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AEG to release 3D concert films
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 12 November 2009
With the Michael Jackson ‘This Is It’ movie still raking in the cash at the cinema box office, tour promoters AEG, more than anyone, know the value of filming anything and everything that happens around live music events. But imagine if Jacko’s final days, as he worked himself into an early grave, had been caught on film in 3D. The nearly dead king of pop could have moonwalked right out into the cinema.
Well, 3D concert films are AEG’s latest venture. Earlier this year they teamed up with a company called Action 3D to film various US festivals, both AEG promoted events like All Points West and others like Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. And footage from those recordings will now be made available in a movie called ‘In Concert 3D’ which will arrive in US movie theatres next month featuring performances from Dave Matthews Band, Ben Harper & Relentless7 and Gogol Bordello. A Kenny Chesney specific 3D movie will follow next Spring.
AEG is talking to lots of other artists about involvement in future 3D movie projects. I think artists getting hold of footage for their own DVD releases is a sweetener in the deals the promoter is doing with artists on this. But if any of those artists are reading this, please don’t be tempted, you’ll only encourage the making of more 3D films, and we all know that they are all shit.
