If you are an early adopter to the 3DTV/Blu-ray 3D format, you have to be feeling the dearth of content. The only Blu-ray 3D titles available have been tied to hardware purchases, with the exception of two of Sony’s titles, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Monster House plus the recently released 3D Music Album from AIX Records, Goldberg Variations Acoustica. There is also at least one Blu-ray 3D IMAX title available in Germany, Grand Canyon Adventure: A River at Risk.
Everything else, like Coraline and Ice Age 3 or How to Train Your Dragon requires specific hardware purchases from one brand or another. There have even been recent announcements of forthcoming Blu-ray 3D titles — highly anticipated ones — such as Avatar and Alice and Wonderland, all being tied-in to specific hardware purchases. It’s as if the industry were purposely trying to derail 3D in the home before it could get rolling.
Enter Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The studio today has just announced the forthcoming release of six Blu-ray 3D titles to be made commercially available with no hardware tie-ins. The titles will be released to retailers nationwide on November 16, 2010, will sell at a suggested retail price of $44.95, and include the following, wide-ranging set of releases:
- Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 3D (Day-and-Date with Blu-ray™ and DVD)
- Clash of the Titans (2010) 3D
- The Polar Express 3D
- IMAX® Deep Sea 3D
- IMAX® Under the Sea 3D
- IMAX® Space Station 3D
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 3D is the industry’s first day-and-date 3D release in the theatrical new release window. Furthermore, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 3D and Clash of the Titans 3D will be released as Blu-ray 3D Combo Packs, which will include both the 3D and 2D versions on Blu-ray, a DVD and a Digital Copy of the film.
All the rest of the titles will also include both the 2D and 3D versions of the film and can be played back on 3D and non-3D Blu-ray players.
ABOUT THE FILMS:
About “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” 3D:
Former elite agent Kitty Galore plans to unleash a diabolical device to bring her canine enemies to heel as well as her feline comrades, so cats and dogs must join forces for the first time to prevent a global cat-astrophe. An all-star voice cast (Christina Applegate, Michael Clarke Duncan, Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Hayes, James Marsden, Bette Midler and Nick Nolte) plus on-screen stars Chris O’Donnell and Jack McBrayer make the fur and fun fly high as only full HD Blu-ray 3D can. Also includes a 3D special feature of a Looney Tunes short called “Coyote Falls.” This Blu-ray 3D disc will have both 3D and 2D playback capabilities of the main feature.
About “Clash of the Titans” 3D:
In “Clash of the Titans,” the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is helpless to save his family from Hades (Ralph Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus (Liam Neeson) and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and creates his own destiny. Unleash the Kraken and step into the action as Blu-ray 3D draws you into the adventure in the most immersive way possible! This Blu-ray 3D disc will have both 3D and 2D playback capabilities of the main feature.
About “The Polar Express” 3D: All the enchantment, all the adventure, all the joy of “The Polar Express,” all in astonishing true Blu-ray 3D! This instant holiday classic filmed in performance-capture animation by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks now delivers a whole new cargoload of immersive Blu-ray magic. Reach out and grab your ticket as the exciting next dimension in home entertainment transports you to the North Pole in amazing fashion! This Blu-ray 3D disc will have both 3D and 2D playback capabilities of the main feature.
About “IMAX® Deep Sea 3D”: Dive in! A sea full of wonders awaits. Famed oceanic filmmaker Howard Hall (“Into the Deep”) guides this immersive adventure that lets you swim alongside some of the most exotic creatures of the planet. Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet provide the narration. And an unusual array of finned and scaled stars are ready to steal every scene. Among them: Green Sea Turtles who gather off Kona so that Surgeonfish can strip harmful algae from their shells…an ominous, predatory Humboldt Squid that changes color four times per second like a flashing strobe light…an underdog Mantis Shrimp, whose claws have the speed of a 22-caliber bullet, in battle against a hungry octopus (the shrimp wins!). So many creatures. So many amazing stories. Sea them all. This Blu-ray 3D disc will have both 3D and 2D playback capabilities.
About “IMAX® Under the Sea 3D”: Imagine a world of incredible color and beauty. Of crabs wearing jellyfish for hats. Of fish disguised as frogs, stones and shag carpets. Of a kaleidoscope of underwater life. Now, go explore it! The makers of “Deep Sea” and “Into the Deep” take you into tropical waters alive with adventure: the Great Barrier Reef and other South Pacific realms. Narrated by Jim Carrey and featuring astonishing camerawork, this amazing film brings you face to fin with Nature’s marvels, from the terrible grandeur (and terrible teeth) of a Great White to the comic antics of a lovestruck cuttlefish. This Blu-ray 3D disc will have both 3D and 2D playback capabilities.
About “IMAX® Space Station 3D”: The first cinematic journey to the International Space Station (ISS), where audiences can experience for themselves life in zero gravity aboard the new station. The audience blasts off into space with the astronauts and cosmonauts from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center and Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome to rendezvous with their new home in orbit 220 miles above Earth. Directed by Toni Myers, Space Station is a story of challenges, setbacks and triumphs and ultimately, the shared international victory of men and women whose dreams exceed the limits of life on this Earth. This Blu-ray 3D disc will have both 3D and 2D playback capabilities.
