DISNEY - PAST PIXAR MOVIES MAY RETURN IN 3D

PAST PIXAR MOVIES MAY RETURN IN 3D

The Walt Disney Company, which once regularly brought back its animated features to the screen every seven years, may do something similar with its nine Pixar films -- except that the reissues will be in 3D, Disney's chief creative officer John Lasseter has hinted in an interview with USA Today. On the eve of the release of Toy Story 1 and 2 as a thetrical 3D double feature on Friday, Lasseter said that his "fingers are crossed" that the previous computer-generated animated features will receive a second life in movie theaters. Ordinarily Disney releases its animated features on home video, withdraws them for several years, then re-releases them again. Lasseter said that "what is most exciting" about the double-feature release of the two Toy Story films "is that a whole new generation of moviegoers can see both films in the way that they are meant to be seen, in a shared audience environment."

01/10/2009