When Robert Zemeckis’s “Beowulf” is released in theaters nationwide on November 16, 2007,
Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures will offer audiences an immersive motion picture experience unlike anything they’ve seen before as the film is presented in REAL D and other large-format 3-D theaters day-and-date with its 35mm release, it was announced today by Jim Tharp, president of Paramount Pictures distribution. When the film is released, REAL D will be in over 1,000 theaters worldwide, mostly in North America, and it is also expected that “Beowulf” will be the largest day-and-date large-format 3-D release of all time.

Robert Zemeckis directs “Beowulf,” a digitally enhanced live-action film from a screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Rogert Avary inspired by the 9th century English epic poem. The film stars Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, and Angelina Jolie.