| Disney Digital 3-D | |
| Currentowner: | The Walt Disney Company |
| Type: | Motion picture exhibition |
Disney Digital 3-D is a brand name used by The Walt Disney Company to describe three-dimensional films made and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures mostly under the Walt Disney Pictures label and shown exclusively using digital projection.
Disney Digital 3-D in itself is not a presentation or a production format or technology, but rather purely a marketing concept. Films advertised as Disney Digital 3-D come from a number of sources, film, digital camera as well as animation software, and can be presented using any digital 3D technology, including RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D and MasterImage 3D. There is no specific handling involved.
Disney had previously released two 3D animated shorts in 1953, Adventures in Music: Melody, the first American 3D animated short,[1] and Working for Peanuts, starring Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale.
Disney also produced 3D films for its theme parks, including Disneyland's 3D Jamboree (1956), featuring the Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers and including Melody and Working for Peanuts; Magic Journeys (1982), Captain EO (1986), Muppet*Vision 3D (1991), Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (1994), It's Tough to Be a Bug! (1998), the film portion of Tokyo DisneySea's Magic Lamp Theater, and Mickey's PhilharMagic (2003).[2]
Between 2003 and 2005, Dimension Films (then-owned by The Walt Disney Company) had made a couple of 3D films. Two of them were and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D.
The first Disney Digital 3-D film was Chicken Little, which was released in late 2005.[3] For the release, Disney collaborated with RealD to install RealD's 3D digital projection system featuring Christie CP2000 2K DLP projectors along with silver screens for 84 screens in U.S. theaters.[4]
The animated film Chicken Little was followed by a re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas on October 20, 2006, a 1993 stop-motion film distributed by Touchstone Pictures, was originally shot in 2D on 35mm-film to digitally remastered with the 3D version generated by Industrial Light and Magic from this source using computer technology.
In 2007, Disney re-released the film Working for Peanuts with the theatrical release of the 3D version of Meet the Robinsons.
The first live-action Disney Digital 3-D release was , which followed in 2008. In 2009, G-Force became the first film in Disney Digital 3-D from producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The 2011 film , also produced by Bruckheimer as well as directed by Rob Marshall, was one of the first big adventure films to shoot in 3D on location in jungles, beaches, and the streets of 18th-century London rather than against green screen or entirely on soundstages.[5]
On May 29, 2009, Disney released Pixar's Up, the first Pixar film to be presented in 3-D. This film was then followed by a 3-D double feature re-release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on October 2, 2009, although neither of these films' animations was altered. Subsequent Pixar films, such as Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, were also released in Disney Digital 3-D.
Two of Disney's traditionally animated films were reissued with 3D conversions in 2011; The Lion King – released on August 26 internationally and on September 16 in North America,[6] and Beauty and the Beast – limited to 13-day run in September at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles for North America, as well as short runs in New Zealand, Japan, Australia, India and Spain in 2010.[7] [8] These re-releases were being supervised by Don Hahn, who produced both films. Beauty and the Beast in 3D received a wider release on January 13, 2012. Two more films were reissued in 3D in 2012; Finding Nemo on September 14 and Monsters, Inc. on December 19. The Little Mermaid was going to be re-released in 3D on September 13, 2013, but was cancelled due to the underperformances of the other Disney 3D re-releases until further notice. The 3D version of The Little Mermaid did, however, play for a limited engagement at the El Capitan Theatre from September to October 2013.[9]
| width=385px | Title | width=125px | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken Little | November 4, 2005 | ||
| Meet the Robinsons | March 30, 2007 | ||
| February 1, 2008 | |||
| Bolt | November 21, 2008 | ||
| February 27, 2009 | |||
| Up | May 29, 2009 | ||
| G-Force | July 24, 2009 | ||
| A Christmas Carol | November 6, 2009 | ||
| Alice in Wonderland | March 5, 2010 | ||
| Toy Story 3 | June 18, 2010 | ||
| Tangled | November 24, 2010 | ||
| December 17, 2010 | |||
| Mars Needs Moms | March 11, 2011 | ||
| May 20, 2011 | |||
| Cars 2 | June 24, 2011 | ||
| John Carter | March 9, 2012 | ||
| Brave | June 22, 2012 | ||
| Frankenweenie | October 5, 2012 | ||
| Secret of the Wings | October 23, 2012 (Blu-ray) | ||
| Wreck-It Ralph | November 2, 2012 | ||
| Oz the Great and Powerful | March 8, 2013 | ||
| Monsters University | June 21, 2013 | ||
| Planes | August 9, 2013 | ||
| Frozen | November 27, 2013 | ||
| The Pirate Fairy | February 13, 2014 (international)[10] April 1, 2014 (Vudu) | ||
| Maleficent | May 30, 2014 | ||
| July 18, 2014 | |||
| Big Hero 6 | November 7, 2014 | ||
| Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast | March 3, 2015 (Vudu) | ||
| Inside Out | June 19, 2015 | ||
| The Good Dinosaur | November 25, 2015 | ||
| The Finest Hours | January 29, 2016 | ||
| Zootopia | March 4, 2016 | ||
| The Jungle Book | April 15, 2016 | ||
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | May 27, 2016 | ||
| Finding Dory | June 17, 2016 | ||
| The BFG | July 1, 2016 | ||
| Pete's Dragon | August 12, 2016 | ||
| Moana | November 23, 2016 | ||
| Beauty and the Beast | March 17, 2017 | ||
| May 26, 2017 | |||
| Cars 3 | June 16, 2017 | ||
| Coco | November 22, 2017 | ||
| A Wrinkle in Time | March 9, 2018 | ||
| Incredibles 2 | June 15, 2018 | ||
| The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | November 2, 2018 | ||
| Ralph Breaks the Internet | November 21, 2018 | ||
| Dumbo | March 29, 2019 | ||
| Aladdin | May 24, 2019 | ||
| Toy Story 4 | June 21, 2019 | ||
| The Lion King | July 19, 2019 | ||
| October 18, 2019 | |||
| Frozen II | November 22, 2019 | ||
| Onward | March 6, 2020 | ||
| Mulan | September 4, 2020 | ||
| Soul | December 25, 2020 (countries without Disney+) | ||
| Raya and the Last Dragon | March 5, 2021 | ||
| Luca | June 18, 2021 (countries without Disney+) | ||
| Jungle Cruise | July 30, 2021 | ||
| Encanto | November 24, 2021 | ||
| Turning Red | March 11, 2022 (countries without Disney+) | ||
| Lightyear | June 17, 2022 | ||
| Wish | November 22, 2023 | ||
| Inside Out 2 | June 14, 2024 |
| Title | Release date | |
|---|---|---|
| The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | October 20, 2006 | |
| Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999) (respectively) | October 2, 2009 | |
| The Lion King (1994) | September 16, 2011 | |
| Beauty and the Beast (1991) | October 4, 2011 (Blu-ray); January 13, 2012 | |
| Finding Nemo (2003) | September 14, 2012 | |
| Monsters, Inc. (2001) | December 19, 2012 | |
| The Little Mermaid (1989) | October 1, 2013 (Blu-ray) | |
| Cars (2006) | October 29, 2013 (Blu-ray) | |
| Ratatouille (2007) | July 16, 2014 (Blu-ray; Region B only) |
| Title | Release date | Released with | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knick Knack | October 20, 2006 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | |
| Working for Peanuts | March 30, 2007 | Meet the Robinsons | |
| Tokyo Mater (Pixar Animation Studios) | December 12, 2008 | Bolt (Walt Disney Animation Studios) | |
| Partly Cloudy | May 29, 2009 | Up | |
| Day & Night | June 18, 2010 | Toy Story 3 | |
| Hawaiian Vacation | June 24, 2011 | Cars 2 | |
| Air Mater | November 1, 2011 | Cars 2 Blu-ray | |
| Tangled Ever After | January 13, 2012 | Beauty and the Beast | |
| La Luna | June 22, 2012 | Brave | |
| Small Fry | July 26, 2012 | Vudu release[11] | |
| Partysaurus Rex | September 14, 2012 | Finding Nemo | |
| Paperman | November 2, 2012 | Wreck-It Ralph | |
| For the Birds | December 19, 2012 | Monsters, Inc. | |
| The Blue Umbrella | June 21, 2013 | Monsters University | |
| Get a Horse! | November 27, 2013 | Frozen | |
| Feast | November 7, 2014 | Big Hero 6 | |
| Lava | June 19, 2015 | Inside Out | |
| Sanjay's Super Team | November 25, 2015 | The Good Dinosaur | |
| Piper | June 17, 2016 | Finding Dory | |
| Inner Workings | November 23, 2016 | Moana | |
| Lou | June 16, 2017 | Cars 3 | |
| Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Walt Disney Animation Studios) | November 22, 2017 | Coco (Pixar) | |
| Bao | June 15, 2018 | Incredibles 2 | |
| Maggie Simpson in Playdate with Destiny (20th Century Animation) | March 6, 2020 | Onward (Pixar) | |
| Burrow | December 25, 2020 (countries without Disney+) | Soul | |
| Us Again | March 5, 2021 | Raya and the Last Dragon | |
| Far from the Tree | November 24, 2021 | Encanto | |
| Carl's Date | June 16, 2023 | Elemental |