P3D New 3D movies

[Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>>>>>>>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.

*****  Is there some special reason that he is NOT putting the already 3D
films into 3D video? If he needs the 2D circulation, that's fine, but to
not
get 3D when it is already 3D would be a shame... There aren't enough 3D
videos yet by a long ways...<<<<<<

I suspect it's a matter of economics. Band is smart enough to know that an
anaglyph tape would be as big a disaster as the others that have been put
out. The only REAL way to go would be AF. How many AF viewers are currently
in the hands of potential buyers/renters of a tape? Alas, there is a
classic chicken/egg problem going on. No major commercial video
distributors are going to go to the expense of releasing a major AF video
which virtually no one (in numbers that mean anything to commercial
distributors) would be able to watch. And there will be no major rush to
buy equipment until there is something TO watch.

>>>>>>>>....... but his plans
>for other 3D films was put on hold
>with the end of the 1980's 3D
>boom. 

****  Can it really be considered a boom? ;-)<<<<<<<<<

It probably produced as many movies as the "boom" in the '50s. Comedies,
action films, sci-fi, horror, even a feature-length cartoon. As long as
even 3D buffs feel it necessary to turn up their noses indiscriminately  at
everything that is produced, it will be pretty hard to get producers to
take the medium seriously.


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