Das erste 3D Skateboard Footage in "X-Games The Movie"

22. April 2009   23:08  -  Johannes Gausepohl

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In den USA ist der Trend zu 3D Kinos mit neuer Technik schwer im kommen. "X-Games The Movie" mit Danny Way undBob Burnquist bringt zum ersten mal, weltweit, Skateboardfootage in 3D auf die Leinwand.

Produziert wird der Film von ESPN und Walt Disney. Gezeigt wird der Film ab 21.August in den 3D Kinos in Amerika.

Wer mehr über diese neue 3D Technik erfahren möchte, sollte Google "befragen".

Hier alle Infos:

First Sports-Based Feature Film in Digital 3D Highlights Action Sports Icons

LOS ANGELES, April 22 – ESPN and Disney will release the first sports-themed 3Dfilm this summer with a special, limited one-week theatrical runstarting August 21. ESPN Films will produce and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures will distribute X Games 3D the Movie nationwide into digital 3D theaters around the country. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Steve Lawrence (Down the Barrel),the film will use groundbreaking digital 3D techniques to immersesports fans into the world of action sports and its top stars. Iconicaction sports personalities chronicled in the film are: Shaun White, Travis Pastrana, Danny Way, Ricky Carmichael and Bob Burnquist.

"ESPN is extremely proud to join Disney in bringing the 3D experience to action sports fans," said Ron Semiao,senior vice president, ESPN Films. "The proximity of the cameras to theaction combined with the amazing performances by the athletes providesa mind-blowing, jaw-dropping storytelling encounter for fans of allages."

Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney StudiosMotion Pictures Group, said, "There is absolutely no sporting eventbetter suited for the Digital 3D medium than X Games. ESPN continues tobreak boundaries by using digital 3D to put sports fans literally inthe center of the action: preparing to launch down the big air rampwith Danny Way, racing downhill on Shaun White'ssnowboard and flying through the air in Travis Pastrana's Rally car.And Disney is proud to add X Games 3D the Movie to its robust, industry-leading slate of 17 other upcoming Disney Digital 3D(TM) releases."

The full-length feature film will capture the drama and spectaclethat play out every year at the X Games events and will also tell thestories of the featured athletes showing the sacrifices they make inpursuit of glory and progressing their sport on the industry's biggeststage.

Featured athletes:

 

  • Shaun White (Skateboard, Snowboard) -Defending X Games Skateboard Vert gold medalist; seven-time Winter XGames Snowboard gold medalist; 2006 Winter Olympic gold medalist
  • Travis Pastrana (Moto X, Rally Car Racing) -Fourteen-time X Games medalist, nine of which are gold, for Moto X andRally Car Racing; X Games 14 Rally Car Racing gold medalist
  • Danny Way(Skateboard) – Four-time X Games Skateboard Big Air gold medalist and pioneer of the Big Air ramp
  • Ricky Carmichael (Moto X) -X Games 13 Moto X Racing gold medalist; 10-time AMA Motocross Champion;five-time AMA Supercross Champion; 102 AMA Motocross/Lites Wins
  • Bob Burnquist (Skateboard) – Four-time X Games Skateboard Vert gold medalist; X Games 13 Big Air gold medalist

ESPN Films

Launched in March 2008, ESPN Films presents qualityscripted and documentary film projects for television and theatricalrelease. Documentaries include the critically acclaimed and PeabodyAward-winning Black Magic (March 2008), The Streak (April 2008), the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival selection The Zen of Bobby V (May 2008),the Sundance and Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival selection Kicking It (September 2008), The Greatest Game Ever Played (December 2008), A Woman Among Boys (December 2008) and the upcoming 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival selection Kobe Doin' Work. Motion picture projects already in development include the untitled Jackie Robinson/Branch Rickey story in collaboration with Wildwood Enterprises and Baldwin/Cohen Productions in which Robert Redford will portray Rickey, and the two recently announced films about the life, struggles and triumphs of Jim Jones Jr.,and the Louis Mulkey story, about a fallen firefighter and high schoolbasketball coach whose team accomplishes extraordinary things in hismemory. In October 2009, ESPN Films will launch a majorinitiative with "30 for 30," a celebration of the last three decades ofsports timed with ESPN's 30th anniversary.

About Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ("WDSMP") is the domesticmarketing and distribution arm of The Walt Disney Studios responsiblefor all aspects of marketing, publicity, advertising, promotion, anddistribution for motion pictures released under the Walt DisneyPictures, Disneynature, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Picturesbanners. WDSMP also leads the industry in digital 3D releases, havingreleased to-date six digital 3D films, and now plans, with X Games 3D the Movie, eighteen upcoming Disney Digital 3D(TM) films, more than all other Studios combined.

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