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If you want to see the Pacific Rim's giant aliens and robots battle it out in 3D, there's good news. According to Variety, Warner Bros has decide to convert Guillermo del Toro's alien invasion movie to 3D. However, it may be done against del Toro's wishes.

Ridley Scott is shooting his first film in 3-D, and he says he'll always use the multidimensional approach in his future films. The director appeared at Comic-Con via satellite from Iceland, where he is shooting the sci-fi thriller "Prometheus."

George Lucas is set to re-release the six "Star Wars" films in 3-D, beginning in 2012 with one film annually led by "The Phantom Menace."

One of the potentially big movies up for grabs at this year's Cannes Film Festival is a 3D relaunch of the 2000 A.D. character Judge Dredd in a new movie directed by Pete Travis (Vantage Point) from screenplay by Alex Garland (28 Days Later). There was word a few years back that there was a new Judge Dredd movie in development at 20th Century Fox with artist Jock, co-creator of The Losers, being involved in the production art, but with Fox out of the picture, producer Andrew Macdonald's DNA Films has been joined by Indian financier Reliance Big to move the project forward.

Studio says deals sealed with Will Smith and director Barry Sonnenfeld, and Tommy Lee Jones in advanced talks; release date is May 25, 2012.

"Avatar" rang up $3.5 million in domestic boxoffice from 12:01 a.m. Friday performances.

Hundreds of millions of dollars is a lot to spend on a film featuring a bunch of blue aliens -- but that's exactly what Fox Features has done with new 3D sci-fi "Avatar," which the movie studio says is the most expensive production it has ever made.

When James Cameron directed his first 3-D film, “Terminator 2: 3-D,” for Universal Studios theme parks more than a decade ago, the bulky camera equipment made some shots awkward or impossible.

Actress to play town sheriff in Aja's remake -- Elisabeth Shue will topline Dimension Films' "Piranha 3D," which starts shooting in May.