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National Geographic Entertainment Acquires Flying Monsters 3D for Release to Giant Screen and Digital 3-D Cinema
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posted Sep 12, 2010, 19:24
The film uses 3-D and CGI technology to immerse audiences in a prehistoric world inhabited by pterosaurs.
The film uses 3-D and CGI technology to immerse audiences in a prehistoric
world inhabited by pterosaurs.
(Washington) National Geographic Entertainment's Cinema Ventures (NGCV) group
has acquired the film "Flying Monsters 3D," a new adventure from award-winning
Atlantic Productions in association with Sky 3D. The film uses 3-D and CGI technology
to immerse audiences in a prehistoric world inhabited by pterosaurs, flying
vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet that lived alongside dinosaurs.
Produced by filmmaker Anthony Geffen and narrated by veteran filmmaker and renowned
naturalist Sir David Attenborough, the film is scheduled for launch around the
world in 2011.
Applying the same state-of-the-art 3-D CGI technology that was used recently
in "Avatar," "Flying Monsters" also will employ pioneering
scientific techniques that reveal new details about pterosaurs. From discovering
pterosaur embryos that show they might have flown from birth to figuring out
how a creature the size of a giraffe could possibly fly, "Flying Monsters"
will resolve mysteries that have intrigued scientists for more than two centuries.
In fall 2007, NGCV produced and released in 3-D and 2-D "Sea Monsters:
A Prehistoric Adventure," a groundbreaking film that has become one of
the highest grossing giant screen films ever. When it premiered, "Sea Monsters"
was the first original giant screen film to release simultaneously in IMAX and
digital 3-D theaters and had the largest day-and-date release for an original
giant screen film in industry history.
"We have high hopes that 'Flying Monsters' will build on the soaring box
office success of 'Sea Monsters,'" said Mark Katz, president, distribution,
NGCV.
"It's almost as if this animated 3-D technology was created to tell our
story. With a pterosaur's eye-view of a hyper-real prehistoric Earth in 3-D
CGI, our audience will see the challenges of survival, including courtship,
flying and hunting," said Anthony Geffen, who also produced and directed
the recently released and widely praised 35mm and giant screen National Geographic
film "The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest," the dramatic story
of George Mallory's attempt to become the first person to summit Mount Everest.
"3-D is a wonderful way of seeing the world as the pterosaurs did,"
said David Attenborough. "Pterosaurs are the most unlikely of creatures,
but they dominated the skies for millions of years, and now this film will enable
us to fly in 3-D with them, the largest flying creatures the world has ever
known."
"For National Geographic it begins and ends with a compelling story, stunning
visual images and factual accuracy," said Lisa Truitt, president, NGCV.
"'Flying Monsters' is the right movie to push those values while providing
the best 3-D entertainment experience possible for families."
Resources:
www.atlanticproductions.co.uk
www.nationalgeographic.com
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