List of 8 channel SDDS films explained

This is a list of films encoded in the SDDS sound format with eight channels of sound, rather than the usual six.

The first film to use this format was Last Action Hero (1993),^[1] and the last was Surf's Up (2007).^[2]

1993

• In the Line of Fire
• Last Action Hero
• Rudy

1994

• Blankman
• Immortal Beloved
• Little Big League
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
• The Next Karate Kid

1995

• Bad Boys
• Desperado
• Devil in a Blue Dress
• First Knight
• Hideaway
• Johnny Mnemonic
• Judge Dredd
• Legends of the Fall
• Mortal Kombat
• The Net
• Never Talk to Strangers
• Sense and Sensibility
• Batman Forever

1996

• Alaska
• The English Patient
• The Fan
• Fly Away Home
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Heavy Metal (reissue 8-channel remix)
• Mary Reilly
• Matilda
• Multiplicity
• Mrs. Winterbourne
• Race the Sun
• Screamers
• Twister
• Space Jam
• The Cable Guy

1997

• Addicted to Love
• Air Force One
• Anaconda
• Con Air
• Das Boot: The Director's Cut
• Excess Baggage
• The Fifth Element
• Gattaca
• Ghosts of Mississippi
• Masterminds
• Men In Black
• My Best Friend's Wedding
• Seven Years in Tibet

1998

• Apt Pupil
• The Avengers
• Godzilla
• Les Misérables
• Out of Sight
• The Rugrats Movie
• The Replacement Killers
• The Negotiator
• Armageddon
• Small Soldiers
• Lethal Weapon 4
• Paulie
• Mulan
• Bride of Chucky
• Dennis the Menace Strikes Again
• The Prince of Egypt
• Simon Birch

1999

• Blue Streak
• Crazy in Alabama
• Tarzan
• American Beauty
• The Haunting
• Stuart Little
• Baby Geniuses
• Toy Story 2
• The End of the Affair
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
• Deep Blue Sea
• The Matrix
• Three Kings
• The Insider

2000

• All the Pretty Horses
• Charlie's Angels
• Erin Brockovich
• Finding Forrester
• Girl, Interrupted
• High Fidelity
• Hollow Man
• The Perfect Storm
• The 6th Day
• U-571
• Vertical Limit
• Fantasia 2000
• What Lies Beneath
• Gladiator
• Meet the Parents
• Gun Shy
• Mission to Mars
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
• The Contender
• The Legend of Bagger Vance
• The Cell
• Cast Away
• Unbreakable
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas

2001

• Glitter
• Windtalkers^[3]
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• A Knight's Tale
• Ali^[3]
• Ocean's Eleven
• Pearl Harbor
• See Spot Run
• Shrek
• Osmosis Jones
• Cats & Dogs

2002

• Black Hawk Down
• Rollerball^[3]
• Scooby-Doo
• Solaris
• Spider-Man
• Stuart Little 2
• Men in Black II^[3]
• The Time Machine

2003

• Bad Boys II
• Big Fish
• Intolerable Cruelty^[4]
• Underworld
• Rugrats Go Wild
• Anger Management
• The Jungle Book 2
• Bruce Almighty
• Piglet's Big Movie

2004

• Criminal
• Ocean's Twelve
• Spider-Man 2
• Shrek 2
• Shark Tale
• The Incredibles

2005

• Fun with Dick and Jane
• The Legend of Zorro
• Oliver Twist
• Stealth
• Hitch
• Pooh's Heffalump Movie
• Bewitched
• Chicken Little
• Yours, Mine & Ours
• The Pacifier
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Madagascar
• Valiant

2006

• The Da Vinci Code
• Happy Feet
• Open Season
• RV

2007

• Ghost Rider
• Spider-Man 3
• Surf's Up

References

1. Book: McGee, Marty. February 2001. Encyclopedia of Motion Picture Sound. McFarland & Company. 214. 078641023X. registration.
2. Book: Kerins, Mark. November 23, 2010. Beyond Dolby (Stereo): Cinema in the Digital Sound Age. limited. Indiana University Press. 50. 0253222524.
3. http://www.sdds.com/pdfs/one.pdf “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” Makes History as the First Digital Cinema 8 Channel SDDS Release
4. Not listed on official SDDS list, but credits contain 8-channel SDDS logo.

External links

• Official SDDS list from wayback machine archive