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Author Topic: Long film runs Burleigh Ibbott Film Handler Posts: 46 From: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, UK Registered: Jul 2006 posted 06-28-2009 01:52 PM                     I like to know what is the longest run film on a single screen cinema?  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-28-2009 02:01 PM                        Probably some sort special-venue or visitors' center theatre. The longest-running film of any type, anywhere is the one that Colonial Williamsburg shows in its twin theatres in Williamsburg, VA. It has shown continuously since 1957. It was originally shown in Vistavision, but is now 5/70. There must be something similar at a single-screen house.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-28-2009 02:45 PM                        I want to know the longest run print... and its condition.  |  IP: Logged Jean-Marc Toussaint Film Handler Posts: 60 From: Paris, France Registered: May 2008 posted 06-28-2009 05:19 PM                        "Emmanuelle" was sreened at the same cinema in Paris for 553 consecutive weeks between 1974 and 1985.  |  IP: Logged Ray Faultless Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Amington, Tamworth, England Registered: Jun 2001 posted 06-28-2009 05:25 PM                     The Sound of Music five years at the Gaumont Birmingham 70mm on the largest screen in europe at that time, 3 shows daily twice on Sundays.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 06-28-2009 05:37 PM                     I was at Snow Hill Station, just across the road from the site of the Gaumont, yesterday. There's just an office building on the site now, but a slightly less boring looking one than some. The Birmingham Gaumont was supposed to be a very good cinema, but I don't remember it; it had gone before the first time that I visited that part of Birmingham, but the Weslyan Insurance building which replaced it hadn't been built, so the Gaumont probably hadn't been gone for very long. Snow Hill station had also been demolished something like fifteen years previously, and the site was then a car park, though the new station was soon to be built. The land to the North Eastern side of the current station, part of the site of the previous one, is being developed presently, after many years as a car park. Birmingham's changed a lot in recent years, from the nadir that it reached in the early '70s. Last year one of the worst of the remaining buildings, the dreadful Digbeth Coach Station, was finally demolished; even the temporary one which has replaced it while the new one is built on the same site is a major improvement. I'm looking forward to the German Christmas Market which runs from mid-November until 23rd December. The Gaumont is no more, but Birmingham's much better than it was.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-28-2009 09:00 PM                        quote: But what i like to know does anyone know a single screen cinema that shows a film longer than Two weeks bearing in mind the film companies conditions of not sharing a screen with another film? We have done this but it's pretty rare. Here's a list of all the movies we've played three weeks in the last 30 years. These are ranked in order of how many tickets they sold in week 3 with the best at the top. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Spider-Man 3 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers Titanic Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone How the Grinch Stole Christmas The longest we've ever played a movie was 22 days which we did on a few of these titles due to early openings. Upcoming, we had to agree to play the new Potter film for 3 weeks too.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 06-28-2009 09:16 PM                     I did two entire summers of JAWS when it was first released. 4 shows a day. Change-overs. I used to joke that I could probably do all the change-overs with my eyes closed. (I tried it once- - but Im not sure how it looked, since I had my eyes closed! ) I was on a business trip last year and started watching it late at night in my hotel room. First time I'd seen it in at least 20 years. I was dead tired from traveling and I'd start dozing off but every time it started getting close to a cue mark, a bit of aderineline or something would kick in and I'd be wide awake for a few minutes. It was strange! I couldn't beleive that I still remembered the exact cue points after all these years! Apparantly the cue marks are permanantly burned into my brain, or something. . . .  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-28-2009 11:18 PM                     Dang Jim! You and I should had a contest then with long film runs in a changeover house. .. And with me having 6 months of the 1977 "Star Wars" release - 5 shows a day during the summer months and dropping down to 3 shows a day when school was in. Yep, I had the cues memorized where I could do changeovers with my eyes closed (since I had the entire film memorized since I had open ports - no glass and could hear the audio from the movie all the time even with the booth monitor turned off.), and showed some of the staff that I could do such a feat of "blind changeovers.." I actually begin to hate that movie - yes, it was a massive tribute to Americana, but still ...... oh, the boredom due to the routine. And agree - with the DVD release of both trilogies and when I watch the first one..I can still remember where the cue marks would be. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-29-2009 01:01 AM                        Although this isn't any record breaker, we seem to have had Rachel Getting Married for around 5 months or so. It just wouldn't leave. That's the most recent long run I've had. We also had Mama Mia for awhile, maybe 3 to 4 months. We even had a stupid "sing a long" version which was a disaster. People would specifically request the non-sing a long version when buying tickets from what I heard. Fortunately we had a normal version as well. I remember having Star Wars Episode 1 for over 3 or 4 months and when a friend of mine from my old UA days came to the booth, he was amazed at how clean the print was after having run for over 3 months. He said it looked like new. I don't ever remember him visiting me in that booth, but he swears he did and that this conversation took place. Just recently I showed him how to best use Filmguard, which is what sparked his memory, I guess. I think he's in the Bahamas now installing some digiplex.  |  IP: Logged Wayne Keyser Master Film Handler Posts: 272 From: Arlington, Virginia, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 06-29-2009 09:27 PM                     I wish I could be more specific, but I definitely recall DR. ZHIVAGO running for well over a year at the westhampton Theater in Richmond, Virginia.  |  IP: Logged

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