Disney Digital 3-D

Disney Digital 3-D is a brand name used by The Walt Disney Company to describe three-dimensional films made and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures mostly under the Walt Disney Pictures label and shown exclusively using digital projection.

Disney Digital 3-D
Product typeMotion picture exhibition
OwnerThe Walt Disney Company
IntroducedJune 23, 2005 (2005-06-23)

Disney Digital 3-D in itself is not a presentation or a production format or technology, but rather purely a marketing concept. Films advertised as Disney Digital 3-D come from a number of sources, film, digital camera as well as animation software, and can be presented using any digital 3D technology, including RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D and MasterImage 3D. There is no specific handling involved.

History

Pre-2005 Disney 3-D films

Disney had previously released two 3D animated shorts in 1953, Adventures in Music: Melody, the first American 3D animated short,[1] and Working for Peanuts, starring Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale.

Disney also produced 3D films for its theme parks, including Disneyland's 3D Jamboree (1956), featuring the Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers and including Melody and Working for Peanuts; Magic Journeys (1982), Captain EO (1986), Muppet*Vision 3D (1991), Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (1994), It's Tough to Be a Bug! (1998), the film portion of Tokyo DisneySea's Magic Lamp Theater, and Mickey's PhilharMagic (2003).[2]

Between 2003 and 2005, Dimension Films (then-owned by The Weinstein Company) had made a couple of 3D films. Two of them were Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D.

Post-2005 Disney 3-D films

The first Disney Digital 3D film was Chicken Little, which was released in late 2005.[3] For the release, Disney collaborated with RealD to install RealD's 3D digital projection system featuring Christie CP2000 2K DLP projectors along with silver screens for 84 screens in U.S. theaters.[4]

The computer-animated film Chicken Little was followed by a re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas on October 20, 2006. Nightmare, a 1993 stop-motion film, was originally shot in 2D on 35mm-film with the 3D version generated by Industrial Light and Magic from this source using computer technology.

In 2007, Disney re-released the film Working for Peanuts with the theatrical release of the 3D version of Meet the Robinsons.

The first live-action Disney Digital 3-D release was Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, which followed in 2008. In 2009, G-Force became the first film in Disney Digital 3-D from producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

On May 29, 2009, Disney released Pixar's Up, the first Pixar film to be presented in 3-D. This film was then followed by a 3-D double feature re-release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on October 2, 2009, although neither of these films' animations was altered. Subsequent Pixar films, such as Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, were also released in Disney Digital 3-D.

Two of Disney's traditionally animated films were reissued with 3D conversions in 2011; The Lion King – released on August 26 internationally and on September 16 in North America,[5] and Beauty and the Beast – limited to 13-day run in September at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles for North America, as well as short runs in New Zealand, Japan, Australia, India and Spain in 2010.[6][7] These re-releases were being supervised by Don Hahn, who produced both films. Beauty and the Beast in 3D received a wider release on January 13, 2012. Two more films were reissued in 3D in 2012; Finding Nemo on September 14 and Monsters, Inc. on December 19. The Little Mermaid was going to be re-released in 3D on September 13, 2013, but was cancelled due to the underperformances of the other Disney 3D re-releases until further notice. The 3D version of The Little Mermaid did, however, play for a limited engagement at the El Capitan Theatre from September to October 2013.[8]

Starts 2017, Disney removed the Disney Digital 3D logo from its feature film trailers, then in 2018, following the new deal with IMAX and Dolby Cinema, Disney removed Disney Digital 3D logo from posters. Now Disney Digital 3D logo only appears on its Blu-ray 3D release.

Disney has released films from Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Studios (as 20th Century Fox in 2019) in the 3D format, beginning with The Avengers (2012), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Dark Phoenix (2019), respectively. However, the 3D format was not branded as "Disney."

List of Disney Digital 3-D films

Feature films

Original releases
Title Release date
Chicken LittleNovember 4, 2005
Meet the RobinsonsMarch 30, 2007
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds ConcertFebruary 1, 2008
BoltNovember 21, 2008
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert ExperienceFebruary 27, 2009
UpMay 29, 2009
G-ForceJuly 24, 2009
A Christmas CarolNovember 6, 2009
Alice in WonderlandMarch 5, 2010
Toy Story 3June 18, 2010
TangledNovember 24, 2010
Tron: LegacyDecember 17, 2010
Mars Needs MomsMarch 11, 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger TidesMay 20, 2011
Cars 2June 24, 2011
John CarterMarch 9, 2012
BraveJune 22, 2012
FrankenweenieOctober 5, 2012
Wreck-It RalphNovember 2, 2012
Oz the Great and PowerfulMarch 8, 2013
Monsters UniversityJune 21, 2013
PlanesAugust 9, 2013
FrozenNovember 27, 2013
MaleficentMay 30, 2014
Planes: Fire & RescueJuly 18, 2014
Big Hero 6November 7, 2014
Inside OutJune 19, 2015
The Good DinosaurNovember 25, 2015
The Finest HoursJanuary 29, 2016
The Jungle BookApril 15, 2016
Alice Through the Looking GlassMay 27, 2016
Finding DoryJune 17, 2016
The BFGJuly 1, 2016
Pete's DragonAugust 12, 2016
MoanaNovember 23, 2016
Beauty and the BeastMarch 17, 2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No TalesMay 26, 2017
Cars 3June 16, 2017
CocoNovember 22, 2017
A Wrinkle in TimeMarch 9, 2018
Incredibles 2June 15, 2018
Ralph Breaks the InternetNovember 21, 2018
DumboMarch 29, 2019
AladdinMay 24, 2019
Toy Story 4June 21, 2019
The Lion KingJuly 19, 2019
Maleficent: Mistress of EvilOctober 18, 2019
Frozen IINovember 22, 2019
OnwardMarch 6, 2020
MulanAugust 21 2020

Reissues
Title Release date
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)October 20, 2006
Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999) (double feature)October 2, 2009
The Lion King (1994)September 16, 2011
Beauty and the Beast (1991)January 13, 2012
Finding Nemo (2003)September 14, 2012
Monsters, Inc. (2001)December 19, 2012
Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016) (double feature)June 16, 2016
The Incredibles (2004) and Incredibles 2 (2018) (double feature)June 13, 2018
Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Toy Story 4 (2019) 4 movie marathonJune 20, 2019
Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009) and Onward (2020) 4 movie marathonFebruary 29, 2020

Short films

Original releases
Title Release date Released with
Working for PeanutsMarch 30, 2007
Meet the Robinsons
Tokyo Mater

(Pixar Animation Studios)

 December 12, 2008
Bolt

(Walt Disney Animation Studios)

Partly CloudyMay 29, 2009
Up
Day & NightJune 18, 2010
Toy Story 3
Hawaiian VacationJune 24, 2011
Cars 2
La LunaJune 22, 2012
Brave
PapermanNovember 2, 2012
Wreck-It Ralph
The Blue UmbrellaJune 21, 2013
Monsters University
Get a Horse!November 27, 2013
Frozen
FeastNovember 7, 2014
Big Hero 6
LavaJune 19, 2015
Inside Out
Sanjay's Super TeamNovember 25, 2015
The Good Dinosaur
PiperJune 17, 2016
Finding Dory
Inner WorkingsNovember 23, 2016
Moana
LouJune 16, 2017
Cars 3
Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Walt Disney Animation Studios)November 22, 2017
Coco

(Pixar Animation Studios)

BaoJune 15, 2018
Incredibles 2
Maggie Simpson in Playdate with destiny

(20th Century Animation)

March 6, 2020
Onward

(Pixar Animation Studios)

Reissues
Title Release date Released with
Knick KnackOctober 20, 2006
The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D
Tangled Ever AfterJanuary 13, 2012
Beauty and the Beast 3D
Partysaurus Rex (2012)September 14, 2012
Finding Nemo 3D
For the Birds[9] (2000)December 19, 2012
Monsters, Inc. 3D
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See also

References
  1. "The Original Disney 3-D". MousePlanet. September 16, 2009. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  2. Smith, Dave (August 1, 2012). "Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia supplement" (PDF). The Walt Disney Company. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  3. "The Walt Disney Studios and Dolby Bring Disney Digital 3D(TM) to Selected Theaters Nationwide With CHICKEN LITTLE on Dolby Digital Cinema". PR Newswire. June 27, 2011. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  4. Carolyn Giardina (March 7, 2007). "New dimension at Real D". HollywoodReporter.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved March 12, 2007.
  5. McClintock, Pamela (May 26, 2011). "Disney's 'The Lion King' to Return to Theaters in Digital 3D". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
  6. Stewart, Andrew (August 11, 2011). "'Beauty 3D' to single screen". Variety.com. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
  7. "(3D) Beauty and the Beast at Hoyts Cinemas". Hoyts.com.au. Archived from the original on August 9, 2011. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  8. Oliver Oliveros (August 27, 2013). "Hollywood's El Capitan Will Be the Only Theatre in the World to Screen THE LITTLE MERMAID 3D, 9/13-10/13". Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  9. Tipton, Janelle (December 19, 2012). "Behind the Scenes of 'Monsters, Inc. 3D', 'Oz' Trailer Debut in Theaters". The Walt Disney Company. Retrieved January 7, 2013. With this release, audiences also get to see "For the Birds" the original short that ran with Monsters, Inc., take off in 3D, as well as a brand-new trailer for Disney's March release Oz The Great and Powerful!
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