Entertainment Industry Readies for 3D Entertainment Summit Opening September 16-17...

Entertainment Industry Readies for 3D Entertainment Summit Opening September
16-17 at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City
Entertainment Industry's Top Executives to Attend Business Conference Focused
on Discussing 3D Industry's Most Successful Year-To-Date And Rapid Expansion
Into Other Mediums

MILFORD, Conn., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3D Entertainment Summit(TM) in
association with Variety, co-produced by Bob Dowling and Unicomm, LLC, and
presented by The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) @USC announced today
its full speaker list for the 2009 event which will be held at the Hilton Los
Angeles in Universal City September 16 and 17. The two-day conference will
focus on all aspects of 3D business from the theatre to the home. Virtually
all 3D films, consumer technologies and video games will be examined at this
year's 3D Entertainment Summit.

This year's event will open with a keynote discussion between David Cohen,
Features Editor, Daily Variety and Director and Screenwriter Henry Selick and
Academy Award winning Visual Effects Supervisor Brian Van't Hul for the
LAIKA/Focus Features 2009 breakout 3D animated hit film Coraline.

More than 70 speakers will present every aspect of 3D in the entertainment
world from film, television, home entertainment, gaming and alternative
programming. Presenters include:

-- Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief Executive Officer & Director of DreamWorks
Animation SKG.
-- Michael Lewis, Chairman, CEO & Co-founder, RealD
-- Sandy Climan, CEO, 3ality Digital, LLC
-- David Hill, A.M., Chairman & CEO, Fox Sports Television Group
-- Greg Foster, Chairman & President, Filmed Entertainment, IMAX
-- Bob Dowling, Co-Producer & Conference Chairman

-- Peter Bart, Vice President & Editorial Director, Variety

This year's combination of featured keynotes, dynamic panel discussions, 3D
footage previews, and one-on-one interviews will give attendees an
unprecedented snapshot into the future of 3D business. Topics discussed will
focus on a multitude of topics ranging from the financial impact of 3D on the
entertainment industry, the status of the digital cinema roll-out and top
trends in 3D gaming. This year, all aspects of post-production will also be
explored in special panels and workshops. A full list of speakers and panels
can be seen at www.3d-summit.com.

"As JP Morgan just announced new financing of up to 15,000 new 3D screens, we
will have the world's foremost experts and industry visionaries all under one
roof discussing 3D's impact on all aspects of entertainment," said Bob
Dowling, Summit Co-Producer and Conference Chairman. "This year's 3D
Entertainment Summit will provide attendees with the closest look yet into a
sector of the entertainment industry that continues to grow and evolve at a
rapid pace."

This year's 3D Summit confirmed attendance has nearly doubled last year's
inaugural event and include top executives networking from the entertainment,
financial and corporate sectors, representing companies such as AMC, Best Buy,
Deluxe, DIRECTV, Disney Home Entertainment, DreamWorks, Fox Sports, Harkins
Theatres, HBO Home Entertainment, Intel Media & Display Strategic Planning,
International Cinematographers Guild, Kodak, Landmark Theaters, Legend Films,
Lionsgate, Marvel Studios, Mattel Entertainment, Mitsubishi, National
Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NVIDIA, Panasonic
Consumer Electronic, Panavision, Paramount Pictures, Samsung, Sony
Electronics, Sony Pictures, Technicolor Digital Productions, Ubisoft.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Walt
Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Wildfire Motion
Picture Company, Zodiak Entertainment.

"The list of 3D Entertainment Summit attendees is a virtual 'who's who in top
brands and entertainment properties," stated John Golicz, CEO of Unicomm the
event's producer. "We're excited to facilitate the only show dedicated to
this level of 3D discussion and education."

The 3D Entertainment Summit will offer new topics at this year's event
including a discussion dedicated to the technology, techniques and post
production of 3D as well as a panel focusing on the emerging consumer
electronic 3D opportunities for the home. The Summit will showcase
unprecedented movie previews and surprises at its movie studio presentations
that will take place each day.

Sponsors of the 2009 3D Entertainment Summit in association with Variety
include RealD, Sony, 3ality, DreamWorks Animation, IMAX, Panasonic and Virtual
Images. The Los Angeles Times will be the exclusive Newspaper Sponsor and
other media sponsors include Video Business, Twice, DCinema Today, Screen
Digest, ICG, Celluloid Junkie and the S-3D Gaming Alliance The exhibit hall
will include demonstrations from sponsors and other top 3D vendors including
Avid, DDD, Doremi, Harkness Screens I.E. Effects, JVC, Micoy, Nvidia, Paper
Optics, Quantel Sensio, Spatial View, Technicolor andTrioscopics3D.

For more information, visit www.3d-summit.com or contact slally@unicomm.org.

About Unicomm, LLC
Unicomm LLC is an independent business-to-business communications company
specializing in conceiving and managing trade shows and conferences in nascent
markets. Unicomm's management team has been responsible for some of the
industry's most successful trade shows and conferences. In addition to 3D
Entertainment Summit, Unicomm currently produces the largest series of travel
events in the United Sates; the Adventures in Travel Expo(TM), Los Angeles
Times Travel & Adventure Show(TM) and Green Travel Summit(TM). Unicomm has
also developed leading events in the Bio-Technology, Research & Development
and Mechanical Engineering, Human Resources, Transportation and other markets.
The company's "value-added" resources are the intellectual capital of its
people and proprietary business practices. These attributes coupled with an
intense customer centric philosophy combine to deliver world class events.

About Bob Dowling and The Bob Dowling Group
For the last 17 years through 2007, Bob Dowling was editor-in-chief and
publisher of The Hollywood Reporter and president of the VNU Business Media
Film and Performing Arts Group. During Dowling's tenure, The Reporter
launched numerous new products, including the HollywoodReporter.com Web site,
e-mail edition, weekly edition, THR East, Literary Hollywood, Festival de
Cannes dailies and the Oscar Screening Guide, as well as many annual events
such as the Women in Entertainment Power 100 stand-alone issue and its related
breakfast event, the Next Generation ranking of prominent young executives,
the Film and TV Music Conference and the reorganized Key Art Awards. Dowling
recently started his own information and consulting firm, the Bob Dowling
Group, to serve clients looking to navigate the converging worlds of
entertainment and technology, with the 3D Entertainment Summit as a lead
project.

About The Variety Group
Variety is the leading publication for entertainment news, recognized and
respected throughout the world of show business. The Variety Group - Daily
Variety, Daily Variety Gotham, Weekly Variety, Variety.com, Video Business,
Tradeshow Week, LA 411, Variety 411 - are all owned by Reed Business
Information (RBI), the largest business publisher in the U.S. RBI is a member
of the Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE: RUK and ENL)

About the EntertainmentTechnologyCenter @ USC
The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) @ USC, founded in 1993 with the help
of George Lucas, brings together senior executives from the entertainment,
consumer electronics, and technology industries to collaborate on issues
related to the creation, distribution, and consumption of entertainment
content. The ETC studies how technology impacts the next-generation consumer,
and works with member companies to improve the consumer experience and uncover
new revenue streams for entertainment-related products. Current ETC members
include Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount
Pictures, Warner Bros., Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Deluxe Entertainment Services
Group, Lucasfilm, TATA Consultancy Services, Thomson, Dolby, LG Electronics,
Singapore IDA, and Volkswagen of America.

SOURCE 3D Entertainment Summit

Sarah Lally of Unicomm LLC , +1-203-878-2577, slally@unicomm.org