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Topic: Disney to release 70mm film
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-12-2001 05:24 PM
The announcements I have seen thus far for "Pearl Harbor" show it to be a 2.35:1 release with 35mm Quad Format prints only. I'm not holding my breath for any 70mm prints of the film, even though Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer have the clout to get such a thing done. Overall, I think most filmmakers believe the 70mm thing doesn't really matter. It seems like James Cameron is really the only guy left with any interest in mainstream 70mm 5-perf theatrical presentation. He had to dig into his own pockets for the 10 70mm DTS prints made for "Titanic". Paramount and Fox wouldn't pay for the prints.The even more difficult thing now is the vanishing sites that served 70mm well. Even though the metro Dallas and Oklahoma City areas near me have some 70mm-equipped houses, they are on the order of smaller auditoriums where 70mm blowups from 35mm are not going to offer much of a visual improvement. Those theaters were built before 35mm digital became common, when the only way to have great quality multi-channel sound was by way of expensive mag-coated 70mm Dolby A and SR prints. One of the things I still mourn is the loss of the GCC Northpark Mall 1-2 theater in Dallas. The #1 THX screen was just awesome. Sound and projection quality was always superb. Films like "Crimson Tide," "Apollo 13," "Jurassic Park," "Vertigo" and "Titanic" (the last two of those being 70mm DTS shows) had a great impact by way of that cavernous 1100 seat theater. Films just don't hit you the same way when shown in some 30-plex where many of the theaters have fewer than 100 seats. I had no problem at all driving 200 miles to see a movie at Northpark. Now I drive to Dallas only to do other things (visit relatives, see a ball game, hit Six Flags, etc.) and rarely ever watch any movies there anymore. It seems like the smaller-and-more-of-em trend is just getting worse. Here in Lawton, Dickinson Theaters is opening up a new 12-screen stadium seated site inside Central Mall. The Mall Authority will actually own the theater with Dickinson just being paid to manage the place. 1600 total seats divided up by 12 equals maybe a couple larger screens and a bunch of really small ones. Movie theaters like this are everywhere. It would really be a novel thing if an exhibition circuit could build a new theater in a downtown with 1 or 2 giant screens with 1000+ seating capacity in the same auditorium. Couple that with 70mm projection and the latest sound system gear and you would have the makings of some really great presentation quality.
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