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Many in Hollywood have been looking forward to the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 to see if it will start to turn the 3-D box office around.
As I reported a few weeks ago, films like Kung Fu Panda 2, Pirate of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Thor have turned in disappointing 3-D box office numbers.
Bay might not be beloved for his story telling but the director is an undisputed maestro when it comes to creating compelling visual images which should help drive the 3-D box office.
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He says that overall, 3-D movies have been generating about 64% of box office from 3-D screens.
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By February, 45.5 million Avatar tickets had been sold for 3-D and Imax 3-D showings of the movie according to Box Office Mojo.
The other, a hapless piece of pseudo-mythology called "Clash of the Titans, " was shot in two dimensions, then hastily bumped up by computer finaglings of such crudity as to establish the principle, or so we thought, that 3-D conversions were to be avoided at all box-office costs.
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Theater owners should thank 3-D evangelists James Cameron and Jeffrey Katzenberg for another record-breaking year at the box office.
If you put a 2-pound box of Cheez-Its in front of me, I'd probably eat them all.
Covering his bets, he'd even like to sell chipsets to cable-box makers themselves.
Hedging his bets, he'd like to sell chipsets to the cable-box makers themselves.
He believes RealD investors are expecting Transformers 3 to generate anywhere from 60% to 70% of its box office from 3-D.
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It that film can earn more than 50% of its box office from 3-D tickets there might be hope for the technology yet.
Movies shown in 3-D accounted for 11% of the box office in 2009 up from 2% in 2008, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Nintendo also is piggybacking off the success 3-D has had in movie theaters, with three-dimensional titles such as "Avatar" setting box-office records.
In the summer, much was made about the declining percentage of box office revenue coming from 3-D screens.
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Katzenberg particularly bristled at articles like this one that show a decreasing amount of box office money coming from 3-D screens.
"If Google develops an operating system, it won't limit itself to the handset--it will look to get on the set-top box and beyond, " says D.
She made me a little--out of a shoe box she'd make a little room, almost like a stage set with little windows and illustrate little books for my dolls, and was generous beyond belief to me.
Box Office Mojo is reporting that 3-D earnings for the film were also down.
It's not the same feeling that you'd get from a traditional separate subwoofer: whereas floor-based box units normally found in other systems tend to rumble from the ground up, the Zeppelin Air's bass feels somewhat more directional, more a part of the overall mix.
Western Power Distribution (WPD) is testing the Static VAr Compensator for Distribution Networks (D-SVC), which is described as "a very clever box".
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Demand creation is shifting from the search box to curated feeds and giving rise to discovery Commerce or d-commerce.
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For studios, overseas box office is becoming increasingly important, especially for 3-D movies.
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Box Office Mojo adjusts box office earning to account for inflation (though not 3-D price hikes).
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