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Avatar Box Office (11 Mar 2010) is $ 2,604,909,022 (in 12 weeks, 28% in the USA, #1 worldwide B.O.)
Alice in Wonderland Box Office (11 Mar 2010) is $ 240,625,356 (in 1 week, 60% in the USA, #306 worldwide B.O.)

Tom's hardware tests 3D monitors

Tom's hardware is known for its hardware tests. Now, they start checking 3D monitors with the new newest 23.6 HD-ready displays—one from Acer and one from Alienware.

EFA masterclass on 3D filmmaking

The upcoming EFA Master Class "Stereoscopic Storytelling - Creating stories and images for 3D film" will take place from 12 to 18 July 2010 in Berlin/Germany.

It will be held by French stereographer Alain Derobe in co-operation with German stereographer Florian Maier and is open for 16 European participants from the fields of film directing, cinematography, set design, editing, script and production.

Short&Sweet 3D night short film call for entries

Short & Sweet is London, UK's only weekly short film evening, and has been running every Monday night for the past four years. S&S would like to officially call for entries to Short & Sweet 3D, a night of stereoscopic short films at The Barbican in London around 15 July 2010.

The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2010.

3D macro with a single lens camera

The ISee3D stereoscopic imaging system is an unique technology adapting the precision

and alignment of a 2 dimensional lens system and using it in such a way to accurately

match the left and right image pairs creating comfortable 3 dimensional images.

The ISee3D (Montreal, Canada) stereoscopic imaging system is an unique technology adapting a single 2 dimensional lens system and using it in such a way to accurately match the left and right image pairs creating comfortable 3D.

254% increase in 3D screens worldwide this year

There are 16,405 digital cinema screens around the world, (+ 86.4% on 2008) and 9000 of them are 3D (+254.5% in one year; +614% in Western Europe).

Hubble 3D

The film has its world premiere on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. in IMAX-3D format, and will be shown at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on 19 March 2010. Filming in space is always a challenge, but especially so for a 3D IMAX production. Because there was not room inside the crew cabin of space shuttle Atlantis, the vehicle carried the IMAX camera in its payload bay, complete with one mile of film. That sounds like a lot, but it's not. The camera only had 8½ minutes of film to capture the 13-day mission. The movie web site is here.