For all the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus fans who missed out on her sold-out concert tour, 2008 will bring the next best thing.
Walt Disney Pictures' 3-D concert film "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" will have a one-week run Feb. 1 through 7. Advance tickets for the limited theatrical release are on sale now.
The film will show here at Showcase Cinemas Pittsburgh North and Showcase Cinemas Pittsburgh West.
The film will be shown in Disney Digital 3-D. Footage was filmed in digital 3-D at three concerts on the recent Hannah/Miley tour. Fans will view the film through 3-D glasses, which they'll get to take home as souvenirs.
"Hannah Montana" is the latest Disney 3-D release: the company started with "Chicken Little" in 2005, followed by the re-release of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Meet the Robinsons" in 3-D. While the earlier releases were limited to a small number of screens nationwide, the box office popularity of these films is giving them wider distribution.
Today's cutting edge 3-D technology is a far cry from the early 3-D features of the 1950s and 1960s. The old films utilized two projected images -- one for each eye. When viewed through 3-D glasses, they presented an illusion of three-dimensional images.
Digital 3-D films are screened with one projector, which shifts between the left eye-right eye images faster than the brain can process the motion. When viewed through 3-D glasses, the result is a rich and realistic three-dimensional environment.
Tickets for the Showcase screenings are available at National Amusements' Web sites (nationalamusements.com) or through the theaters.
For listings of other theaters screening the film, check Disney's Web site, Disney.com/HannahMontana3D.
(Adrian McCoy, Post-Gazette staff writer)
Can't get enough of the Steelers? Neither could Jason Georgiades, whose quest to get the team to run a trick play of his own design is documented in "The Steal Phantom," featured Tuesday at the Film Kitchen.
Georgiades was a University of Pittsburgh junior in 2006 when he tried to present his play to offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt. His story is told in a 65-minute film shot by Trevar Cushing with narration writen by Chet Vincent and cameos from former Steelers Jack Ham and Craig Wolfley and then-defensive back Mike Logan.
Film Kitchen also will screen "Will You Come With Me," a short drama by Andrew Kelemen, Tuesday. Shows start at 8 p.m. after a 7 p.m. reception at Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., North Oakland. Georgiades and Kelemen will be present for Q&As. Admission: $4; 412-316-3342, ext. 178, or www.filmkitchen.org.
Silk Screen, Pittsburgh's Asian-American film festival, is accepting submissions of feature-length narrative films made by or about Asians or Asian Americans for the May 2008 festival. There will be a cash prize for the Best Feature Film, as voted on by the Silk Screen audience.
Deadlines and entry fees: by Dec. 21, $25; by Jan. 18, $35. (The entry fee is waived for submissions from outside North America.) For guidelines, visit silkscreenfestival.org.
First Published: December 7, 2007, 10:00 a.m.
