After the limited release of Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King 3D on theaters in August, Disney just announced a new line-up of remastered classics in 3D set for release on theaters venues in the States starting next year.
It will begin on January 13, 2012 with Beauty and the Beast, the first animated film that was converted in 3D by Disney, thanks mostly because of the CAPS system, as explained before on this very blog.
After that, Pixar’s classics will start to show up with the re-release of 2003 ‘Finding Nemo’ set for September of that same year and Monster’s Inc for January 18, 2013 (which will be a nice companion for the prequel named ‘Monsters University’ that is set also for release that same year, but on June 21)
And last, but not least, The Little Mermaid will get its 3D rerelease on September 13 of 2013.
So there you have it, we have a nice amount of Disney/Pixar goodness coming soon into theaters and they will be a nice present for our younger generations who will have the chance to discover these films, remastered in 3D, of course.
I’ve attached the press release, you can read it after the jump:
After being teased by Disney for 2 years, they finally announced the releases of their dimensionalised animated classics “The Beauty and the Best” and “The Lion King”.
Walt Disney Animation Studios worked on this flicks because these were the firsts of their drawn full features to be all mastered digitally with a program made by Pixar in the eighties (named CAPS). They had all the original animated files on a computer, so it was rather convenient for them to experiment with some new technique to create depth data into these flat pictures, of course, the process was painstaking but from the test footage showed at pasts ShoWest conventions, it worked quite well.
However, instead of releasing these films on theaters, they are going straight to the blu-ray 3D market. I don’t know if this is a smart choice, but at least they are releasing them to the masses..
They are set to be released this fall.
Here’s the full press release after the jump
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