Tag "CinemaCon"

Fox Offers More Details on CG ‘Peanuts’ Feature

April 21, 2013 by Ramin Zahed 3 Comments divider image

Good grief, Charlie Brown! One of the hot items announced at last week’s CinemaCon event in Las Vegas was that Fox’s upcoming Peanuts feature will definitely be CG-animated and in stereoscopic 3-D. The studio also confirmed that the film will be released in November 2015 to mark the 65th anniversary [...]

‘Dragon 2,’ ‘Monsters Univ.’ Shine at CinemaCon

April 18, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Animated features took center stage at the CinemaCon confab in Las Vegas today. The industry event, which targets exhibitors, producers, distributors, equipment and concession industry professionals, was held this week (April 15-18) at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. On Wednesday, Disney offered a sneak preview of Pixar’s highly anticipated summer [...]

RealD Showcases New Screen Tech at CinemaCon

April 15, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

RealD is showing off the next wave in theatrical screen technology at the CinemaCon event in Vegas this week, revealing what gave extra oomph to the world premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit at Wellington, NZ’s Embassy Theatre and a screening of The Croods at DreamWorks Animation’s Campanile Theater earlier [...]

48-Frames Version of ‘Hobbit’ to Screen in 450 Theaters

November 7, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Peter Jackson’s upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey generated a lot of interest earlier this year when the director screened part of the film in its 48 frames-per-second format. This controversial high-frame rate technology left some of the 3-D audiences unimpressed at the CinemaCon exhibitors’ convention in Las [...]

‘Wreck-It Ralph’ to Offer Vidgame Star Cameos

April 25, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

More info about Disney’s upcoming holiday movie Wreck-It Ralph was released the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas this week. Directed by Rich Moore (Sit Down, Shut Up, Drawn Together, Futurama), this much-anticipated CG-animated movie centers on a 1980s arcade game character (voiced by John C. Reilly) who is tired of [...]

Upcoming Pixar Projects Unveiled at CinemaCon

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Attendees at yesterday’s CinemaCon event in Las Vegas learned all about Pixar’s upcoming animated slate and found out details about the sequel to Disney’s Muppets movie. Here is the Pixar slate: The Good Dinosaur. Directed by Bob Peterson with co-director Peter Sohn and producer John Walker. This comedy takes a look [...]

Katzenberg Is CinemaCon’s Pioneer of the Year

April 17, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg will receive the 2012 Pioneer of the Year Award at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas (April 23-26). The Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation announced that Jack Black, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas (all of which have voiced in the studio’s animated features) will [...]