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National Geographic set to release film

U2’s concert film ‘U2 3D’ will be released in late January in 3D only in the US.

The film was shot in South America during the band’s ‘Vertigo’ tour and will be released by National Geographic Film Ventures.

The concert film was produced by 3ality Digital and directed by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington.

Owens has been U2’s visual content director for more than 15 years, while Pellington directed the band’s ‘One’ video.

U2’s 3D film set to be released | News | NME.COM

To celebrate the 20th birthday of its landmark album “The Joshua Tree,” U2 is reissuing the set in four different incarnations on Nov. 20 via UMe. The album will be available as a remastered single CD, a 2-CD set, a 2-CD/1-DVD collectible box and a double-vinyl package.

The single-disc will be housed in a jewel case, but the 2-CD set comes in a hard back case. The 2-CD/1-DVD version has a base and lid to accommodate the discs as well as five portfolio prints. Band members have contributed new liner notes for the package.

Of most interest to fans is the inclusion of rare material on the expanded editions. Although details have yet to be announced, “Joshua Tree” demos, alternate versions and B-sides from the period are expected to appear.

The DVD is understood to comprise a July 4, 1987, show at the Paris Hippodrome, as well as the documentary “Outside It’s America.”

Produced by Brian Eno, “The Joshua Tree” shot U2’s commercial fortunes into the stratosphere. The album’s first three tracks were huge singles, with both “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

- Billboard

**EDIT: Here is a run down of the track list as posted on the HMV website:

Disc One
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
3. With Or Without You
4. Bullet The Blue Sky
5. Running To Stand Still
6. Red Hill Mining Town
7. In God’s Country
8. Trip Through Your Wires
9. One Tree Hill
10. Exit
11. Mothers Of The Disappeared

Disc Two
1. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
2. Walk To The Water
3. Spanish Eyes
4. Deep In The Heart
5. Silver And Gold
6. Sweetest Thing
7. Race Against Time
8. Where The Streets Have No Name [Single Edit]
9. Silver And Gold [Sun City Version]
10. Beautiful Ghost / Introduction To Songs Of Experience
11. Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland)
12. Desert Of Our Love
13. Rise Up
14. Drunk Chicken / America

Disc Three - DVD
1. I Will Follow [Live From Paris]
2. Trip Through Your Wires [Live From Paris]
3. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For [Live From Paris]
4. MLK [Live From Paris]
5. Unforgettable Fire [Live From Paris]
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday [Live From Paris]
7. Exit [Live From Paris]
8. In God’s Country [Live From Paris]
9. The Electric Co. [Live From Paris]
10. Bad [Live From Paris]
11. October [Live From Paris]
12. New Year’s Day [Live From Paris]
13. Pride (In The Name Of Love) [Live From Paris]
14. Bullet The Blue Sky [Live From Paris]
15. Running To Stand Still [Live From Paris]
16. With Or Without You [Live From Paris]
17. Party Girl [Live From Paris]
18. ”40” [Live From Paris]
19. Outside It’s America
20. With Or Without You
21. Red Hill Mining Town

Mighty fine, if you ask us!!

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ — U2 will release a DVD version of POPMART LIVE FROM MEXICO CITY on September 18, 2007 through Island Records/Interscope/UMe.

Filmed at the Foro Sol Autodromo in Mexico City on 3rd December 1997, POPMART LIVE FROM MEXICO CITY was directed by David Mallet and first released on video the following year; this is the first time it has been released on DVD.Described as a sci-fi disco supermarket, the POPMART Tour opened in its “spiritual home”, Las Vegas on 25th April 1997. All trash and kitsch, POPMART introduced a giant mirrorball lemon, a 100ft cocktail stick — complete with olive, and the works of Lichtenstein, Warhol and Haring, to a live rock audience: a production experience never quite seen before.

Originally filmed on analogue video, the film has been transferred to a digital format with re-graded and cleaned pictures. Great care has been taken to maintain the original look by simply enhancing it, with an added degree of sharpness and contrast unavailable when originally filmed. The audio has also been re-mastered and mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound.

POPMART LIVE FROM MEXICO CITY will be available in two formats: a Standard 1-disc format containing the concert, and a Special Limited Edition 2-disc format, the 2nd bonus disc containing previously unreleased live audio and video material, including documentaries, a POPMART tour visuals montage, and DVD-ROM extras.

The full DVD track listing is as follows:

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3ality Digital Uses SCRATCH Software for First Real-time Stereoscopic 3D Digital Workflow

“U2 3D” the 3D feature film, rocked this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and 3ality Digital (Burbank, CA) and ASSIMILATE (Saratoga, CA) have teamed to bring the same experience to the IBC 07 audience. A three-song segment of U2 3D, hosted by Steve Schklair, Founder and CEO of 3ality, will be featured in IBC’s Big Screen Programme venue at the RAI Convention Center, September 9 at 19:30 (7:30 pm). 3ality’s stereoscopic 3D technology, coupled with ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® real-time 3D data workflow and DI tool suite (from conform to finish) is bringing audiences a thrilling visual ride, where lead singer Bono reaches out toward the 3D camera and appears to be stepping into the theater. U2 3D is scheduled for release to theaters this year.

Visit ASSIMILATE’s IBC stand 7.909 for a demo of SCRATCH at work.

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Peter J has a review of the Popmart DVD with screen caps from the actual DVD.

You can read a full review by visiting the @U2 forums

The DVD will be released on September 18th 2007. Visit the link below to pre-order.
U2 - PopMart Live from Mexico City (Limited Edition)

A DVD version of ‘PopMart Live From Mexico City’ ? giant mirrorball lemon, cocktail stick plus Haring, Warhol and Lichtenstein - is released on September 10th (except US - date TBC). Everything you need to know here.

Described as a ’sci-fi disco supermarket’, the PopMart Tour opened in its ’spiritual home’, Las Vegas, on 25th April 1997. ‘PopMart Live from Mexico City’ was filmed at the Foro Sol Autodromo in Mexico City in December that year and directed by David Mallet. Filmed on analogue video - and originally released on video in 1998 - for its DVD debut it has been transferred to a digital format with re-graded pictures, remastered audio and mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound.
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U2’s PopMart tour might be remembered more for the band getting temporarily stuck in a giant lemon than anything else. But that won’t stop the Irish quartet from issuing PopMart Live From Mexico City on DVD this summer.

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Rockers U2 are to be the subject of an ambitious new 3-D movie. A new concert movie featuring footage from the Irish supergroup’s most recent South American dates will be the first film to be shot, posted and exhibited entirely in 3-D.

A sneak peek of the untitled film, featuring the group performing SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY, was shown to distributors at the ShoWest Convention in Las Vegas earlier this week (ends16MAR07).

The film will hit 3-D-capable cinemas at the end of 2007.

- ContactMusic 

U2achtung.com have a tip from Universal Music that PopMart: Live from Mexico City will finally get a DVD release this year. The reported date is April 2nd (i.e., April 3rd in N. America) and the DVD is said to come in two formats, a single DVD and a dual DVD, just like last year’s Zoo TV Sydney release.

Here is the topic from u2achtung.com

L’information nous est communiquée par Universal : le DVD du Popmart Live From Mexico City est annoncé pour le mois d’Avril (le lundi 2 vraisemblablement) en version deluxe (2 DVD) et version standard (1 DVD).

Pour mémoire, il s’agit du concert enregistré le 3 décembre 1997 à l’Autodrome de Mexico. Set list : PopMuzik - Mofo - I Will Follow - Gone - Even Better Than The Real Thing - Last Night on Earth - Until the End of the World - New Year’s Day - Pride (In the Name Of Love) - I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - All I Want Is You - Desire - Staring at the Sun - Sunday Bloody Sunday - Bullet the Blue Sky - Please - Where the Streets Have No Name - Lemon (Perfecto mix) - Discothèque - If You Wear That Velvet Dress - With or Without You - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - Mysterious Ways - One - Wake Up Dead Man.

Plus d’informations seront communiquées ultérieurement…

Sure, "The Sweetest Thing" sounds like a good title for a lullaby, but "Sunday, Bloody, Sunday?"

The distance between the arena-rock show and the crib gets a little smaller as U2 will be the latest act to see its back catalog become transformed into baby-friendly lullabies. The album, Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of U2, hits all those kid-friendly record stores next week from Baby Rock Records, the label that’s also brought us lullaby versions of Nirvana, Tool, Radiohead and Coldplay songs, among others.

Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of U2’s track listing is:

Sunday Bloody Sunday
All I Want is You
Beautiful Day
One
With or Without You
I Still Haven’t Found What I Am Looking for
Angel of Harlem
Where the Streets Have No Name
New Year’s Day
Desire
The Sweetest Thing

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