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• 3-D: Hollywood’s latest hot trend
• The Monitor: ‘Deadliest Warrior’
• 3-D gets a C-minus
• Will 3-D summer releases pop out or fall flat?
• 'Sherlock Holmes' sequel could be shot in 3-D
• New This Week: ‘It’s Complicated’
• Popularity of 3-D is affecting how screenplays are written
• The restoration of 'Metropolis'
• Kristin Chenoweth’s dark turn

3-D: Hollywood’s latest hot trend Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT Everybody — from studios to directors to theaters — is jumping on the bandwagon. All this to give filmgoers a “new” experience — and collect an extra $3 to $5 per ticket. Everybody — from studios to directors to theaters — is jumping on the bandwagon. All this to give filmgoers a “new” experience — and collect an extra $3 to $5 per ticket.

The Monitor: ‘Deadliest Warrior’ Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT The Spike series is now in its second season of pitting mayhem-minded combatants of different eras against each other but under lab conditions. Last week, on the second-season premiere of "Deadliest Warrior" (10 p.m. Tuesdays on Spike), a handsome, well-muscled gentleman named Tim stripped off his shirt and took one for history.

3-D gets a C-minus Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:36 PM PDT 3-D compared to 2-D: What do you get for the extra money? Movie patrons and 3-D cheerleader Jeffrey Katzenberg weigh in on 3-D conversions such as ‘Clash of the Titans’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ Did Mt. Olympus forget to pay the power bill?

Will 3-D summer releases pop out or fall flat? Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT John Horn looks at the slate of aspiring blockbusters (and the competition) and handicaps their chances. John Horn looks at the slate of aspiring blockbusters (and the competition) and handicaps their chances.

'Sherlock Holmes' sequel could be shot in 3-D Posted: 24 Apr 2010 10:25 AM PDT As the film moves closer to the development finish line, the conversations about shooting it in 3-D are heating up.

New This Week: ‘It’s Complicated’ Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT Also: ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’; ‘District 13: Ultimatum’; ‘I Love Lucy: The Movie’ Also: "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," "District 13: Ultimatum" and "I Love Lucy: The Movie."

Popularity of 3-D is affecting how screenplays are written Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT Some filmmakers fear the technology will eventually dictate which films are greenlighted. When Matt Pitts, a writer on "Fringe" and a former assistant to J.J. Abrams, recently began shopping his first film script to movie studios, he knew he had a marketable idea on his hands. The title of his screenplay, after all, was " Spring Break Zombie Cruise" and its storyline followed, well, just that.

The restoration of 'Metropolis' Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT A 2002 version of Fritz Lang’s masterwork was thought to be definitive, but then 25 minutes of lost footage turned up in Argentina.

Kristin Chenoweth’s dark turn Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT She is best known for her zany portrayals in ‘Wicked’ and ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.’ But in ‘Promises, Promises,’ she plays a depressed woman who has an affair and attempts suicide. When producers first approached Kristin Chenoweth about playing the female lead in the musical "Promises, Promises," she was hesitant and more than a little worried about taking on the role.

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