Gitesh Pandya, creator of the movie Web site BoxOfficeGuru.com, notes that "Studios are definitely hoping that the 3-D element will help give moviegoers a reason to leave their flat-screen TVs and go to a movie theater." The financial potential is huge for the studios. The recent release of the "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour" sold $29 million at the box office when it opened on Super Bowl weekend. Although the tickets are a little more expensive than usual, it's easy to justify $15 to enjoy a virtual concert experience than it is to resort to stunts or bankruptcy trying to land such hard-to-get concert tickets. U2 3D -- about the band is another concert film that will be in theaters soon and should command an astounding share of movie-goers this month from its huge fan base.
So what could be better than watching the newest 3-D technology on the bigscreen? How about watching it on an 8-story-high Imax movie screen? Beowulf (Paramount Pictures and Shangri-La Entertainment) was released in November last year in standard 2-D, 3-D and the hyper-powered IMAX 3-D. The 3-D versions accounted for more than 40 percent of the film's box-office earnings and treated moviegoers to the next level in