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Source: The Hollywood Reporter

U2 is planning to release its first 3-D concert film next year, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The untitled feature is being directed by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington. In conjunction with the film’s anticipated mid- to late-2007 debut, U2 also might take part in the first live 3-D performance projected in theaters nationwide.

For the film, Owens and Pellington shot more than 700 hours of footage with the band in seven South American cities during February and March. Trekking across Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Brazil, the film’s 3-D director of photography Peter Anderson (“T2 3-D: Battle Across Time”) used nine pairs of Sony Cinealta 950 cameras to capture the band with swooping camera angles and kaleidoscopic imagery. The director of cinematography for the film’s 2-D footage is Tom Krueger.

3ality Digital Entertainment, the project’s producer, put together of the largest assemblages of 3-D camera technology ever used for a single project.

It is expected that the film will screen nationwide using the Real D technology in place by theaters screening the digital 3-D release of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D.