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Great commercial benefit from Hollywood studios and television producers are betting that Japanese images in three dimensions are the future of entertainment, although a major drawback: the millions of people feel bad to see them.

One in four viewers find it difficult to watch TV or movies in 3D, ophthalmologists say this is because the technology is to produce visual fatigue or because the visually impaired person to perceive the depth of the objects. In the worst case, the images cause dizziness, nausea or headaches.

Researchers have begun to develop devices that aim to solve these problems, but there are years or decades before they reach the market.  This has not stopped the entertainment industry that knows the problem but goes ahead with plans to create more television shows and movies in 3D. Jeff Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation director, says it is “the biggest innovation for the cinema and the audience that has occurred since the color was.”

The theater chains AMC Entertainment and TV manufacturers as Panasonic and others plan to spend over a billion dollars to its facilities or equipment to offer the new technology. Some pay TV channels and broadcast programs in 3D: ESPN Sports announced that its three-dimensional signal transmitted 24 hours a day since February.

Last year there were many people who have paid an additional three dollars or more to watch 3D versions of hit films like “Avatar” and “Toy Story 3″ but it did not lead to a increase in the total turnover was 10 000 600 000, slightly less than in 2009. It was less a movie, but spent more.

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Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows Part 1 film stayed atop the box office despite four new films were released this week.

The fate of Harry Potter has helped the film to stay on top, selling about $ 50.3 million over the weekend, scoring a total of $220.4 million new inmates. New movies Burlesque, a musical film from Sony Pictures Entertainment, drugs other love, a romantic comedy released by Century Fox and Walt Disney tangled, Faster, a thriller from Sony and CBS Films.

However, the new animated movie of Rapunzel’s fairytale hit the second place. Tangled is Disney’s new offering this holiday season, having $49.1 million over the weekend and gathering a cumulative of $69 million since its opening salvo Wednesday.

Despite this holiday season was big business days for the top two movies, studio estimates regarding receipts of the Thanksgiving record fell short compared to the record have been set last year, when The Blind Side and The Twilight Saga: New Moon were released.

In the fourth week of Megamind, a super villain hero animated adventure movie, it took the third place, with $12.9 million. It has total earnings of $130.5 million.

Burlesque a musical movie starring Cristina Aguilera and Cher by Sony Picture Entertainment, a movie about regarding a small-town girl who has a big voice and bigger dreams, is in the fourth place, earning $11.8 million over the weekend and a cumulative of $17.2 million for five days.

“Burlesque movie was certainly a crowd-pleaser, and added that the movie is truly a movie that people will love to see over and over again,” Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution for Sony Said.

Unstoppable, the film thriller Crazy Train by Twentieth Century Fox, earned $11.75 million is in fifth place in its third week. Opening out of the Top five, Love Other Drugs earned $14 million, while Faster with $12 million sales.

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Walt Disney Co. has begun rolling out its plan to encourage the purchase of digital cinema technology to eliminate the barriers that have so far hampered growth.

The Disney studio has silently launched movies online, which allows users to rent or buy digital versions of Disney and Pixar movies and watch them on the internet.

The site was designed as a bridge company transition gentle stream of consumer entertainment of the family of the physical to the digital world. It began in May, without fanfare.

How, without fanfare? Disney does not promote the site further, including the Web address in a sleeve inside the packages of DVD and Blu-ray. Not even a link to it on the main website of the company.

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Discovery Channel is extending its relationship with Steven Spielberg, who’s behind a new animated miniseries for the channel.

Spielberg, DreamWorks TV and DreamWorks Animation are all behind “Future Earth,” which will look at what life on the planet will be like in 25, 50 and 100 years.

Spielberg is already producing the special series “The Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero” for the channel.

In the case of “Future Earth,” Spielberg plans to personally oversee the development.

In a statement, Spielberg said he was “excited to be back in business with DreamWorks Animation,” and said the collaboration with Discovery gives them “an opportunity to bring exciting new experiences to take television audiences into the imagined future of planet Earth.”

According to Discovery Channel president/GM Clark Bunting, “Future Earth” is part of a development deal the channel has struck with Spielberg, DreamWorks TV and DreamWorks Animation on an “array of new nonfiction programs.”

“Future Earth” will utilize futurists, scholars and other “great minds of today” to determine how health and medicine, technology, the environment, the military, the economy and the media evolve.

Miniseries was also announced by DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and DreamWorks TV co-heads Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey.

Discovery announced the miniseries on Thursday at its upfront presentation in New York.

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