P3D More (non)-3D films

[Lawrence W Kaufman <kaufman3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

More 3D films to go direct to
video (flat)...

Low-budget mogul, producer
Charles Band has been regrouping
after a video distribution
agreement through Paramount
Home Video ended. Band has
formed his own video distribution
company called Amazing Fantasy
Entertainment.

Band directed ìParasiteî (1982)
and ìMetalstorm: The Destruction
of Jared-Synî (1983), but his plans
for other 3D films was put on hold
with the end of the 1980ís 3D
boom. Tests he planned to run
while filming ìThe Creepsî (1997)
were so successful that he shot the
entire film in 3D. It was released
straight to video (with one
Halloween 3D play date) flat.

Band has picked two more
projects for 3D. ìHorror
Vision.comî will be a hard R-rated
film, which he plans to direct and
ìSecrets of the Micromenî.
ìSecretsî is planned as a PG rated
film for kids, Randy Cook will
direct and it will feature 3D CGI
effects.

Look for these films not at your
local 3D cinema, but on the video
shelves (even though these films
might actually receive a 3D
playdate of two). Band feels as
most of us do, 3D video in the
current NTSC system is just bad.
He does believe in the future, high
definition television will enable 3D
TV to eventually come to fruition.
He wants to have a library of 3D
titles all shot on 35mm film ready.

Thanks for the time,
Lawrence Kaufman, mailto:kaufman3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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