A Step Toward the Future of Cinema

There’s a big gamble taking place right now at the highest levels of American filmmaking and it concerns almost every major studio and many of the biggest producers and directors in the industry. Cameron, Zemeckis, Disney, Paramount, and Fox believe they have the future of cinema within their grasp and each has bet hundreds of millions of dollars that audiences will agree. That dream is 3-D cinema, and by all accounts this is not your parents’ Jaws 3 in 3-D. It’s a form of digital 3-D that solves all the past issues, such as headaches due to the crappy cardboard glasses or poorly synched reels. Where available, the films being shown in 3-D have been outselling the non-3-D version of the same pic three to one.