DAWN OF THE DEAD is resurrected in 3-D!

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Dawn of the Dead - the great shocking and unsettling original horror movie from George A. Romero is making it's way back to theatres in a suprising new stereoscopic 3-D re-release from In-Three. They are the same production company currently at work in bringing the Star Wars series back in the same format. New Amsterdam Entertainment are the instigators behind the re-release. The treatment is expected to take around a year, with the film possibly back in theatres (hopefully with a large media buzz though that seems unlikely) in 2009. Up until now, only Tim Burton's 2-D animated film A Nightmare Before Christmas has been given this kind of treatment and re-release both in 2006 (grossing $8.6 million!!) and in 2007, with a further re-release expected from Disney this year and next. There are currently just over 1,000 3-D ready digital screens in the U.S. and an awful lot more is expected before the end of the decade as movies like James Cameron's sci-fi spectacular Avatar are relying on more screens being provided for it's huge 3-D release in December 09. Weird as hell choice of film and hardly one that is commercially viable these days you would think but there you go, i'm not the suit in charge. Does anyone else not think that this low budget horror might actually look WORSE in 3-D? (that's not a criticism of the film, I know it sounds like one - but it ain't). Wouldn't it be far cheaper (it can cost $100,000 per minute of film to render a 3-D image) and painless to just re-release it in more theatres anyway during a slow month (January?). Are that many more people really going to venture out to the theatre to see this in a gimmick format?

source - the hollywood reporter