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Professional Motion Picture Production and Distribution NEWS
3D Entertainment Summit Expands Speaker Lineup with James Cameron as a Keynote Speaker and Day Two Luncheon Presenter with 3D Visionary, Vince Pace
By Unicomm, LLC
posted Nov 12, 2008, 08:38 |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth Director Eric Brevig & Producer
Charlotte Huggins Open Day One Luncheon
DOLBY, NEC, PACE and SONY Sign On as Event Sponsors
(Milford, Conn) Unicomm LLC, and Bob Dowling,
former Editor in Chief and Publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, announced
the expansion of the 3D Entertainment Summit(TM) which will take place at
the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California, December 1-2, 2008. The
event is the first fully dedicated forum bringing the business of 3D
Entertainment into focus.
Award winning Director and Producer James Cameron will deliver a
special keynote address. Joining Mr. Cameron in discussion will be Vince
Pace who, together with Cameron, developed the revolutionary Fusion Camera
System allowing for the re-emergence of 3D filmmaking and the advancement
of entertainment.
"Stereoscopic 3D is the most exciting evolution in cinema presentation
since color and widescreen," stated James Cameron, Director. "The question
for film-makers is not 'why 3D?,' since the reasons are obvious, at least
to audiences, and the negatives have all been removed. The question should
be 'how do I make 3D a part of my art?'"
"The success of current 3D productions continues to validate that a new
era in entertainment is here," stated Vince Pace, CEO, PACE. "One that
redefines the ultimate experience and advances the future of entertainment
across a wide spectrum of categories - everything from films to music to
sports to advertising will be a part of this revolution."
In addition, Journey to the Center of the Earth Director Eric Brevig
and Producer, Charlotte Huggins will be featured presenters during the Day
One lunch and will be interviewed onstage by David Cohen, Associate Editor
at Variety.
Cameron, Brevig and Huggins will join previously announced keynote
speakers Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief Executive Officer and President of
DreamWorks Animation Inc. and David Hill, A.M., Chairman and CEO, Fox
Sports Television Group.
The 3D Entertainment Summit management also announced that DOLBY, NEC,
PACE and SONY have signed on as Corporate Sponsors. These new sponsors join
3Ality, Avid and REAL D to round out a world-class event that will include
educational demonstrations and networking.
"Tomorrow's new entertainment business models must include 3D," stated
Bob Dowling, the event's Co-Producer. "As the premier business event for 3D
Entertainment we are excited to have these incredible visionaries joining
our program. Never before have so many industry experts been together at
one event to discuss the coming 3D revolution in entertainment."
The Summit will assemble an estimated 300 - 400 executives from a
cross-section of the entertainment industry including film, television,
video gaming, content creation, production, technology and distribution.
From movies and theaters to broadcasting in the home, the 3D
Entertainment Summit will be the first industry event to educate
entertainment executives about content creation, production, and
distribution of this exciting and revolutionary technology. Live
demonstrations of never before seen content screened on both cinema and 3D
television systems will be presented to showcase new production realities
as well as new business opportunities.
Attendees will learn how 3D relates to business practices and will hear
from a dynamic group of leading experts in 3D who will provide actionable,
non-hyped, real and responsible information that will have a positive
impact on the entertainment community.
The unique two-day conference format will contain a mix of general
sessions and panel sessions presented by a host of industry experts and
executives. The highly interactive environment will allow entertainment
professionals to gain practical insight into this technology, market size,
adoption rates, creative and production strategies, talent & licensing
issues, gaining a better sense of how 3D relates to their future.
Additional speakers include: Michael Lewis, Chairman/CEO and
Co-Founder, Real D, Joshua Greer, President and Co-Founder, Real D, Sandy
Climan, CEO, 3Ality Digital, LLC, Steve Schklair, CEO, 3Ality Digital
Systems, John Fithian, President and CEO, NATO, Buzz Hays, Senior Producer,
Sony Pictures Imageworks,Chuck Viane, President of Distribution, Disney
Pictures, Jim Tharp, President of Distribution, Paramount, Motion Picture
Group, Vincent Maza, Solutions Marketing Manager, Avid Technology Inc.,
David Cohen, Associate Editor, Features,Variety, Charlotte Jones, Senior
Analyst, Film and Cinema, Screen Digest, Jeffrey B. Logsdon, Managing
Director, Media & Entertainment, BMO Capital Markets, Marty Shindler, CEO,
The Shindler Perspective, Inc., Peter Cane, Publisher, Box Office Magazine,
Andrew Oliver, Co-Founder & C.T.O., Blitz Games Studios Ltd., Neil
Schneider, President, Meant to Be Seen Andrew Fear, Product Manager, SLI
and Stereoscopic 3D Solutions, NVIDIA Corporation, Alex Ben Block, Show
Business Historian, and Editor-at-Large, The Hollywood Reporter, Chris
Marlowe, Digital Media Consultant, Peter Debruge, Associate Editor,
Features, Variety, John Nicolard, Head of Digital Production, FotoKem
Digital Film Services, Jeff McNall, Cinema Product Manager, Dolby
Laboratories, Inc., Andrew Stucker, Director of Sony Electronics Digital
Cinema Systems
Media partners promoting the event include, Variety and The Los Angeles
Times and LA 411. Supporting media sponsors include Screen Digest,
Boxoffice Magazine, DC Cinema Today, Below the Line, Broadcast Equipment
Guide, Digital Cinema Buyers Guide and Post Production Buyers Guide,
Digital Cinema Report and PR Newswire. Additionally, iHollywoodForum, The
Hollywood Post Alliance, and Meant to Be Seen (mtbs3D.com), the foremost
authority group on consumer S-3D gaming and entertainment have joined as
industry partners to the event.
For more information on the 3D Entertainment Summit, please visit the
event website at http://www.3d-summit.com or call 203-878-2577 x106.
About Bob Dowling and The Bob Dowling Group
For the last 17 years through 2007, Bob Dowling was editor-in-chief and
publisher of The Hollywood Reporter and president of the VNU Business Media
Film and Performing Arts Group.
During Dowling's tenure, The Reporter launched numerous new products,
including the HollywoodReporter.com Web site, e-mail edition, weekly
edition, THR East, Literary Hollywood, Festival de Cannes dailies and the
Oscar Screening Guide, as well as many annual events such as the Women in
Entertainment Power 100 stand-alone issue and its related breakfast event,
the Next Generation ranking of prominent young executives, the Film and TV
Music Conference and the reorganized Key Art Awards.
Dowling recently started his own information and consulting firm, the
Bob Dowling Group, to serve clients looking to navigate the converging
worlds of entertainment and technology, with the 3D Entertainment Summit as
a lead project.
About Unicomm, LLC
Unicomm, LLC is an independent business-to-business communications
company specializing in conceiving and managing trade shows and conferences
in nascent markets.
Unicomm's management team has been responsible for some of the
industry's most successful trade shows and conferences. Unicomm currently
produces the largest series of travel events in the United Sates; the
Adventures in Travel Expo. In addition Unicomm has developed leading events
in the Bio-Technology, Research & Development and Mechanical Engineering,
Human Resources, Transportation and other markets.
The company's "value-added" resources are the intellectual capital of
its people and proprietary business practices. These attributes coupled
with an intense customer centric philosophy combine to deliver world class
events.
http://www.3d-summit.com
Sarah Lally of 3D Entertainment Summit,
+1-203-878-2577, ext. 106, slally [ at ] unicomm [ dot ] org
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