January 18, 200817 yr :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Welcome to mother nature Jups :lol: I thought this was the U2 inc. btw :o Now i see it's a thread about a new release :lol:
January 19, 200817 yr When I went to the REM concert at Loch Lomond there were loads of guys just lining up against a fence doing what nature intended. In full view of everybody. I was rather concerned as my picnic rug was slightly downhill from them all. -_- I feared a wash-out. And not because of the rain. :cry: Men do that all the time in Finland when there´s a big event :wacko:
January 19, 200817 yr Author http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2191 Sundance Premiere Tonight Everyone is arriving at the Sundance Film Festival ready for the premiere of 'U23D' tonight. Last night the audio and visual tech teams were on site at the Eccles Theater to test the systems. In the house were 'U23D' Producer and Executive Audio Producer, John Modell as well as U2’s long-time sound team, Carl Glanville and Robbie Adams, Audio Director, Joe O’Herlihy, VFX Supervisor, Dave Franks, Dolby’s Technical Director Russell Allen, Production Manager Jenny Sireci, and Supervising Producer, Ted Kenney. Why such a big crew for the premiere of a film ? 'We brought all the guys who have worked with the band a long time and Clair Bros who brought a customized sound system to the theater.' explained John Modell. ' We also worked with Dolby who delivered their newest 3D system, which is amazing looking.' It is, he added, 'the most high tech film screening that’s ever been done in history.' U2.Com will be bringing news from Sundance over the weekend. Keep checking in.
January 20, 200817 yr Author http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695245722,00.html By Larry D. Curtis Deseret Morning News Published: Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008 12:03 a.m. MST PARK CITY — In the galaxy of stars that is the Sundance Film Festival, could there be any bigger than the supergroup U2? Despite the international fame, fortune and name recognition, U2, the band, premiered "U23D," the film, Saturday night at an independent film festival. And the scene was as frantic as at any big premiere. Major news outlets lined the red carpet. Fans screamed inside the auditorium, but others were almost as enthusiastic outside waiting for the midnight screening. Rumors had tickets being scalped for more than $1,000. And while anything branded with the U2 label may not seem inherently independent, as the Sundance name generally implies, the 90-minute concert film experience is precisely that. Financed by the group that owns the Baltimore Ravens and made without a distributor, "U23D" promises to raise the bar for both concert films and the 3-D experience, according to the brain trust behind the film, which opens in wide release Jan. 23. It will be screened in both IMAX and digital cinema, giving fans what they hope is an immersive concert experience. "This film is a love song to Latin America," said lead singer Bono from the red carpet. "We love playing for the people there. I really hope it communicates." The documentary was filmed in seven cities but primarily in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during a South American tour with crowds reaching sizes up to 100,000. It features hits such as "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "One," "Vertigo" and "Beautiful Day." "Watching it gives a real perspective of being in the audience at a U2 show," said guitarist The Edge. "So many concert films reduce the band. This one brings scale and grandeur." Because the film was shot with as many as nine digital cameras per show, The Edge felt much more comfortable than during other digital video concerts because the cameras were small and less intrusive, he said. "This technology made it a lot easier." Much of the talk of the film and the 3-D experience is how the technology is taking what viewers expected to be a marketing gimmick and making it into something that is easily viewed and enjoyed by a mass audience. Significant directors like Stephen Spielberg and Peter Jackson are embracing the technology that the crew behind the concert film developed. The film is directed by Catherine Owens. It is her first feature, but the sculptor has a long history with the band and has directed some videos for them and their first four world tours. Sandy Climan, a producer, said Owens' background is apparent in the finished product. "This film is different than any other 3-D film anyone might have seen. People want to dance in this film. People behave like they would if they were seeing them in concert. They hold up their cell phones to the band and dance." He was excited to finally see the film with fans and related his experience when during a screening somebody stood up and blocked his view, which he then realized was part of the film. David Model, an executive producer, tried to sum up Owens' work. "It seems as though Catherine has sculpted a fantastic 3-D film," he said. The team that developed the technology is not done improving and refining the way people experience 3-D films. "Our goal in the end," Model said, "is to shoot live and broadcast live to your home on your TV where you will see it in 3-D without glasses." http://i31.tinypic.com/n6euis.jpg U2 at the premiere --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
January 20, 200817 yr Author http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/moviea...undanceu2_N.htm Sundance screening spotlight: U2 3D By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY PARK CITY, Utah — For once, U2 got to attend a U2 concert. The Irish rock band's new 3-D concert film premiered Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival, drawing thousands to the two late-night showings — including the four musicians — as the theater itself became like a live performance. The event took place in the local high school auditorium, which Bono told the crowd was appropriate, given that U2 started when they were all teenagers. "We are a high school band, after all," he said. U2 3D has state-of-the-art three-dimensional cameras roving throughout performances during the South American leg of the 2006 Vertigo tour. Viewers are plunged into the live performances — sometimes the camera is in the audience, peeking between the heads of other concertgoers, sometimes it's up-close and personal with the musicians, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr., The Edge and Adam Clayton. The crowd at the first screening went with it — singing along, waving glowing cellphones along with the 3-D concertgoers on film and erupting in spontaneous applause as a massive Bono reached out over them to "wipe your tears away" during a rendition of Sunday Bloody Sunday. Among the famous faces in the audience were former Vice President Al Gore, who had his own Sundance debut two years ago with An Inconvenient Truth; he was joined by Truth's Oscar-winning director, Davis Guggenheim, and his wife, actress Elisabeth Shue. Others at the U2 3D screening included Sundance founder Robert Redford, Juno director Jason Reitman, actors Ben Kingsley, Anthony Michael Hall, Woody Harrelson and Randy Quaid. To introduce the movie (which opens in select theaters nationally Wednesday), Bono took off his signature sunglasses and posed with his bandmates wearing the clear 3-D glasses needed to watch the film. Afterward, the band returned to the stage for a Q&A session with directors Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington. Most of the first "questions" were of the "I love you, U2!" variety, and Bono shouted back, "Don't get all deep on us now!" He took umbrage at one question about whether the band would ever do a movie with a "deeper story" rather than a concert film, responding with a curse-word dismissal. He said there is more to the movie than a song-to-song recitation of hits spiced with new technology. "But underneath there is a narrative operating, and I think it runs through social activism … it moves through the ideas that fired up our engines over the years, taking some of those ideas about non-violence and human rights," Bono said, citing a sequence where the U.N.'s Declaration of Human Rights is woven in as the coda to their song Miss Sarajevo. "I think taking the Declaration of Human Rights on the road is hardly a flippant thing to do in the circumstances in this particular country that we're in." The crowd erupted in cheers. Rumors abounded throughout the weekend that the group would perform at a super-secret location after the movie, but it was never going to happen. When an audience member shouted out a request for an impromptu acoustic session, guitarist Edge and bassist Clayton jokingly felt at their heavy winter coats, as if trying to find their instruments. Then they shook their heads, no — and the festivities came to a close.
January 20, 200817 yr Author http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2008...-goofy-glasses/ U2 Can Wear Big Goofy Glasses 50 Cent was not the only must-have ducat. There was a massive crush outside the Eccles Theater at Park High for “U2 3D,” a movie using the latest in 3D film technology to capture a concert in Buenos Aires. The guy next to the Bagger said that he had heard of offers of $1,000 for a $15 ticket. To a movie. The keening and posturing that went on as people tried to make their way inside brought to mind plenty of painful high school lessons about who the cool kids were. Robert Redford was there. Al Gore was there. U2? All four members were there. They entered to a huge, rock concert roar. There was a mad scramble for seats: “Does any one have a single anywhere?” The internationally recognized symbol of a saved seat at Sundance – a bulky parka left to warm the seat – lost salience as people fought to plop down somewhere and put on their specially issued 3D glasses. Bono took the stage briefly with his mates, saying that if the festival was held in Dublin, it would be called “Raindance.” When the lights went down, the crowd looked like a huge auditorium of Bonos, with big, chunky shades. With U2 in attendance, it was a bit surreal. The 3D effects made it look like Bono was in the house, and in fact, he was virtually and physically present. Bono’s patented stagecraft, the dramatic flourishes that have always rung all the way up to the cheap seats, were a little freaky up close. The guitar playing from Edge was cool to watch in any dimension. He used patented sonic effects and strategic strikes to make it look like an instrument that was conjured in the space between angels and demons. People at the Eccles responded in very rock fashion: In one scene where phones were held aloft in the concert, the people watching the movie did the same thing. It was hard, visually, to tell where the movie ended and the people watching the movie began. In a short Q & A afterward, women took the occasional silence to profess their ardor for Bono. But one guy sniffed that it was, after all, just a concert movie with none of the narrative ambitions of say, the Beatles movies. Bono offered up a choice expletive, before gathering himself and saying, “You are telling me that Yellow Submarine has a narrative arc?” :lol:
January 21, 200817 yr :lol: looked like it was a good night. Is hard to imagine how it would be tbh, guess you'd have to be there.
January 21, 200817 yr http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695245722,00.html http://i31.tinypic.com/n6euis.jpg U2 at the premiere -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bono looks kinda old tho... :blink: :o I saw a VIDEO clip of this too -_- Edited January 22, 200817 yr by Queen Sheba
January 21, 200817 yr I think it's them particular glasses that makes Bono looks older do you think they were cold :blink: they didnt take their coats off
January 21, 200817 yr Author Is Sundance Festival not in Colorado or somesuch place? It's probably about -30 degrees there :lol:
January 22, 200817 yr Bono looks older than usually :cry: Edgy and Larry look fine :wub: Adam...well... he´s Adam :teresa:
January 28, 200817 yr Author There's an interview with Adam talking about the new 3D film. On the Official Site. Here- http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2195
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