Variety had a long talk with the people behind the new animated movie Beowulf, in which they discussed the future of making movies in 3D. They not only talk about the fact that more and more movies are being made in 3D, but also the fact that these movies are starting to make more and more money in their 3D runs, sometimes even more than what the 2D versions do. They also go into how this makes things more complicated when you are shooting your movie, but they are very excited about the possibilities 3D gives. "There are a couple technological issues," said Digital effects supervisor Rob Engle to Variety. "One is that the medium we're working in is really delivering two separate movies, one to the left eye and one to the right eye, and so far there is not a delivery means -- Real D, Imax, whatever -- that is perfect in (separating the two pictures), which creates "crosstalk" or "ghosting." "Beowulf" is a really good example of that. Because of the time frame it takes place in, you don't have electric light, so it's a high-contrast movie. Scenes with high contrast are more likely to be objectionable in 3-D. The other issue is that we need people to start thinking about the consequences of the choices they make in 2-D, how they're going to affect the 3-D."
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