With The Lion King on track to probably make around $100 million at the worldwide box office in its 3D re-release, it's no surprise that every other studio is looking to their back catalog and trying to figure out which classic film they can convert for a quick and extremely profitable re-release. Disney is obviously among them, since they're reaping mad amounts of cash from The Lion King, which is going to wind up being way more profitable for them on a percentage basis than something like Tangled, which made more money but also cost them quite a bit more to produce.
As such, Disney today announced four more 3D re-releases of classic films, to occur over the next couple of years:
- Beauty And The Beast (January 13, 2012)
- Finding Nemo (September 14, 2012)
- Monsters, Inc. (January 18, 2013)
- The Little Mermaid (September 13, 2013)
None of this should come as any big surprise: as much as 3D has become a non-issue for wide-release films, it looks like Disney's strategy of re-releasing films is working for it, adding a bit of juice to the notion of seeing a film in theaters again. Whether or not The Lion King was merely lucky in its timing of release date, not facing much in the way of strong competition in the children's category, remains to be seen, but Disney's choices of release dates here are notable: both January and September are usually relatively dead months in the movie business, filled with films that studios don't have much confidence in. As such, they probably won't be competing with much.
Any other Disney films you'd want to see released in 3D? As much as I dislike the experience of watching films in 3D, I have to admit that I'd probably plunk down 16 bucks to see The Incredibles again if a conversion was a good one.
I might go see Monsters Inc.
Ooo, I want to see Beauty and the Beast.
FUCK OFF!
No Aladdin? This is an outrage.
Beauty and the Beast will be super great and I'll definitely see it and I'll probably see the other ones as well. I still need to see The Lion King though.
I called this one a couple of months ago. I knew Beauty and the Beast was on their 3D-conversion list, but I would have picked Aladdin over The Little Mermaid because of the "escape with the lamp" scene. Still, Finding Nemo and L.M. have lots of multi-plane sequences with schools of fish that could be appealing in 3D. Monsters Inc is obviously cheap advertising for the M.Inc sequel scheduled for release in the summer of 2013.
Much like the video game trend to convert old games to HD and resell them, this is easy money for the studios.
I'll go see the Pixar rereleases.
I will see none of these.
@yoshimitz707 said:
Hell yeah! *fist bump*
I'm all for seeing Finding Nemo and Monsters, Inc. in the theater again.
I might go see Beauty and the Beast or Monsters Inc. but where is Aladin man?
I'd go see:
Those I'd see no doubt. If they can do a good job on movies like Pinocchio and/or Dumbo, I'd totally go see them as well.
I'd rather see them rerelease them in theaters as is. I've never seen most of the classics that came out before the 90s.
The 3D treatment of the boner that priest had in The Little Mermaid could be interesting.
Poor Mike, he can't watch 3D.
They really expect 3D to last until the end of 2013?
i'd rather see Blu ray of Finding Nemo, not a 3D version.
I never saw it on cinemas when it came out in the UK as i had already downloaded a DVD copy of it by the time it hit cinemas over here (Stupid Disney) but if they released it on cinemas again i'd probably go to see it, i adore that film. Pixars best followed, in a close second, by Monsters Inc, which i own on Blu Ray already, so i would maybe not see that in 3D as it already looks awesome in HD.
I saw the Toy Story 1 and 2 re-releases and they looked great. Just awesome 3D depth and none of that stupid shit intentionally flying at the screen just because it's in 3D. I'll probably go see these too.