U2 3-D film opens in cinemas

U2 hits the screen in a larger-than-life way on Wednesday, January 23rd when the new concert film U2 3D opens at 55 IMAX theaters around North America. The movie was shot with state-of-the-art 3-D equipment at several concerts on the South American leg of the Irish quartet's 2005-2006 Vertigo tour. It will subsequently open at more than 400 High-Definition 3-D movie theaters in the coming weeks but, according to the band, will never be shown in a standard, two-dimensional theater. There's no word yet on whether a DVD release is planned.

At the U2 3D premiere at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend, U2 frontman Bono told the audience that "it's kind of horrific" to see himself in 3-D. "It's bad enough on a small screen," he said. "Now you get so see the lard arse 40-foot tall."

Bono also told the premiere crowd that he feels that U2 3D is more than just a concert film: "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."

U2 is currently working on its next album with longtime collaborators Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno for a projected late 2008 release.
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