Blu-Ray

11.02.10
Toy Story 3, the biggest animated movie of all time – with over $1 billion at the box office – is now on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. Families won’t want to miss adding the Blu-ray Combo Pack, 2 Disc Blu-ray or the DVD edition of Toy Story 3 to their home movie collections. Fans of all ages who have come to love and cherish these unique characters, can explore them in a whole new way as the Disney/Pixar team provides a more in-depth look into Pixar Animation Studios and the creation of its characters with hours of exclusive bonus features on the Blu-ray Disc version of the film including filmmaker commentary with Director Lee Unkrich and Producer Darla K. Anderson, amusing views of life at Pixar, analysis of favorite scenes, and the Toy Story Trivia Dash game. The filmmakers talk about the movie and the Disney videogames in this exclusive video interview.
10.28.10
Oscar-winning director James Cameron is set to return to Pandora. The director has confirmed that he will begin filming Avatar 2 and 3 in late 2011. Twentieth Century Fox is targeting December 2014 and December 2015 to release the 3D movies. Cameron talks about working on the original Ubisoft Avatar 3D videogame in this exclusive video interview.
10.08.10
The Oscar-winning creative team behind AVATAR, James Cameron and Jon Landau, will be talking about the future of 3D filmmaking and the future of 3D in the home at the third annual Blu-Con event at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on November 2. Leading technology providers from the home entertainment industry will also showcase the latest home 3D applications at the third annual technology, business and creative event for the worldwide Blu-ray Disc community.
10.07.10

The 3D TV market will spend the next couple of years establishing itself and accumulating a base of content and devices -- both TVs and Blu-ray players. According to ABI Research, market growth will start to accelerate in 2012 with shipments of 3D TV sets approaching 50 million in 2015.

10.05.10

Director James Cameron is unlocking the secrets of Pandora and taking fans on a guided tour of his vision with the highly anticipated release of AVATAR Extended Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray and DVD releasing November 16th in North America and rolling out internationally from November 15th. These exclusive Extended Collector’s Editions come with iconic, collectible packaging to get fans to experience Pandora like never before. With three versions of the film, AVATAR fans will get an all-new extended cut of the film and hours of never-before seen material including over 45 minutes of amazing deleted scenes.

10.02.10

NEW YORK CITY -- After topping $621 million in the global box office, Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 has come home to Blu-ray Disc and DVD with a slew of special features from Paramount Home Entertainment. One of the men behind the iron suit, Marvel Comics scribe Matt Fraction (The Invincible Iron Man), worked with Favreau on the film and helped game publisher Sega craft an original interactive story. He talks about the new Blu-ray Disc and the game that’s available for multiple platforms in this exclusive interview.

09.29.10

The International 3D Society announced today that Panasonic Corporation will be the 2010 recipient of its prestigious Charles Wheatstone Award. The Wheatstone Award named for inventor Charles Wheatstone, who invented the Stereoscope in 1838 in England, was also a noted advocate and educator about stereoscopic vision and imaging. In recognition of their great contribution to increasing public knowledge about stereoscopy as a technical art and craft, the International 3D Society acknowledges Panasonic as an educational force for 3D in the 21st century. The Wheatstone Award will be formally presented to Panasonic at the 3D Technology Awards on October 19 at Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

09.28.10

Inventive visuals, endearing performances and a genre-smashing style define Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the critically acclaimed, action-comedy coming to Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD November 9th from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. In the movie, cutting-edge filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) directs Michael Cera (Juno, Superbad) and an incredible ensemble cast in the story of a charming, unemployed bass player who discovers that in order to date the girl of his dreams, he must first battle her seven super-powered, evil exes. Michael Cera talks about his own gaming habits in this exclusive video interview.

09.25.10

LOS ANGELES – At the third annual 3D entertainment summit in Los Angeles, speakers like M. Night Shyamalan and Jefrey Katzenberg headlined the two-day event. The key takeaway from the sold out summit, which had over 800 attendees, was that 3D, though still an embryonic industry, is poised for explosive growth and will become the major force in entertainment moving forward. Chris Cookson, president of technology at Sony Pictures Entertainment, talks about the future of 3D in this keynote video.

09.25.10

Two of the big keynote speakers from the inaugural 3D Gaming Summit – Jon Landau – and the third annual 3D Entertainment Summit – Jeffrey Katzenberg – will join up for the 3D Media Markets summit on October 27 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. The conference is sponsored by Panasonic and its Ideas For Life. The program will feature leading executives from the fields of theatrical exhibition, TV distribution, videogaming, 3D technology, advertising/marketing and media finance. Katzenberg's speech from 3D Entertainment Summit is featured in this video.

09.20.10

LOS ANGELES -- With the Fox hit TV show “Glee” back on the air, one of the show’s stars, Josh Sussman, took on King Kong at the Universal Studios Tour in Los Angeles. Sussman, who also has a hit TV show on MTV, did an exclusive video interview with his “Warren the Ape” co-star on the red carpet. Sussman is going virtual this fall thanks to Konami Digital Entertainment’s and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products’ Karaoke Revolution Glee for Wii.

09.20.10

Writer/director/producer Paul W.S. Anderson has parlayed his love of videogames into a successful film career. His low-budget Resident Evil video game adaptation launched a film franchise that has no end in sight. Resident Evil: Afterlife has generated over $86 million worldwide at the box office so far. The director, who also brought the AVP: Alien vs. Predator and Mortal Kombat game franchises to the big screen, has had success infusing films like Event Horizon and Death Race with action and horror elements from games.

09.18.10

Sony Computer Entertainment America has launched PlayStation Move in North America, almost four years after Nintendo introduced the world to motion-controlled gaming and a few weeks before Microsoft jumps on the bandwagon with Kinect for Xbox 360. PlayStation Move fuses realistic, high-definition gaming with accurate and easy-to-use controls. The Move is also being blended with stereoscopic 3D on key games like Killzone 3 and The Fight: Lights Out.

09.18.10

LOS ANGELES – During the third annual 3D Entertainment Summit, M. Night Shyamalan, the writer/producer of Universal Pictures Devil and a self-described non-techie, said he was wary that audiences' expectations of 3D films will force filmmakers to compromise "story-telling integrity" for eye-catching special effects.