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15 November 2007 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg is predicting that new 3-D projects will drive up the box office as moviegoers seek out entertainment that they can not duplicate at home. As Katzenberg put it in an interview with the New York Post following announcement of a deal with IMAX to release his forthcoming films in 3-D IMAX, "I think this becomes something that so differentiates what you get in your home versus what you get in a movie theater, it becomes a real driver to keep people excited about the movie going experience." Box office analysts will be keeping an eye on receipts for 3-D screenings of Beowulf, which opens tomorrow, to see whether audiences will in fact be willing to pay premium prices to see the 3-D version. The film, from director Robert Zemeckis, uses the same 3-D performance-capture animation technology that Zemeckis introduced in The Polar Express. Meanwhile, a daughter-in-law of John Wayne says she is hoping to restore the actor's 1953 Western Hondo, which was filmed in 3-D, and re-release it. The Hollywood Reporter reported today (Thursday) that a digital print of the movie was screened Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Gretchen Wayne, widow of Wayne's son Michael, told the trade publication, "I would love to get this film [restoration] as good as possible and take it out for a theatrical release. ... The digital world is constantly evolving, and as it does we are able to do more and more with this very old 3-D version of Hondo."

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3 May 2007 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

This year's annual Cannes Film Festival "classics" program will salute the work of Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Elaine May, and Laurence Olivier among others, the festival announced Wednesday. Fonda's daughter Jane is expected to be on hand for a screening of one of her father's best-loved films, Sidney Lumet's Twelve Angry Men, which was produced 50 years ago. The 100th anniversary of the birth of John Wayne will be commemorated by screenings of his 1953 film Hondo and 1959's Rio Bravo. A restored print of Mikey and Nicky will be shown as part of a presentation of 10 restored films, while the recently broadcast Brando will be featured among a selection of documentaries, while three restored film versions of Shakespearian plays starring Laurence Olivier, Hamlet, Henry V, and Richard III, will also be presented.

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