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 type	Motion picture exhibition
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Introduced	June 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 Little	November 4, 2005
Meet the Robinsons	March 30, 2007
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert	February 1, 2008
Bolt	November 21, 2008
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience	February 27, 2009
Up	May 29, 2009
G-Force	July 24, 2009
A Christmas Carol	November 6, 2009
Alice in Wonderland	March 5, 2010
Toy Story 3	June 18, 2010
Tangled	November 24, 2010
Tron: Legacy	December 17, 2010
Mars Needs Moms	March 11, 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	May 20, 2011
Cars 2	June 24, 2011
John Carter	March 9, 2012
Brave	June 22, 2012
Frankenweenie	October 5, 2012
Wreck-It Ralph	November 2, 2012
Oz the Great and Powerful	March 8, 2013
Monsters University	June 21, 2013
Planes	August 9, 2013
Frozen	November 27, 2013
Maleficent	May 30, 2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue	July 18, 2014
Big Hero 6	November 7, 2014
Inside Out	June 19, 2015
The Good Dinosaur	November 25, 2015
The Finest Hours	January 29, 2016
The Jungle Book	April 15, 2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass	May 27, 2016
Finding Dory	June 17, 2016
The BFG	July 1, 2016
Pete's Dragon	August 12, 2016
Moana	November 23, 2016
Beauty and the Beast	March 17, 2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	May 26, 2017
Cars 3	June 16, 2017
Coco	November 22, 2017
A Wrinkle in Time	March 9, 2018
Incredibles 2	June 15, 2018
Ralph Breaks the Internet	November 21, 2018
Dumbo	March 29, 2019
Aladdin	May 24, 2019
Toy Story 4	June 21, 2019
The Lion King	July 19, 2019
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil	October 18, 2019
Frozen II	November 22, 2019
Onward	March 6, 2020
Mulan	August 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 marathon	June 20, 2019
Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009) and Onward (2020) 4 movie marathon	February 29, 2020

Short films

Original releases

Title	Release date	Released with
Working for Peanuts	March 30, 2007	Meet the Robinsons
Tokyo Mater (Pixar Animation Studios)	December 12, 2008	Bolt (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Partly Cloudy	May 29, 2009	Up
Day & Night	June 18, 2010	Toy Story 3
Hawaiian Vacation	June 24, 2011	Cars 2
La Luna	June 22, 2012	Brave
Paperman	November 2, 2012	Wreck-It Ralph
The Blue Umbrella	June 21, 2013	Monsters University
Get a Horse!	November 27, 2013	Frozen
Feast	November 7, 2014	Big Hero 6
Lava	June 19, 2015	Inside Out
Sanjay's Super Team	November 25, 2015	The Good Dinosaur
Piper	June 17, 2016	Finding Dory
Inner Workings	November 23, 2016	Moana
Lou	June 16, 2017	Cars 3
Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Walt Disney Animation Studios)	November 22, 2017	Coco (Pixar Animation Studios)
Bao	June 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 Knack	October 20, 2006	The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D
Tangled Ever After	January 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

See also

• List of 3D films
• 3D film
• Digital cinema
• Digital 3D
• RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, Panavision 3D and XpanD 3D (presentation technologies)

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!

External links

• Disney's Digital Cinema Portal
• Pixar Projection 3D D-Cinema
• "Disney Hatches Chicken Little in Digital 3D" (AWN, October 31, 2005)