Risk-Free Box Office Grosses: Why Nemo, T-Rex and Indiana Jones Are Returning to a Theater Near You

Studios dig into their libraries for 3D and Imax re-releases

Hollywood is not doing so hot with its new releases, but it’s hoping to find gold elsewhere.

In its vaults. And in today’s higher-ticket-price formats.

Last weekend, five months after Paramount’s 3D Imax re-release of “Titanic,” the studio re-released “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” for a one-week Imax run (Fox handled international).

On Friday, Disney rolls out its third toon adapted for 3D, following “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King”:  the less-than-a-decade-old “Finding Nemo."

More are in the offing from the Mouse House, which has had a long history with regular-format re-releases. It will bring back a 3D “Monsters, Inc.”

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