Weird...this news of the 20th anniversary of AT THE MAX...which was partialy filmed in BERLIN...was announced on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall...(Nov 9)
Now yesterday...we see this article that mentions the Stones and IMAX...Once again...it shows, while the Stones didn't INVENT the IMAX concept...they did make it their own with a slew of others to follow...
20 years later!!!Chesney plans to get close to fans in 'Summer in 3-D'
For each of the past eight years, Kenny Chesney has sold more than 1 million tickets to his concerts. Next year, he hopes to bring that kind of clout to the movie box office.
Following in the footsteps of acts like U2 and the Rolling Stones, the decade's top concert draw will release a 3-D movie next spring.
"I've been trying for years to have the audience closer to me and to have me be closer to them," Chesney says. "With this production, they can't get any closer."
For Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D, more than 20 cameras followed him at summer's stadium concerts in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco and Foxborough, Mass. The film will be released via the Hot Ticket, a Sony Pictures alternative-content division that distributes concerts, theater and sporting events.
Rory Bruer, Sony's head of distribution, says he expects Summer in 3-D to play on at least 750 screens in April. "Kenny's not going to be touring next year," he says. "This is going to be a chance for (fans) to spend some time with Kenny, and I think they're going to enjoy having front-row seats."
The film will feature more than Chesney's stage show. Before his June concert at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field, for example, Chesney took the 3-D cameras to a houseboat on the Ohio River. "We did a 35-minute show with all the tailgaters, right on the water. Unless you're down there, nobody gets to see that."
While Chesney won't mount a full-fledged tour in 2010, he has announced headlining festival appearances at the Bayou Country Superfest in Baton Rouge in May and BamaJam in Enterprise, Ala., in June. A few more could follow.
"I'm still going to do eight to 10 shows," Chesney says. He'll spend the year concentrating on the movie, a new album and his No Shoes Radio online station, as well as his personal life. "I've been giving to one thing for so long, and that's just not OK with me anymore."
He'll perform for the first time since wrapping his 2009 tour at Wednesday's Country Music Association Awards (ABC, 8 p.m. ET/PT), singing his latest single, I'm Alive, with Dave Matthews.
He also could win a record-setting fifth entertainer-of-the-year award. He's tied with Garth Brooks with four wins, but admits he likes the idea of having the record to himself.
"The pressure on me is how I do a better show," Chesney says. "But who wouldn't want to have their name in the history books like that?"
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-11-09-chesney09_ST_N.htm
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