65" 3D flat screen TV's getting cheaper at Costco*

I saw quite a few 3D led TVs at Costco for under $1200.00 this morning. Most were 60" or more, that's a good sign for those who were thing about buying one down the road.
I paid a lot more than that for my Panasonic Plasma 3D TV in 2011.
More and more movies are coming out on Blu-ray 3D everyday and the kids really love their cartoons in 3D.
Here's a list of the most recent 100 3D movies released.


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RowRankTitle (click to view)StudioLifetime Gross / TheatersOpening / TheatersDate
1 82 Rio 2 Fox $75,363,000 3,975 $39,327,869 3,948 4/11/14
2 29 Captain America: The Winter Soldier BV $201,526,000 3,938 $95,023,721 3,938 4/4/14
3 181 Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (IMAX) WB $815,000 37 $188,307 37 4/4/14
4 116 Need for Speed BV $42,362,000 3,115 $17,844,939 3,115 3/14/14
5 65 Mr. Peabody & Sherman Fox $107,183,000 3,951 $32,207,057 3,934 3/7/14
6 66 300: Rise of An Empire WB $105,486,000 3,490 $45,038,460 3,470 3/7/14
7 196 War of the Worlds: Goliath BCMG $13,385 18 $13,385 18 3/7/14
8 180 Stalingrad (2014) Sony $1,013,945 308 $510,846 308 2/28/14
9 140 Pompeii TriS $23,169,033 2,658 $10,340,823 2,658 2/21/14
10 17 The LEGO Movie WB $252,294,000 3,890 $69,050,279 3,775 2/7/14
11 146 I, Frankenstein LGF $19,075,290 2,753 $8,610,441 2,753 1/24/14
12 96 The Nut Job ORF $64,021,000 3,472 $19,423,000 3,427 1/17/14
13 193 American Mustang Vita. $39,097 3 $7,906 1 1/17/14
14 148 The Legend of Hercules LG/S $18,848,538 2,104 $8,868,318 2,104 1/10/14
15 120 47 Ronin Uni. $38,362,475 2,690 $9,910,310 2,689 12/25/13
16 123 Walking with Dinosaurs Fox $36,076,121 3,243 $7,091,938 3,231 12/20/13
17 16 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug WB $258,363,104 3,928 $73,645,197 3,903 12/13/13
18 5 Frozen BV $399,873,000 3,742 $243,390 1 11/22/13
19 27 Thor: The Dark World BV $206,362,140 3,841 $85,737,841 3,841 11/8/13
20 102 Free Birds Rela. $55,750,480 3,736 $15,805,237 3,736 11/1/13
21 13 Gravity WB $273,888,865 3,820 $55,785,112 3,575 10/4/13
22 198 Argento's Dracula 3D IFC $8,139 6 $3,085 6 10/4/13
23 58 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Sony $119,793,567 4,001 $34,017,930 4,001 9/27/13
24 173 Metallica Through the Never PH $3,419,967 589 $1,576,561 305 9/27/13
25 164 Battle of the Year SGem $8,888,355 2,008 $4,603,177 2,008 9/20/13
26 170 Jerusalem NGE $3,695,849 33 n/a - 9/13/13
27 - Dead Before Dawn 3D GVE n/a 10 n/a 10 9/6/13
28 134 One Direction: This is Us TriS $28,873,374 2,735 $15,815,497 2,735 8/30/13
29 76 Planes BV $90,288,712 3,716 $22,232,291 3,702 8/9/13
30 92 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Fox $68,559,554 3,080 $14,401,054 3,031 8/7/13
31 91 The Smurfs 2 Sony $71,017,784 3,867 $17,548,389 3,866 7/31/13
32 52 The Wolverine Fox $132,556,852 3,924 $53,113,752 3,924 7/26/13
33 - Apartment 1303 Grav. n/a - n/a - 7/25/13
34 129 R.I.P.D. Uni. $33,618,855 2,852 $12,691,415 2,852 7/19/13
35 79 Turbo Fox $83,028,128 3,809 $21,312,625 3,806 7/17/13
36 70 Pacific Rim WB $101,802,906 3,285 $37,285,325 3,275 7/12/13
37 7 Despicable Me 2 Uni. $368,061,265 4,003 $83,517,315 3,997 7/3/13
38 - The Lady Assassin AR n/a - n/a - 6/28/13
39 14 Monsters University BV $268,492,764 4,004 $82,429,469 4,004 6/21/13
40 28 World War Z Par. $202,359,711 3,607 $66,411,834 3,607 6/21/13
41 12 Man of Steel WB $291,045,518 4,207 $116,619,362 4,207 6/14/13
42 64 Epic Fox $107,518,682 3,894 $33,531,068 3,882 5/24/13
43 23 Star Trek Into Darkness Par. $228,778,661 3,907 $70,165,559 3,868 5/16/13
44 47 The Great Gatsby (2013) WB $144,840,419 3,550 $50,085,185 3,535 5/10/13
45 4 Iron Man 3 BV $409,013,994 4,253 $174,144,585 4,253 5/3/13
46 190 Storm Surfers 3D XL $117,090 7 $7,299 2 4/26/13
47 57 G.I. Joe: Retaliation Par. $122,523,060 3,734 $40,501,814 3,719 3/28/13
48 35 The Croods Fox $187,168,425 4,065 $43,639,736 4,046 3/22/13
49 22 Oz The Great and Powerful BV $234,911,825 3,912 $79,110,453 3,912 3/8/13
50 95 Jack the Giant Slayer WB (NL) $65,187,603 3,525 $27,202,226 3,525 3/1/13
51 100 Escape From Planet Earth Wein. $57,012,977 3,353 $15,891,055 3,288 2/15/13
52 186 ABCD (Any Body Can Dance) UTV $222,098 25 $95,236 25 2/8/13
53 - Spiders (2013) MNE n/a - n/a - 2/8/13
54 103 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Par. $55,703,475 3,375 $19,690,956 3,372 1/25/13
55 128 Texas Chainsaw 3D LGF $34,341,945 2,659 $21,744,470 2,654 1/4/13
56 157 Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away Par. $12,512,862 840 $2,162,993 840 12/21/12
57 10 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey WB $303,003,568 4,100 $84,617,303 4,045 12/14/12
58 - Delhi Safari AppArt n/a 3 n/a 3 12/7/12
59 55 Life of Pi Fox $124,987,023 2,946 $22,451,514 2,927 11/21/12
60 69 Rise of the Guardians P/DW $103,412,758 3,672 $23,773,465 3,653 11/21/12
61 34 Wreck-It Ralph BV $189,422,889 3,752 $49,038,712 3,752 11/2/12
62 150 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D ORF $17,529,157 2,933 $8,023,036 2,933 10/26/12
63 124 Frankenweenie BV $35,291,068 3,005 $11,412,213 3,005 10/5/12
64 46 Hotel Transylvania Sony $148,313,048 3,375 $42,522,194 3,349 9/28/12
65 156 Dredd LGF $13,414,714 2,557 $6,278,491 2,506 9/21/12
66 117 Resident Evil: Retribution SGem $42,345,531 3,016 $21,052,227 3,012 9/14/12
67 188 Flying Swords of Dragon Gate IM $170,276 15 $95,452 15 8/31/12
68 101 ParaNorman Focus $56,003,051 3,455 $14,087,050 3,429 8/17/12
69 174 Nitro Circus the Movie 3D ArcEnt $3,377,618 800 $1,183,701 800 8/8/12
70 125 Step Up Revolution LG/S $35,074,677 2,606 $11,731,708 2,567 7/27/12
71 192 Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai Trib. $75,688 5 $10,920 2 7/20/12
72 43 Ice Age: Continental Drift Fox $161,321,843 3,886 $46,629,259 3,881 7/13/12
73 135 Katy Perry: Part of Me Par. $25,326,071 2,732 $7,138,266 2,730 7/5/12
74 15 The Amazing Spider-Man Sony $262,030,663 4,318 $62,004,688 4,318 7/3/12
75 21 Brave BV $237,283,207 4,164 $66,323,594 4,164 6/22/12
76 121 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Fox $37,519,139 3,109 $16,306,974 3,108 6/22/12
77 25 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted P/DW $216,391,482 4,263 $60,316,738 4,258 6/8/12
78 54 Prometheus Fox $126,477,084 3,442 $51,050,101 3,396 6/8/12
79 184 Piranha 3DD W/Dim. $376,512 86 $182,237 86 6/1/12
80 38 MIB 3 Sony $179,020,854 4,248 $54,592,779 4,248 5/25/12
81 195 Space Dogs 3D EpicPics $14,408 5 $14,408 5 5/18/12
82 - Dangerous Ishhq Relbig. n/a 25 n/a 25 5/11/12
83 2 Marvel's The Avengers BV $623,357,910 4,349 $207,438,708 4,349 5/4/12
84 131 The Pirates! Band of Misfits Sony $31,051,126 3,358 $11,137,734 3,358 4/27/12
85 154 To the Arctic (IMAX) WB $13,932,599 52 $270,228 50 4/20/12
86 179 Air Racers 3D 3D $1,309,987 10 n/a - 4/6/12
87 77 Wrath of the Titans WB $83,670,083 3,545 $33,457,188 3,545 3/30/12
88 88 John Carter BV $73,078,100 3,749 $30,180,188 3,749 3/9/12
89 26 Dr. Seuss' The Lorax Uni. $214,030,500 3,769 $70,217,070 3,729 3/2/12
90 105 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Sony $51,774,002 3,174 $22,115,334 3,174 2/17/12
91 68 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island WB $103,860,290 3,500 $27,335,363 3,470 2/10/12
92 98 Underworld Awakening SGem $62,321,039 3,078 $25,306,725 3,078 1/20/12
93 141 The Darkest Hour Sum. $21,443,494 2,327 $2,993,519 2,324 12/25/11
94 172 Pina IFC $3,524,826 84 $68,012 3 12/23/11
95 171 Don 2 Relbig. $3,680,306 167 $1,673,921 157 12/22/11
96 81 The Adventures of Tintin Par. $77,591,831 3,087 $9,720,993 3,087 12/21/11
97 86 Hugo Par. $73,864,507 2,608 $11,364,505 1,277 11/23/11
98 107 Arthur Christmas Sony $46,462,469 3,376 $12,068,931 3,376 11/23/11
99 97 Happy Feet Two WB $64,006,466 3,611 $21,237,068 3,606 11/18/11
100 78 Immortals Rela. $83,504,017 3,120 $32,206,425 3,112 11/11/11
TOTAL (All Movies):$19,112,769,911----
AVERAGE (All Movies):$96,529,1412,599$28,008,1212,602
(Wide Releases Only):$18,726,778,567----
AVERAGE
(Wide Releases Only):$116,315,3953,175$35,172,0453,193-
Rows: #1-100, #101-200, #201-207

 

Here are the movies that are being released in the near future.

UPCOMING RELEASES
Title (click to view)StudioRelease Date
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Sony 5/2/14
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return CE 5/9/14
Godzilla (2014) WB 5/16/14
X-Men: Days of Future Past Fox 5/23/14
Maleficent BV 5/30/14
Edge of Tomorrow WB 6/6/14
How to Train Your Dragon 2 Fox 6/13/14
Transformers: Age of Extinction Par. 6/27/14
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Fox 7/11/14
Planes: Fire and Rescue BV 7/18/14
Jupiter Ascending WB 7/18/14
Step Up All In LG/S 7/25/14
Guardians of the Galaxy BV 8/1/14
Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For W/Dim. 8/22/14
The Boxtrolls Focus 9/26/14
Big Hero 6 BV 11/7/14
Home (2014) Fox 11/26/14
The Hobbit: There and Back Again WB 12/17/14
Popeye (2015) Sony 2015
Seventh Son Uni. 2/6/15
The Penguins of Madagascar Fox 3/27/15
Avengers: Age of Ultron BV 5/1/15
Mad Max: Fury Road WB 5/15/15
Tomorrowland BV 5/22/15
B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations Fox 6/5/15
San Andreas WB 6/5/15
Jurassic World Uni. 6/12/15
Inside Out BV 6/19/15
The Fantastic Four Fox 6/19/15
Minions Uni. 7/10/15
Untitled Peter Pan Adventure WB 7/17/15
Everest (2015) Uni. 9/18/15
Hotel Transylvania 2 Sony 9/25/15
The Jungle Book (2015) BV 10/9/15
The Good Dinosaur BV 11/25/15
Star Wars: Episode VII BV 12/18/15
Kung Fu Panda 3 Fox 12/23/15
The Untitled Pets Project Uni. 2/12/16
Untitled Disney Animation (2016) BV 3/4/16
Mumbai Musical (Working Title) Fox 3/18/16
Alice in Wonderland 2 BV 5/27/16
The Amazing Spider-Man 3 Sony 6/10/16
How to Train Your Dragon 3 Fox 6/17/16
Angry Birds Sony 7/1/16
Tarzan (2016) WB 7/1/16
Ice Age 5 Fox 7/15/16
King Arthur (2016) WB 7/22/16
Trolls Fox 11/4/16
Untitled Disney Animation (Nov. 2016) BV 11/23/16
Ferdinand Fox 4/7/17
Untitled Pixar Animation (2017) BV 6/16/17
Untitled Pixar Animation (Nov. 2017) BV 11/22/17
Untitled Disney Animation (2018) BV 3/9/18
Anubis Fox 3/23/18
The Amazing Spider-Man 4 Sony 5/4/18
Untitled Pixar Animation (2018) BV 6/15/18
Untitled Disney Animation (Nov. 2018) BV 11/21/18
Truckers (working title) P/DW TBD
Super Secret Ghost Project (untitled as of yet) P/DW TBD
Stretch Armstrong Rela. TBD
Friday the 13th Part 2 in 3D WB TBD
Halloween 3D W/Dim. TBD
Untitled Henry Selick Film N/A TBD
Invertigo Sony TBD
Me and My Shadow Fox TBD
Untitled Pixar Animation (2016) BV TBD

 

As soon as the Samsung I bought four years ago starts having any issues, in the bedroom it goes and I'll happily buy a 3D TV.

 

No one cares. 3D in the home is dead. 4K is what's happening.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/06/13/why-3-d-tv-has-been-an-epic-failure.aspx

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/145168-3d-tv-is-dead

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/future-looks-flat-for-3d-tv-20130814-2rv1q.html

Even in the case of 4K, I'm not convinced there's a huge audience for it yet. And that you can watch anywhere in your room, no glasses, lying down or sitting up, and while walking around.

Having said that: I saw Dolby's non-glasses 3D TV system at NAB a week or two ago, and it wasn't bad.

 

Are all these movies better in 3D?

 

If the films are designed for 3D yes. I find the glasses are a bit of eyestrain though. Also the picture is darker.

 

Tell my goofy brother that, who is 16 years older than me and I'm 53! I tried to tell him that the 3D craze is over, yet every week he buys more and more titles on blu-ray! The other day he handed me three brand new releases on blu-ray, that are in 3D and while he knows that I have a VT-50 Panasonic plasma 3D TV, I told him that I've never once used the 3D option yet, while watching it and I don't plan to!

3D is the weirdest thing in my opinion, as in my case, I have a brother in his 60's who loves it and evidently thinks that he is re-living his younger days at the drive-in or something and then you have my best friend who won't even THINK about watching a movie in 3D, because he has gotten sick so many times from old 3D movies in the 70's and 80's. I personally have always felt that 3D is a silly concept, good, bad or ugly, on any screen.

Of course, I was a fan of Universal's "Sensurround", so what do I know, right?

 

I, too (like Chris C) have a 3D television that I use exclusively as a standard monitor. I understand the appeal of 3D in a theater but I can't bring myself to feel any enthusiasm for the home 3D experience.

 

Same here. BZync.! I watch films on a 65" LCD (with 3D capability!) and every other whizz-bang feature. Yet I never feel the need to watch a movie in 3-D even if the Blu Ray edition I brought, has also included that feature on one of its multi discs. If we go back to the 50's when 3 -d movies were a 'craze'....... theatrers then used - 2 strong projectors to project the screened image. The audiences wore issused glasses that were 'light poloroid' Seeing some of the murky-lit films today with dark night and forest scenes on a home screen , one becomes incredulous - how it must look through dark 3-D glasses.
What I find surprising is with some DVDs and Blu Ray discs, if one has the time to waste and experiment.... by throwing on, the conversion switch for a 2-D to 3 -=D ' presentation.... sometimes it gives what appears to be a good impression of 3 -D.

 

The one BIG stumbling block with 3-D presented films is a simple one.
The question begging to be asked : "Does the plot keep continually supporting the need for a 3-D image to carry what it is trying to present ?.
Even in the old 50's days , the big problem was "With the 3-D effects... people appearing to jump out of the screen , throw things at the viewer, jab at the audience etc etc etc....how many times could any film use the 3-D trick device -before they starting yawning and thinking it is a sick joke. to cover up a bad plotted film?"

 

3-D rules! Suck it, haters!

 

My new 4k TV came with a pair of active 3D glasses but they're still in the box and likely to stay there for a while. I imagine I'll try a few movies at some point but it was surely not a priority when buying the TV.

Part of the problem is that you can't really watch it in the background as you need the glasses. Trying to do something else while watching would seem to be problematic. Also if you're watching something in 3D everybody has to have the glasses or it's not really watchable. There is no 2D compatibility that I'm aware of.

 

One only has to read the run-down of 3-D films currently available as well as other similar proposed future releases, supplied at the start of this discussion. It amusingly stands as undeniable evidence that Hollywood in this day and age, is only interested in mostly cinematic 3-D gilded garbage, that is sure to appeal to the brain dead and intellectually illiterate..

 

Yes, ALL movies are better in 3D! The depth adds realism that draws the viewer deeper into the story. (notice I worked that word deeper in there?) However, making a film in 3D isn't going to keep a stinker movie with a stinker plot from being a stinker.

Derek

 

Try it, maybe you'll like it! You don't even have to pay extra if you're brother's loaning you 3D blu-rays.

Derek

 

Their mostly interested in cinematic garbage anyway. I actually like some very bad 3-D movies, just so long as they're fun and have fun with 3-D. I think a good movie like HUGO or LIFE OF PI is enhanced by 3-D, but again both of those movies actually have fun with and acknowledge that they're in 3-D. Just adding it to a good or bad movie doesn't help, but actually using it in fun ways can improve a good or a bad 3-D movie. In my opinion, of course.

 

Too bad "Noah" wasn't released in 3D, even if it was poorly converted to 3D the movie would have gained a level of watchability. While the acting was generally not too bad, there was no compelling reason for the movie's existence (yes, I realize that applies to approximately 97.2869% of current movies...except maybe for the "acting was generally not too bad" part).

Not every movie needs 3D, but when it is well thought through and well executed it strongly adds to a compelling movie experience. While, for me at least, if a movie is not that great ("Three Musketeers"), well done 3D, even poorly done 3D, can have me paying exorbitant money for popcorn and coming early for a good seat.

3D at home is a different experience in a way, but I buy, and watch, every 3D blu-ray that makes sense to me. While 3D at home doesn't have the sheer scale of 3D in a theater, it has a crystalline clarity to its Blu-ray depth that can be absolutely stunning.

 

You know, I think it works well in certain extremely controlled situations, and I think 3D is appropriate for a big, sprawling epic film in a huge theater. I can't deny that 3D added a lot to films like Avatar, Hugo, and Gravity, and I wouldn't be surprised if the 3D showings were responsible for at least an extra 25-30% of the box office. Movies like that are spectacles. Everything else... not so much.

And the problem in the home is, if you're a little off-angle, the 3D effect diminishes, the glasses are a drag, the phone rings and you have to get it, people walk around you, the kids are playing with a video game off in the corner, light's spilling in from a window on the right... it's a mess. If you're willing to jump through hoops, it is possible to create an "inner sanctum" inside your house that's basically purpose-built to do one thing -- show movies -- but very few people have the money and inclination to build a home theater from scratch with controlled lighting and 100% of their time and energy focused on the screen. It's not for casual viewing, and I think 90% of most people multitask so much, they're sending texts, they're surfing the web, they're eating a cheeseburger, they're on the phone, all while they're watching a movie or TV show at home. And that's cool -- I understand people have (and sometimes need) these distractions. It's just not ideal for 3D video.

It's stunning if you can overlook how damned dark it is.

 

Perhaps it's my set (a 55 inch Sony LCD), I don't know, the darkness is not my experience in the slightest.

 

How was the set calibrated?

 

While I understand you may well have proper and justified misgivings to my approach, and while due to the limited settings available for 3D use in comparison to settings for 2D use (making 3D viewing less of a calibration issue per se), I'll give you an overview.

I underwent no professional calibration--oh the humanity!

I made use of the "DVE HD Basics" Blu-ray...and over the course of several months made use of my photographic eye (I've worked in both film and digital, starting in, call it, 1965; for a while did my own color darkroom work as well as black and white darkroom work; possess, and use, separate 35mm and 120 roll film scanners; and currently shoot with a Nikon D800) to tweak things to my complete agreement.

No, I wouldn't recommend my approach for many, but I am extremely satisfied with the viewing on my set.

 

Eh, it's still dark. I think there are good reasons why consumer 3D failed so miserably. I think if you can afford to overcome all the limitations, it can work to some degree, but the loss of more than 50% of screen brightness in the glasses (active shutter or polarized) is very hard to overcome. Imax is doing it with double-stacked 2K projectors, so at least they start out with 28fL of brightness, then lose about 2/3 of it in the glasses, but the result is still a picture much darker than a normal theatrical image.

There's no hope for a single home screen, because LCD and plasma can only pump out so much light before they clip. I have no philosophical problem with 3D, and I think it can work well under optimum circumstances. But I don't think the vast number of everyday people can handle it because it requires too much effort: precise viewing position, light controlled, no distractions, etc.

I also see 3D as quickly disappearing from the latest home video monitors. 4K is being pushed real hard, but I'm not convinced that's gonna be a big success, either. At least 4K can sorta/kinda work, provided they come up with a realistic delivery method.

 

Would halo light help?​

 

I think that few movies would actually benefit from 3-D and it's no substitute for story.

 

That's only true if you are viewing on an LCD display. A plasma set with active glasses suffers from almost no light loss at the extreme edges of the viewing angle. The 3D effect does flatten out the farther off axis you get though. This is true in theater viewings as well. The farther forward in the theater you sit, or off-axis you sit, the depth effect diminishes. Sitting farther back, on axis will increase the depth effect.

Nah, it's easy to fix. Place your set in your finished basement, and your lighting problems are much fewer. For 3D viewings, it really helps to turn off the lights. My finished basement came with the house. Your mileage may vary.

Derek