica Multiplex (3D)
New York (Staten Island): Regal UA Staten Island Stadium 16 (3D)
Westbury: AMC Loews Raceway 10 (3D)
White Plains: National Amusements City Center 15: Cinema de Lux (3D)

NORTH CAROLINA
Charlotte: Regal Stonecrest at Piper Glen 22 (3D)
Durham: Carmike Wynnsong 15 (2D)
Greensboro: Carmike 18 (2D)
Morrisville: Carmike Park Place 16 (2D)
Wilmington: Carmike 16 (2D)
Wilson: Carmike 10 (3D & 2D)
Winston-Salem: Carmike 10 (2D)
Winston-Salem: Carmike Wynnsong 12 (2D)

OHIO
Columbus: Rave Polaris 18 (3D)
Maumee: National Amusements Maumee 18: Cinema de Lux (3D)
Milford: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Milford 16 (3D)
Springdale: National Amusements Springdale 18: Cinema de Lux (3D)
Valley View: Cinemark at Valley View (3D)
West Carrollton: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Dayton South (3D)
West Chester: Rave West Chester 18 (3D)

OREGON
Corvallis: Carmike 12 (2D)
Springfield: Cinemark 17 (3D)
Tigard: Regal Bridgeport Village Stadium 18 (3D)

PENNSYLVANIA
King of Prussia: Regal UA King of Prussia Stadium 16 (3D)
Moosic: Cinemark Tinseltown 20 (3D)

RHODE ISLAND
Warwick: National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Warwick (3D)

SOUTH CAROLINA
Greenville: Regal Hollywood 20 (3D)

TENNESSEE
Clarksville: Carmike Governor's Square 10 (2D)
East Ridge: Rave East Ridge 18 (3D)
Franklin: Carmike Thoroughbred 20 (3D)
Knoxville: Regal Pinnacle Stadium 18 (3D)
Memphis: Malco Paradiso (3D)
Nashville: Carmike Bellevue 8 (2D)

TEXAS
Austin: Galaxy Highland 10 (2D)
Austin: Regal Gateway Stadium 16 (3D)
El Paso: Carmike 16 (3D)
El Paso: Cinemark Tinseltown USA (3D)
Fort Worth: Rave Ridgmar 13 (3D)
Hickory Creek: Rave Hickory Creek 16 (3D)
Houston: AMC Loews Willowbrook 24 (3D)
Houston: Rave Yorktown 15 (3D)
Houston: Regal Grand Palace Stadium 24 (3D)
Hurst: Rave North East Mall 18 (3D)
Katy: Cinemark 19 (3D)
Plano: Cinemark Legacy 24 (3D)
Plano: Cinemark Tinseltown 20 (3D)
San Antonio: Santikos Silverado 16 (3D)
Tyler: Carmike 14 (3D)
Webster: Cinemark 18 (3D)
The Woodlands: Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (3D)

UTAH
Provo: Carmike Wynnsong 12 (3D)
Provo: Cinemark 16 (3D)
Salt Lake City: Megaplex 12 at The Gateway (2D)
Sandy: Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons (3D)
South Jordan: Megaplex 20 at The District (2D)
West Jordan: Carmike 12 (2D)
West Jordan: Cinemark 24 Jordan Landing (3D)
West Valley City: Carmike Ritz 15 (2D)

VIRGINIA
Alexandria: Regal Potomac Yard Stadium 16 (3D)
Fairfax: National Amusements Fairfax Corner 14: Cinema de Lux (3D)
Sterling: Regal Countryside Stadium 20 (3D)

WASHINGTON
Auburn: Regal Auburn Stadium 17 (3D)
Lacey: Regal Martin Village Stadium 16 (3D)
Monroe: Galaxy Monroe 12 (2D)
Vancouver: Cinetopia (2D)
Vancouver: Regal Cascade Stadium 16 (3D)

WEST VIRGINIA
Morgantown: Carmike Morgantown Mall 12 (2D)

WISCONSIN
Eau Claire: Carmike Oakwood Mall 12 (2D)

CANADA (Released July 21, 2006)

ONTARIO
Mississauga: Cineplex Galaxy Famous Players SilverCity Mississauga (3D)
Scarborough: Cineplex Galaxy Coliseum Scarborough (3D)
Vaughan: Cineplex Galaxy Famous Players Colossus Woodbridge (3D)

QUEBEC
Montreal: Cineplex Galaxy Famous Players Paramount (3D)

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Yeah, screw those pesky layman customers!

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Posted by Christopher Duvall (Member # 284) on 07-20-2006, 03:30 PM:
 
The best 3D I saw was at ShoWest last year presented by Lucas and some others. They were using some sort of shuttered LCD glasses. It was simply stunning. By far the best presentation I have ever seen. They were using a single lens digital projector as well with am infrared transmitter to sync the glasses to the alternating frames on the screen.


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-20-2006, 07:07 PM:
 
Sounds a lot like the original, and more expensive, IMAX 3D process. That used LCD shuttered glasses synched with infrared control lasers in the auditorium. It's rare to find IMAX theaters which have the more expensive LCD glasses and PSE near field speakers built into them.

Just felt the need to point out that fact in case someone tried to float the claim "video/digital" was the first to do that sort of thing.

I'm not sure what to think of the "Real D" process anymore. The only consistent aspect of it is that it is a digital/video projection based process. There are theaters advertising the "Real D" brand mark while running a variety of digital projection systems. Some theaters are running the Dolby Digital Cinema setup. A few others are running Kodak's rig. Some have systems put together on their own. Circuits like Carmike and Rave have a rapidly growing base of Christie/AccessIT systems.

It appears to me the only thing requiring the "Real D" mark is installation of a silver screen and polarizer lens setup. Am I wrong?
 

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Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 07-20-2006, 08:01 PM:
 

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Just felt the need to point out that fact in case someone tried to float the claim "video/digital" was the first to do that sort of thing.

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Aside from the requirements you mentioned, the only other piece of equipment that I can think of which is needed to run Real D is a player that is capable of handling the high frame rate needed to display the image for both eyes. I'm sure others here know better than me, but I think part of the appeal of Real D is the ability to convert a pre-existing DLP setup relatively painlessly.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-20-2006, 08:50 PM:
 
First of all, I don't know why LCD shutter glasses would be considered expensive. This type of 3D existed in home videogames long before IMAX had them. IMAX copied from home videogame technology! Lazy asses.

Secondly, what kind of lame-ass name is "Real D"? This is perhaps one of the stupidest names I have ever heard in my life. It stirs my bowels and makes my ass erupt like a mud-clogged downspout being blown out. I hope whoever thought of this name, whoever approved it, and whoever likes it all get mad cow disease.
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 07-20-2006, 11:32 PM:
 

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It appears to me the only thing requiring the "Real D" mark is installation of a silver screen and polarizer lens setup. Am I wrong?

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Just finished installing a Kodak DCS at the Arlington in Santa Barbara. Kodak and Barco's people were very efficient.Tested it this morning and the 3-D is very impressive, with lots of depth to the image.

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Thanks. I'll pass along the good words to the Kodak Digital Cinema team.
 

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Posted by Phil Ranucci (Member # 3820) on 07-21-2006, 12:37 PM:
 
Yes, on the back of the Real-D unit. In the Kodak/Barco system it's mounted in the projector base below the server.
 

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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 07-21-2006, 04:05 PM:
 
I saw part of Monster House today in a new DLP / Real D installation at Cinemark 17 in Springfield. See my review under Film Handlers' Movie Reviews.

I will say that with the glasses worn upside-down, the 3D effect was awesome.
 

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Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 07-21-2006, 10:02 PM:
 
Here's a "Monster House"/3D article from today's Los Angeles Times.

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Watch Out! 3-D Is Back; Studios Say It's Improved
Hollywood hopes the format can pull people into theaters
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Times Staff Writer

July 21, 2006

Summer blockbusters have never been known for their depth.

But a slate of big-budget movies is trying to change that as Hollywood turns to 50-year-old technology to keep theaters packed.

Columbia Pictures' animated film "Monster House" opens today in 3-D, the latest film to use a technology once dismissed as cinematic gimmickry to heighten the realism — and add just a touch of the thrill ride — to theatrical releases.

Filmmakers say the technology brings a new dimension to the big screen, accentuating the menacing maw of the possessed "Monster House" or lending dramatic realism as the Man of Steel rescues Lois Lane and her family from a sinking yacht in "Superman Returns."

The studios and exhibitors see 3-D as a lure to keep people coming to theaters instead of watching movies at home on their big-screen TVs.

"With rising production costs and especially marketing costs from the studios, we needed a way to help 'eventize' our most important productions," said Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures.

For an industry that recycles its story lines — "Poseidon" and "Miami Vice" are recent examples — it's little surprise that the studios are dusting off old approaches for prying audiences out of their living rooms.

In the 1950s, studios fearing the encroachment of television grabbed for the polarized glasses and embraced 3-D technology. The inaugural 3-D movie, "Bwana Devil " — a jungle adventure that promised "a lion in your lap" — was such a rousing hit, other studios began creating their own 3-D films.

Although early 3-D enjoyed some commercial success — Warner Bros.' horror thriller "House of Wax" starring Vincent Price was among the top 10 grossing films of 1953 — projection and photographic errors, together with filmmakers' impulse to thrust spears into the audience's eyes, caused people to leave the theater with headaches or sick stomachs.

New digital projectors make today's 3-D movies more lifelike and less likely to induce queasiness.

Warner Bros. was the first big studio to experiment with new 3-D technology in a major release, and its 2004 "Polar Express" in Imax 3-D triggered a stereoscopic revival. Robert Zemeckis' animated version of a child's Christmas Eve trip to the North Pole reaped $128 million in 3,650 U.S. theaters in traditional film projection — and $45 million more when shown on 83 Imax screens in 3-D.

It was so popular with audiences, Imax offered a repeat showing in the 2005 holiday season.

The experiment has propelled a flood of 3-D projects, including "The Ant Bully," which opens in Imax 3-D on July 28, and Sony Pictures Animation's forthcoming "Open Season."

"You have to keep pushing the audience experience," said Yair Landau, president of Sony Pictures Digital. Dramatic visual effects are no substitute for telling a story well. "If the story works you can make the experience more visceral in 3-D."

Indeed, "Monster House" — a collaboration between Sony Pictures Imageworks digital production studio and Zemeckis' Imagemovers Production — was conceived as a 3-D project.

"Once I saw the 'Polar Express' offered in 3-D, I saw it could actually take a story somewhere else," said "Monster House" director Gil Kenan.

"It shattered the idea of going to a movie as a passive experience. It becomes something more akin to a thrill ride, an amusement park ride. It makes the audience feel like they're strapped in and moving through the story."

Kenan and other contemporary filmmakers have learned a few lessons from the excesses of early 3-D experiments — to use restraint, rather than "poking a candelabra into your eyes for an hour and a half." Otherwise, the audience suffers eye fatigue.

"Monster House" employs 3-D to amplify the film's spooky atmospherics. In one scene, the main character, a boy named DJ, scales the steep tower of a wrecking crane and the 3-D heightens the sense of vertigo.

Similarly, "Superman Returns" director Bryan Singer chose, largely for technical reasons, to limit Imax 3-D to those moments when the Man of Steel dons the cape. So when Clark Kent takes off his glasses, audience members put theirs on.

In one flashback to Clark Kent's days as a teenager on a farm in Smallville, he bounds higher and higher through the cornstalks, ultimately crashing through the roof of a barn and stopping inches above the hay-strewn floor. The top of his head is in the center of the screen.

"The cornstalks are right there in your head," Singer said. "It puts you right in the scene. Having been there, having made the movie on that actual farm that we built, not since then did I feel I was put there again."

The digital conversion of cinemas is propelling the 3-D renaissance.

The 3-D technology of the 1950s used two synchronized projectors to simultaneously show two films on screen — one for the right eye and one for the left. The audience wore polarized 3-D glasses to filter out the image intended for the other eye. (Think of polarized lenses as slots: If the light from the film aligns with the slots, it enters; if not it's blocked.) The result was an image that appeared to float off the screen.

Today, the polarized glasses are the same. But digital technology has eliminated the need for two projectors.

Digital projectors can run at speeds of as many as 144 frames per second. Companies such as Real D, which have signed deals to bring stereoscopic film to theaters, place a shutter in front of the projector to swiftly flicker back and forth between the images intended for the right and left eye.

Another company, NuVision Technology of Beaverton, Ore., uses lightweight glasses that filter the image.

The results are considerably easier on the eyes.

Regal Entertainment Group operates 13 Imax and 38 Real D screens out of its 6,383 screens. It plans to add more Real D screens in anticipation of the "Monster House" opening.

"I think people seek out new technologies," said Kevin Keller, Regal's film vice president. "We've had very favorable response."

The jury's still out on whether audiences will embrace 3-D, or whether it will go down as another cinematic novelty.

"Time will tell if it really is the killer app for theatrical," said Andy Maltz, director of the Science and Technology Council for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

"With digital distribution and projection systems, you can do things that you've never been able to do before…. What the studios choose to do with that to draw people out of their homes, what creativity goes into that, we'll see."

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Posted by Phil Ranucci (Member # 3820) on 07-21-2006, 10:42 PM:
 
[QUOTE]I will say that with the glasses worn upside-down, the 3D effect was awesome. [Wink]

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Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 07-22-2006, 12:59 AM:
 
Apparently, the "upside down" fix was at quite a few locations until people talked to Real-D and found out about the polarity switch
 

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Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 07-22-2006, 01:28 AM:
 
I was not following this thread because I thought Honolulu was going to be passed over again after all of the local theatres played the last non IMAX 3-D feature :CHICKEN LITTLE" in 2-D. It was only after perusing the movie theatre page in this morning Honolulu Advertiser when I was checking tonight's show time for "SUPERMAN RETURN" did I learn that Regal Cinema was presenting "MONSTER HOUSE" in digital 3-D at their Dole Cannery 18. A good friend who works for Pacific told me not too long ago that his company would not invest in digital in any of their theatres in Hawaii in the near future because of the tremendous expense of the system but said Regal might and indeed they did! Beside digital 3-D films, can this theatre at the Dole Cannery with the equipment show all films released in digital in that format from now on? I have never seen any film projected in digital so this will be a treat for me. I will post my thoughts about Honolulu's presentation after I see the film on Sunday afternoon.

Phil, I used to go to the Arlington Theatre a lot when I was studying photography at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara the early sixties and I recall how beautiful the theatre was. I also remember How huge the auditorium was with the very ornate decoration of a spanish courtyard with the old mission framing the stage. How large was the original screen before you installed the digital equipent or is it the same size as the original screen? How does the picture look from the back of the auditorium?

-Claude
 

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Posted by Phil Ranucci (Member # 3820) on 07-25-2006, 01:37 PM:
 
Claude-
The Arlington has a 23'*48' screen with a 50' proscenium. It used to have an archway over the stage, not sure when it was removed and the present setup installed. Metropolitan Theaters took over ~1975 and put a lot of work into the place. I agree that it's a great old movie palace.3D screen same size as 2D, very nice picture with film running, actually might be a bit too bright now. Only had film on it for 2 days before we went to 3D but we'll be keeping the silver screen for all films from now on. We'll be showing a silent film 7/29 accompanied by our pipe organ.
 

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Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 07-26-2006, 02:56 AM:
 
Phil,

Thanks for your reply regarding the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara. In addition to that theatre, Metropolitan operated three more theatres when I was there in the early sixties. Two of them were a block away on State Street. They were the Granada and the State which was located across the street. The third theatre, The California was on Canon Perdido Street. What ever happened to these theatres? The Granada like the Arlington was a huge theatre and I recall it had a balcony. I always enjoyed the major studio previews at the Arlington and the Granada when the sudios would ask the audience for our comments on a card after the screening.

-Claude
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 07-26-2006, 04:09 PM:
 
I've heard that several dozen of the 3D Real-D installations for "Monster House" are using the Kodak Digital Cinema system, and that Kodak also did the Digital Cinema Distribution Masters for them.
 

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Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 07-27-2006, 04:11 PM:
 
FWIW, here's a recently issued press release:

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For Immediate Release

REAL D Digital 3D presentation of Columbia Pictures’ MONSTER HOUSE 3D earns $2.4 million domestically opening weekend

Opening Weekend Box-office Exceeds Expectations

LOS ANGELES, July 27, 2006 – The REAL D Digital 3D presentation of Columbia Pictures’ MONSTER HOUSE 3D exceeded industry expectations, grossing $2.4 million opening weekend on only 178 screens in 162 theatre locations. The combined earnings for the 2D and 3D presentations of MONSTER HOUSE also surpassed box-office expectations, grossing $22 million opening weekend.

The 3D per-theatre location average for MONSTER HOUSE was more than $15,000 opening weekend, July 21. More than 11% of the gross for MONSTER HOUSE came out of the 178 screens that were playing the film in the REAL D Digital 3D format – this means that less than 5% of theatres showing MONSTER HOUSE delivered more than 11% of the box-office gross.

“REAL D Digital 3D greatly enhances a film's box office performance, and this weekend’s 3D presentation of MONSTER HOUSE exceeded our highest expectations,” said Michael V. Lewis, Chairman, REAL D. “Audiences bought tickets to MONSTER HOUSE 3D early, helping to contribute to a near sell-out of REAL D screenings nationwide.”

MONSTER HOUSE 3D audiences received comfortable, lightweight glasses that enabled them to view the motion picture in the REAL D Digital 3D format. Unlike traditional anaglyph (red and blue) 3D, REAL D Digital 3D leverages digital cinema projection technology to eliminate eye fatigue, ensuring moviegoers enjoy the most comfortable 3D viewing experience possible.

To find a REAL D Cinema, log on to www.REALD.com and check local listings for REAL D Cinema theaters and show times.

About REAL D

REAL D is the worldwide inventor and provider of key stereoscopic technologies used in entertainment, marketing, science and other industries. REAL D’s mission-critical 3-D visualization technologies are used by organizations such as NASA, Pfizer, BMW, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, SEGA, Boeing and more. For more information, or to locate a REAL D Cinema, visit www.REALD.com.

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REAL D is the worldwide inventor and provider of key stereoscopic technologies used in entertainment, marketing, science and other industries. REAL D’s mission-critical 3-D visualization technologies are used by organizations such as NASA, Pfizer, BMW, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, SEGA, Boeing and more.

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