Disney Digital 3-D is a brand used by the Walt Disney Company to describe three-dimensional films made and released by the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and shown exclusively using digital projection.
Disney Digital 3-D is not a presentation nor a production format or technology. Films advertised as Disney Digital 3-D come from a number of sources, film, digital camera as well as animation software, and can be presented using any digital 3D technology, including RealD, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D and MasterImage 3D. There is no specific handling involved.
Title history[]
The first film was Chicken Little, released in late 2005. For the release, Disney collaborated with Real D to install RealD's 3D digital projection system featuring Christie CP2000 2K DLP projectors along with silver screens for 84 screens in US theaters.
The computer-animated Chicken Little was followed by a re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas on October 20, 2006. Nightmare, a 1993 stop motion movie, was originally shot in 2D on 35 mm film, the 3D version was generated by Industrial Light & Magic from this source using computer technology.
In 2007, Disney re-released Working for Peanuts, a 1953 animated film produced in 3D. It accompanied the theatrical release of the 3D version of Meet the Robinsons.
The first live-action material recorded in digital 3D by Disney was Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, released in 2008. In 2009, G-Force followed, marking the first scripted live-action 3D movie under the Disney Digital 3-D brand (as well as Jerry Bruckheimer's first 3D film).
On May 29, 2009, Disney released Up, the first Disney•Pixar film to be presented in 3D. It was then followed by a 3D double feature re-release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on October 2, 2009, although neither of these films' animation was altered. Subsequent Pixar films, such as Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, were released in Disney Digital 3D.
Two of Disney's traditionally-animated films were reissued with 3D conversions in 2011, The Lion King - released on August 26 internationally and on September 16 in North America - and Beauty and the Beast - limited to 13-day run in September at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles for North America, as well as short runs in New Zealand, Japan, Australia, India and Spain in 2010. These re-releases were supervised by Don Hahn, who produced both films. Beauty and the Beast in 3D received a wider release in 2012.
List of Disney Digital 3D films[]
Feature films[]
Original releases[]
Reissues[]
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Chicken Little | November 4, 2005 |
| Meet the Robinsons | March 30, 2007 |
| Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert | February 1, 2008 |
| Bolt | November 21, 2008 |
| Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience | February 27, 2009 |
| Up | May 29, 2009 |
| G-Force | July 24, 2009 |
| A Christmas Carol | November 6, 2009 |
| Alice in Wonderland | March 5, 2010 |
| Toy Story 3 | June 18, 2010 |
| Tangled | November 24, 2010 |
| Tron: Legacy | December 17, 2010 |
| Mars Needs Moms | March 11, 2011 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | May 20, 2011 |
| Cars 2 | June 24, 2011 |
| John Carter | March 9, 2012 |
| Brave | June 22, 2012 |
| Frankenweenie | October 5, 2012 |
| Wreck-It Ralph | November 2, 2012 |
| Oz the Great and Powerful | March 8, 2013 |
| Monsters University | June 21, 2013 |
| Frozen | November 27, 2013 |
| Maleficent | May 30, 2014 |
| Planes: Fire & Rescue | July 18, 2014 |
| Big Hero 6 | November 7, 2014 |
| Inside Out | June 19, 2015 |
| The Good Dinosaur | November 25, 2015 |
| The Finest Hours | January 29, 2016 |
| Zootopia | March 4, 2016 |
| The Jungle Book | April 15, 2016 |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | May 27, 2016 |
| Finding Dory | June 17, 2016 |
| The BFG | July 1, 2016 |
| Pete's Dragon | August 12, 2016 |
| Moana | November 23, 2016 |
| Beauty and the Beast | March 17, 2017 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | May 26, 2017 |
| Cars 3 | June 16, 2017 |
| Coco | November 22, 2017 |
| A Wrinkle in Time | March 9, 2018 |
| Incredibles 2 | June 15, 2018 |
| Ralph Breaks the Internet | November 21, 2018 |
| Aladdin | May 24, 2019 |
| Toy Story 4 | June 21, 2019 |
| The Lion King | July 19, 2019 |
| Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | October 18, 2019 |
| Frozen II | November 22, 2019 |
| Onward | March 6, 2020 |
| Raya and the Last Dragon | March 5, 2021 |
| Jungle Cruise | July 30, 2021 |
| Encanto | November 24, 2021 |
| Lightyear | June 17, 2022 |
| Strange World | November 23, 2022 |
| Elemental | June 16, 2023 |
| Wish | November 22, 2023 |
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | October 27, 2006 |
| Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999) (double feature) | October 2, 2009 |
| The Lion King (1994) | September 16, 2011 |
| Beauty and the Beast (1991) | January 13, 2012 |
| Finding Nemo (2003) | September 14, 2012 |
| Monsters, Inc. (2001) | December 19, 2012 |
Short films[]
Original releases[]
| Title | Release date | Released with |
|---|---|---|
| Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales: Tokyo Mater | November 21, 2008 | Bolt |
| Partly Cloudy | May 29, 2009 | Up |
| Day & Night | June 18, 2010 | Toy Story 3 |
| Tick Tock Tale | November 24, 2010 | Tangled |
| Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation | June 24, 2011 | Cars 2 |
| Tangled Ever After | January 13, 2012 | Beauty and the Beast 3D |
| La Luna | June 22, 2012 | Brave |
| Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex | September 14, 2012 | Finding Nemo 3D |
| Paperman | November 2, 2012 | Wreck-It Ralph |
| The Blue Umbrella | June 21, 2013 | Monsters University |
| Get a Horse! | November 27, 2013 | Frozen |
| Feast | November 7, 2014 | Big Hero 6 |
| Lava | June 19, 2015 | Inside Out |
| Sanjay's Super Team | November 25, 2015 | The Good Dinosaur |
| Piper | June 17, 2016 | Finding Dory |
| Inner Workings | November 23, 2016 | Moana |
| Lou | June 16, 2017 | Cars 3 |
| Olaf's Frozen Adventure | November 22, 2017 | Coco |
| Bao | June 15, 2018 | Incredibles 2 |
| Playdate with Destiny | March 6, 2020 | Onward |
| Us Again | March 5, 2021 | Raya and the Last Dragon |
Reissues[]
| Title | Release date | Released with |
|---|---|---|
| Knick Knack (1989) | October 20, 2006 | The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D |
| Working for Peanuts (1953) | March 30, 2007 | Meet the Robinsons |
| For the Birds (2000) | December 19, 2012 | Monsters, Inc. 3D |
Released in 3D Outside the United States[]
The following film released theatrically with Disney Digital 3D in selected territories, but only released on Disney+ in the United States and territories where Disney+ available due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Feature films[]
| Title | Disney+ Release date |
|---|---|
| Mulan | September 4, 2020 |
| Soul | December 25, 2020 |
| Luca | June 18, 2021 |
| Turning Red | March 11, 2022 |
Short films[]
| Title | Disney+ Release date | Released with |
|---|---|---|
| Burrow | December 25, 2020 | Soul |
External links[]
- Disney's Digital Cinema Portal
- "Disney Hatches Chicken Little in Digital 3D" (AWN, October 31, 2005)
Disney Digital 3-D on Wikipedia
