As good as the real thing? U2 concerts go 3-D.(Preview)

Byline: JOHN HORN - Los Angeles Times

CANNES, France - By the time U2 finally climbed up the stairs of the Palais to belt out "Vertigo" and "Where the Streets Have No Name" at the Cannes Film Festival, it was fast approaching 1 a.m.

The late hour didn't keep about 10,000 fans from packing the Croisette and hundreds of photographers perched on ladders, trees and balconies from fighting for shots of the band. The question now is whether a U2 concert movie can generate the same dancing-in-the-streets pandemonium of that early Sunday morning 12-minute concert.

The makers of "U2 3D," as the new concert movie that premiered after U2's brief gig is titled, …