The Walt Disney Company's Pixar animation studio will release all of its movies in the 3-D format, starting with next year's Up, chief creative officer John Lasseter announced Tuesday.
The announcement was made in New York at a presentation of Disney's lineup of animated films through 2012.
Walt Disney Animation Studios will offer the New Orleans-set musical The Princess And The Frog in the traditional hand-drawn format for release for Christmas next year, he said.
However, Pixar movies will be released in both 3-D and the traditional two-dimensional format, starting with May 2009's Up, about an elderly widower who heads on an adventure in South America.
Coming up from Walt Disney Animation Studios are the November release of Bolt, about a canine actor who thinks that he has superpowers; Rapunzel, a retelling of the fairy tale to be released in Christmas 2010; and King of the Elves, a modern-day fantasy (based on a Philip K. Dick short story about elves who make a man their king) slated for release in Christmas 2012. All three films will be released in both 3-D and 2-D formats.
Future Pixar releases include Toy Story 3 (June 2010); newt (Summer 2011), a love story featuring the last two blue-footed newts alive; Scottish fantasy The Bear and the Bow (Christmas 2011); and Cars 2 (Summer 2012).
Pixar is also ready to re-release Toy Story (1992) and Toy Story 2 (1995) in 3-D.
Lasseter said that three-dimensional photography has fascinated him for decades.
"I love 3-D. I made a 3-D computer-animated short in 1989 called Nickname, and in fact, my wedding pictures with my beautiful wife Nancy were made in 3-D," he said.
In its presentation, Disney showed a 30-minute clip of Wall•E, headed for theaters June 27. It's the love story of the title character, a robot abandoned on Earth for 700 years, and another robot named Eve sent to search for life.
"The population had to abandon Earth for a while, and they left little Wall-E there to clean it up," said Walt Disney Studios chairman Richard Cook.
Meanwhile, the only clue that creators provided for Toy Story 3 is that Andy, the boy who owned the toys, has grown up and is ready to go to college.
Converting movies to 3-D will cost Disney as much as $700 million and take three years.
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