EUROPEAN 3D UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS


HUGO CABRET “I’ve been here since May!” joked a visibly exhausted Martin Scorsese in late-October about the amount of time he has spent in the UK shooting his first 3D feature at Shepperton. Evoking the memory of early French cinema pioneer Georges Mélies, the film promises to unfold on a lavish scale, with producer Graham King recently telling Screen International that production designer Dante Ferretti had “built the Gare Du Nord in the 1930s to scale at Shepperton”. Any film by Scorsese is an event, but the fact one of the key directors to emerge from 1970s US cinema is making his first foray into 3D gives Hugo Cabret a huge anticipation factor. Contact GK Films mleonard@gk-films.com


THE MORTICIAN 3D Billed as “a redemption tale that triumphs kindness over cruelty”, The Mortician 3D is a psychological thriller about a semi-autistic mortician who processes corpses with extreme finesse but is alienated from the outside world. The film aims to use 3D to help the audience enter the mortician’s closed world. Director Gareth Maxwell Roberts was inspired to shoot in 3D after seeing the concert movie U2 3D. “I was absolutely blown away by the way in which I was becoming engaged


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THE NUTCRACKER IN 3D Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Nutcracker was converted into 3D in the post- production phase (PassmoreLab was involved in the conversion). The Russian director had hoped to shoot the $90m project in 3D from the outset but that was not possible because of the added expense to what was already a very big-budget film. While enthusiastic about 3D, Konchalovsky makes it clear the medium should be used sparingly. “3D should be used with caution. It’s a wonderful sensation but you don’t want to give audiences the feeling of vertigo or compromise your artistic integrity by using it in an indiscriminate fashion,” he says. Contact Central Partnership arvanova.irina@centpart.ru


with Bono,” he recalled recently. The goal with The Mortician 3D is less to showcase startling visual effects than to add extra depth and detail to the narrative using 3D. “We worked out what we were trying to do in each scene in terms of emotion and then we mapped that out in 3D,” Roberts explained during a presentation at


TT3D (working title) The Isle of Man’s financing and production outfit CinemaNX is behind TT3D, a film which uses the format to capture the adrenalin-rush excitement of the island’s celebrated TT motorbike races. Producers Steve Christian and Marc Samuelson have recruited acclaimed motorsports and commercials director Richard De Aragues to shoot the feature documentary, which will be released next year through CinemaNX’s theatrical partners, Vue Cinemas. Shot over the summer on the island’s legendary Mountain Circuit, TT3D will trace the riders, rivalries and the Isle of Man’s unique road-racing history. Currently in post, the film was made with two full 3D units, each using twin RED cameras on special rigs. There was also a high-speed unit and a 2D high-def roving camera. The feature documentary also uses footage from the 27 high-definition cameras used by production outfit North One as part of its TV coverage. International sales HanWay Films info@hanwayfilms.com


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London’s 3D-360 industry forum recently. The film is currently in post at Molinare in London. Contact Full Circle Films info@fullcirclefilms.co.uk


PINA Wim Wenders is one of the first major European arthouse directors to work


in 3D. His new film Pina (which is tipped to premiere in Berlin) is about the legendary choreographer Pina Bausch, who died last year. Wenders has been working together with Alain Derobe, one of Europe’s leading stereographers and president of French stereographer’s association UP3D. German facility Pictorion Das Werk provided the post facilities for the film, which was shot on Sony HDC-1500s mounted on 3D rigs created by Derobe. International sales HanWay info@hanwayfilms.com


THE PIRATES! – IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS The second of Aardman’s in- production 3D projects, The Pirates! — In An Adventure With Scientists is a stop-motion film directed by Aardman co-founder Peter Lord and co-directed by Jeff Newitt. The film is a comedy adventure based on two books from the cult Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe, who has also written the screenplay. Contact Aardman Animations arthur.sheriff@aardman.com


POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE 3D Spice World writer Kim Fuller has penned the screenplay for this 3D animated adventure yarn featuring British kids’ favourite postman. A gentle


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