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As Hollywood retrofits mainstream hits *Titanic * and Top Gun as 3-D extravaganzas in the wake of The Lion King 3D's box office victory last weekend, Drafthouse Films is taking another approach and giving a classic stereoscopic B movie some love.
The Austin, Texas-based distribution arm of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema announced Thursday that it had acquired the North American rights to the 1981 in-your-face slugfest Comin' At Ya! 3D and would be sending the film out on the road next year.
Touting the project as "the first fully-restored classic 3-D film," Drafthouse Films has enlisted producer Tom Stern and co-writer/producer/star Tony Anthony to upgrade the movie's original 3-D sequences with contemporary RealD technology.
“In a barrage of flying arrows, snakes and old-school 3-D thrills Comin' At Ya! certainly delivers,” Drafthouse Films director Evan Husney said in a press release. “And matching quintessential '80s-style 3-D with cutting-edge contemporary technology is going to make for the ultimate 3-D experience.”
Comin' At Ya! 3D debuted at Fantastic Fest in September and will play the U.S. in limited re-release in 2012.
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